ArtHouse: Jaya Suberg

ArtHouse: Jaya Suberg

Interesting mixture of ideas and techniques in Jaya Suberg's art.

:-)

10/01/2013

This blank page worries me as if I'd
already said that,
that I am about to say and this would
incur meaninglessness
as if to say "start again"

If we are honest art isn't really
about art at all;
art is about politics and
the fact that you know that,
possibly before I finished

saying it, further implies
politics as if politics
were representations and echoed
a concept of human relationships.
As if we could engage in relating
yet find ourselves askew

from relationships, estranged
from reality.  Facebook was created
to enable the world to keep in touch,
but we could already do that through
various simulations of relating.

Invariably strange, Facebook touches
the senses but keeps very few in touch,
to sense one another becomes
insoluble.  Distance is the key
to fiscal simulacra, distance

if only a representation of something
that lies between things and is measurable
by representations that evoke and
represent emotions.

No longer a blank page
this page instills a feeling
of purposelessness; which is the
Internet its incredible
imbalance with

a much more productive
real life
despite economic malaise.  Poetically
speaking, cliche and plain
language

are far more rewarding than
flowery prose that
evokes an impression of confidence
Entre nous
I've resisted lingua franca to

evoke clarity
so the reader can just "get it"
without tackling disparate metaphors
but I can't promise I won't
return to conventional poesy

to evoke optimism a la
histoire.  Really, this
isn't a poem at all
as poetry is something
we used to do

so this is a collection
of ideas in written form
text art I s'ppose
other than literature
and connected Western connotations of




 

Dark Ages 1

Dark Ages 1, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Abstract Digital Art influenced by art created during the Dark Ages. :-)

Simon

crescentsi's photostream

crescentsi's photostream on Flickr.

Digital Art, Art and photography by Simon Harris (aka Crescent).

Jejune....
A very apt word 
starved of culture(s) perhaps?

Alien, distance du loin
a la mecredi (rouge et jaune)
money (Tuesday)

an entity, entirety
a misanthropic recluse par
an advertisement
hanging from a ceiling
as money changed hands 4
Excalibur (Friday)

(symmetry, arabesque attitude)
para (envision) re: leverage
in the great church to
high capitalism (Sunday)

A paean for (several meanings here)
a pastiche of simulacra
(referring to pathos)
you, an aloof creature....  (Dark Ages 4 lundi)

(Friday 28th December 2012)
Networking is symptomatic
of a lack of opportunity and
distance metaphorical and
/or actual entre nous (recherche encore)
faux faux-political correctness
compassion (fear of libel) ((money))
elicit illicit elicit illicit elicit illicit

The reason(s) le pourquoi et le
comment is everything must
be this way that is,
the rhyme the reason, the spirit,
the practicality and the materiality
of it

that is here to stay
but in
terminal flux.

Dogma one suspects
a filigree, Oriental influence a
bricolage of Eastern cultures
and with this, by
displacement
an avant-garde for the West

Trade for the East.  The Cutty Sark
perched historical
at Greenwich (Samedi)

in a media frenzy we
are fucked by our lack
of proximity to
the real (i)
ty disposition

impermeable (instigate)
(ii) conscious of solipsism
(January 1st 2013)

 

High Finances

High Finances, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Digital art from a photo of Canary Warf, London

Simon

Pliable Surface

Pliable Surface, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Thanks again to Julie!

xstockx.deviantart.com

:-)

Simon

Post (your) Memoir

Post (your) Memoir, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
September 2012, UK

This isn't just a landscape, it's an impression of a landscape. However, the line between subjective representation and "realism" is very fine. Essentially, an expression of topography as subjective experience, here I hope to reveal the potential of the land as a metaphor for mental comprehension. I use the word mental, rather than "psyche" or "psychological" as these words clutter perception with multifarious ideas.

I don't want to spew art-bollocks as this can be pretentious, derogatory to the audience/viewer and can inhibit the potency of an art work. Nevertheless, I wanted to point out the conceptual aspects of the work as they may not be immediately apprehendable, particularly when one considers the "random" nature of viewing art work on the Internet.

The title "Post (your) Memoir" is a nod to literary and philosophical conceptions of Postmodern culture(s). I spent approx. 3 years on Trace Online Writing Centre based at Leceister University, where I moved from literature to dance and photography/digital art. "Post Memoir" reflects both Baudrillard's theory of "the end of history" and the notion of the "death of the author", where the author (or other creative) becomes less important or redundant in the creation of literature/art. The land is also a vital component of cultural identity. Even in today's artificial times we experience the potency of the land in virtually every task that we undertake. The cultural (and mental) significance of the land is no accident! One can also "post their memoir" or other interpretation of this art-work, in a seemingly abitrary manner, that reveals the process of creating art at the helm of my motivations for photographing and editing a photogragh of a not unusual field, lying ploughed and fallow in central England.

Simon

Phoenix Rising

Phoenix Rising, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
This really was a labour of love! Julie's pose is great and can lend its self to many variations of photo editing. I used an old texture I had created 3 or 4 years ago and used depth maps and distortion to create flame-like effects. Press "L" to view on black - looks better! :-)

Thank you to Julie for letting me use her photo in this image :-)

Simon

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Canary Warf 3

Canary Warf 3, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Simon

Portent

Portent, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Thank you to Julie Brocklehurst for letting me use her photo in this picture.

:-)
Simon

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Illicit Editing

Illicit Editing, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Thanx to Julie for letting me use her photo in this picture!

:-)
Simon

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Disintegration Point

Disintegration Point, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
HDR editing and 3D effects on a photo by XstockX (Julie Brocklehurst).

:-)
Simon

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Anatomical Reflections

Anatomical Reflections, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
HDR processing, using a photo by Julie (XstockX) and an abstract background I created.

Simon

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Wind Swept Landscape

Wind Swept Landscape, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
This shouldn't be! I mean, Winter in Summer, Summer in Winter..... Should it? Winter is back in June, or should that be Autumn? Summer curtailed, perhaps or interupted by Northerlies and Easterlies, I mean Winter coats and winter caps, umbrellas and boots in June!
The landscape hasn't suffered though; more dramatic for Autumnal winds, lightning and Continental rainfall; darkness at 4PM and cars surging into pools of water and crashing into one another; the splay of car lights and a swollen Moon like fairground rides twisting in high winds.
The recession bites as Europe riles under artificial, fiscal mechanisms and the distraction of Euro 2012, tennis tournaments, the Queen's Jubilee and, to come the pinnacle of all events, the Olympics! The weather has no remorse nor empathy! Queen Elizabeth was sodden on the Thames but not relinquished! Even in the Ukraine footballers were hurried from the turf, evacuated from rude, electrical storms.... Is all of Europe being blasted by Winter in June? Perhaps us Brits can take some cold and sodden comfort from a continent in meterological turmoil. Perhaps another welcome distraction for politicians, Europe-wide, from another turmoil, yet more chaotic and blunt! Still, we shouldn't knock these "distractions", the arts and sport are noble where politics and business are weak and lacking pragmatism and courage. The Ancient Greeks knew this way before us and fortunately, we retain their intellectual and rich culture that may even protect us from that, that we have no control over whatsoever at all? The savage weather, or could these be thunderbolts from Zeus?




A colourful interpretation of a Windy Summer in UK!
:-)
Simon (Words and Art)