Five Grackles + One Mockingbird = Seven
In: https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A84797
In the essays in Outliers and American Vanguard Art, claims are made by the editor Lynn Cooke (Cooke 14) and others (English 49) (Sorkin 102) speak on behalf of or around the topic of "mental disability". The social experience of being "the mentally ill" and/or those grouped by certain categories of "dis-order" (Wells, Creating the Dis-City) (Wells, Mentally Ill Deserve Equal Opportunity: Ph.D. Value is that of your future) (U.S. Congress)(see Appendix A) is problematic. Without understanding the language of self-empowerment being created by citizens with disabilities, nor the possibilities of experience for a more effective and efficient recovery in modern terms of altered ways of thinking, i.e. "The Altered State" , a profound understanding for the aesthetics and presence of citizens with psychiatric labels (disabilities) remains silent as a response to the imbalance of political and economic power. I realized a review of the catalog (Zeger) that inspired Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin prior to visiting New York City on March 9th, 2019 where a visit to the Guggenheim's show of Helma af Klint, Mapplethorpe, and Brancusi was occurring. I submit as a thesis, the conceptual structure inherent to life, as to how one learns to create art, challenges the self to reconcile constantly a love for creative learning. Art becoming information by itself is only data, but to transform the information into "profound knowledge" (Deming, Out of the Crisis) creates joy and transformation within an artist or even a team of individuals, within an organization, or an organization, itself. The visit to New York City's museums and galleries afforded me once again to be in wonder at the weight, the mass of a city as art form while seeing light and every physical object in motion with deeper understandings for my existence as well as others (Merton) . This attempt into Fine Art is an effort to recognize the forces by which processes respond to entropy not just aligned with Rodin's portrayal of the Gates of Hell (Getsy 60) but also to comprehend the perpetual flow of disorder with nuances by which nature/economies create forms. In other words, I am suggesting an integration with a philosophy that understands in toto, how materialization of an idea is still important for economic development, but at a meta-supra level of analytics and knowledge production being realized more specifically into public policy (Lepowski 33): "before time runs out on mankind". In creating a visual language, the artist expends energy in response to a vision within (Terkel). With the head of MIT's physics department referring me to see his friend, Cyril Smith at the Christmas Break in 1982, my realization became aware of how beauty arises in art, as a transformational function in the micro to the macro. Complexity now is a concept, that transforms space into beauty, i.e. abstracting to ultimately realize an artifact or even a city . This observation was outside of self and had not been internalized as thought at this time. Now, my senses are that Life is the Art and to attempt in a few pages, an assemblage that connects the dots for a more coherent order is a moment by moment engagement with my psyche. My perception(s) of reality requires only an acceptance of living with renewal and uncertainty (Prigogine). Risks are essentially part of the deeper thought process rooted in time that are now only being discussed in terms of "ephaptic oscillations" in regards to how the brain processes time (Wassenhove, 2017 European Frequency and Time Forum & International Frequency Control Symposium). As one who experienced mental illness and is challenged to understand the nature of labels and the mental health industry, my research question is from the outlier's position that has found meaning with relation to the bell curve of statistical sampling in the verb of creative expression . To go a little bit deeper in trying to understand this dilemma, I/We (Foster) face an arts community that is perpetuating a discriminatory language as an economy. Somehow, the turn to the hard right (Fraser) from the last presidential election rejects directly and indirectly the value and values the art industry, being that "donations" or "investments" are as much a function of tax benefits codified by favorable laws conducive to the investment banking industry and their clients (Fraser). On the other hand, Disability is the last category of civil rights and yet this category reflects a membership by multiple races, sex, creeds, and gender in an aging world that denies inclusive expressions. The value in being different, by choice, genetics (not so much choice though one can learn to improve) with access to economies built on credit, requires a certain artistry of response and greatness of citizenship. The struggle is ongoing and at times may reflect more of a retrograde motion.