art rant =

3am, a bleak industrial urban neighborhood. a human, blasted beyond sensibility,

staggering randomly through a dim intersection, leaking can of paint under the arm,

trailing seemingly random glyphs onto the pavement. you stand in a cold dark room one

story above the tops of streetlights ...watching. dawn comes. you see this: the intersec-

tion becomes thick with traffic ...all who travel over the symbol seeing or not become

enlightened superbeings > art > art burdened with sensibilities and reason seeks power

at the planck limit of perception / representation. physics, cosmologicartoons, wm. blake,

zen archery, scifi. matter and energy: dark and exotic. brains seek the branes. why do

we understand the draughtsman's 2d perspective as code for 3d objects? space minus

the occupation of objects = dimension = vast vivid goofy places where intellect constantly

cycles with its opposite. may not be suitable for those who have never been exalted.

does it penetrate those who pass?


ron harper

painter


southern exposure gallery • s.f. ca 75

project artaud • s.f. ca 80

project artaud • s.f. ca 84

lost 90 - 04

311 gallery • san pedro ca 05

collective visions gallery • kitsap wa 07

gallery 110 • seatttle wa 07


san francisco art institute 1970 - 1974

painting : hatofsky / tchakalian / akawi . printmaking . photo . film


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