In this blog we will share with you our vision of beauty, balance, harmony.

As Mark Leach writes in his book Raw Colour with Pastels: “Sound is all around us, and it is musicians who refine that sound into something of beauty. As a painter, I have always felt that my purpose is to craft colour in a similar way, to see through the confusion and seek harmony and beauty.”

And we add: Words, fragments of sentences, spoken noise is all around us, and Ken arranges words in such a way as to capture beauty in the accidental, the ambient soundtrack of life.

Sunday, December 16, 2018

About a dark, dark forest and the YouTube Wars



Schwarzwald - Black Forest 70 x 100 cm / 27.6 x 39.4 in - acrylic on brown Craft paper





SAM & JORDAN: THE YOU TUBE WARS

First we should dress them:
Sam the rationalist in a lab coat,
one suitable for meditation in caves
and day hikes in the Sierras. And panel discussions.

I can’t say whether Jordan would look better in velvet
robes with astrological symbols
and Jungian archetypes on their sleeves
but I’m convinced he’d go for it in a heartbeat.

Sam can’t seem to grasp that most people are
dumb and/or incurious. That they are seeking
not the “truth” but an interesting shopping
mall to hang out in: the kids are bored
and hungry and hot, and Jade wants a new pair of shoes
badly. And what do you want? Do you know what you want, sir?

Sam wants to fill the Void with fact based values.
Jordan, with mythological archetypes, and God.
How else do you stop people
pillaging liquor stores, raping each other,
stealing all that isn’t nailed down or guarded by “security professionals?”

Sam is never emotional unless you call being annoyed emotional.
Mildly annoyed. Jordan can weep in an instant. Surrogate daddy
to millions of 25-to-30 year old boys who are not getting enough.
Enough pussy. Enough respect.
Bongs and skateboards must be wrested from
their flailing, immature hands, sordid instruments of masturbation.

Sam gives a sheesh-can-you-believe-this-shit smile.
He does not believe it. He cannot believe it.
Jordan extends a crossed leg and pulls up a sock made of silk.
Audiences everywhere already know who they “like.”