Voices from Port Outreach

It turns out that whoever is doing the stencil art around town reads this, or else the E-band, or both. I guess because I was the one who was most vocal about it being a group, whoever it is decided to let me know nas opinion by doing some art on the door of my house, and writing above it, “There’s just me, dr0wner!”

I kind of like the art, so after talking it over with my chronies, we’re going to keep it (though we’ve already painted over the “message”). I can’t decide if I’m supposed to be mad or amused; I guess some of each. You can get a closer look if you click on the pic to the right.

So, maybe whoever wrote it is lying and there is a group. Or maybe it wasn’t even the same person, but just a pranking immitator (Squeet!?). I don’t know. But I still don’t think it’s friendly to force your art on the unwilling.

-Splash

This is a place to discuss food, especially Tellurian. If the actor who plays Alton Brown on the Tellurian show Good Eats wants to show up in character, that’s fine too.

There’s been some discussion among my friends lately about Equalist and post-Equalist art (probably having to do with the ruckus at Harborside). Everyone takes shots at Equalist art, but what some people don’t seem to get is that for the Equalists, it was never about the art, it was about how we looked at the art. Everyone quotes Sidora’s line, “The value of art isn’t determined by who views it, but by how it is viewed,” but pulls it entirely out of context. She was talking very specifically about what she and her friends were doing–experimenting with even balances, emphatic rhythms, and smooth progressions, all in such a way as to point at what they were doing, in order to train people (and themselves) to see those things in their more subtle and interesting manifestations.

To put it simply: the Equalists were not trying to make lasting, great, or even good art; they were trying to examine and inform how we view art. Descata’s “Athletics in Bronze” was, as Descata himself said, a pure accident.

Which is why I get so irritated at anything being called, “Post Equalist.” By now their discoveries have, in a positive or negative way, informed everything. I would argue that there is not, and cannot be, any art that is not “Post Equalist” which makes the term meaningless.

– Splash