Abstract Depressionism — IFSF PUBLISHING

Abstract depressionism, a new category of art-making in which the artist, loyal to the surface, lets the surface be what it is.

Then, when he or she has a question to ask of the art piece, the answer is always, “I don’t want to know.” And so, the artist can go on working, making art that I am now calling, ‘abstract depressionism’.

The goal of all art: to subtract from the surface by using less and less of the product, whatever the product is, whether it be words or pictures or both.

Meantime, the country’s drowning in smoke and mirrors, a nation crammed to the gills with junk-food products and :30 second tv spots featuring dancing pizzas and drum majorettes who march through the town square after ingesting a drug that promises to lower their cholesterol.

Insanity has become believable again, even fashionable. Bafflement seems to be the end product.

I’m beginning to believe that perhaps we were all designed to be baffled, that bafflement was the plan from the very beginning of this new phase of insanity. And that it’s a very long way from the greatness of a leader with a sense of humor (Charles deGaulle once said ‘it’s impossible to govern a country with 258 cheeses’), to the current USA moment of abject abstract depressionism posing as political leadership with an actual vision of the future!

What then does the future have to offer? More of the same. To lessen the tax burdens of the very rich. To console those who feel poo and who continue to suffer through the breaking of broken news. To know that there really are horrible people among us who perform acts of conscious pre-meditated cruelty.

Reading Samuel Beckett once again, always a way shower, kind of like Christ, minus the overt Christian overlay that Beckett abhorred—what’s known as The Trilogy.,

Beckett is so compelling, how Beckett was always able to clearly delineate the difference and the sameness between male and female, seeing both male and female as basically the same.