Artistic Measurements

  Photo Credit: Assortment of rulers and measurement tools by Peng, uploaded May 15, 2005: Peng/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY SA 3.0 “Our personal measurement systems are twisted and biased; they’re based on a convoluted collection of expectations we’ve absorbed over our lifetimes” (Romaner, 105) This weekend, I had to deal with rejection, that is, artistic rejection. …

Permissible Art

Photo Credit: Portrait of Hassan Sabbah - Líder dos Assassinos: Lab~commonswiki/Wikimedia Commons/PD Old “Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” – Hassan Sabbah (Taylor) In an interview with award-winning writer William T. Vollmann, Vollmann discusses this maxim of Hassan Sabbah, known as king of the political assassins in ancient Persia in the context of art. In …

Big “T” Truth, Little “t” truth

Photo Credit: Rainbow letter “T”, upper and lower case, posted 2015: Zipnon/Pixabay/CC0 1.0 “The individual is the only reality.” (Jung, Part 1, location 778) When I was in grad school, one of the first courses I took as an English major was an introduction to postmodernist literature. On the timeline of literary movements, this made …