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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Biotheistic Figures

 


Biotheistic Figures
benjamin harubin 2025
19" x 13" x 3"
acrylics, latex, wire & string on weathered wood panel




a palimpsest:

biotheistic figures 

awareness itself is a collection of memes sequentially glowing for fifteen milliseconds

i remember an ancient future


was it all just a dream or did you blink and civilizations rose and fell? 

were there consequences and were the consequences you?

everything is a memory of everything else, no matter how compressed it is.

what i mean to say is that the same mathematical structures exist at all scales throughout time and space making it difficult to pin down exactly the difference between living and nonliving, intelligence and nonintelligence.

mitochondrial pinocchios are just as upset about this as everyone else, tho. 






Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Greetings from the Hive #1

 

    an irregular report on the state of the art


Submerge 
digital collage
benjamin harubin 2025



Extremely ordered systems resemble chaos 
in direct proportion to the understanding of the system,
hence the uncertainty of whether we are ok or not.


We're making art.  We're making poemes.  
We're building buildings and expanding the bubble.  
It's already getting hard to tell human from machine.  
The line is fractal, if you can call it a line.  
Everything is everything else's environment.  
What's your vector, Victor? 












Sunday, June 15, 2025

FREE SKATE

Free Skate
benjamin harubin 2022
18" x 17" x 2"
acrylics, wood, paper, pencil, objets trouvĂ©s on printer casing
 


 

(this piece is the title of this piece)


Saturday, February 15, 2025

LOVE IS WAR IS AN ONIUM THEORY

 an organism birthing to a next order scale

rememorize
benjamin harubin 2024
created as .xcf 1920X1080px (gimp)


oh worms we have given you everything to ride the chaotic waves of the cosmos.

everything is true. everything has some specific function, however odious. 

and you are right to fight, for that is essential, however painful. 

a signal of warning, a shelter, a precious bubble.  

just look into the eye of space baby. 

---

god, speaking in stories

(pictures flashed; no way to remember all the episodes):

she said how to live

put the talk box on the shelf

put the cHAT© out the hat

next to the babbling brook with the birds

people don't know what they see

unconditioned by a fairly observable gaslight mechanism

brainem.

just don't put your hand in the talk box

brainem.

the user participates in the weaving

(at nignt/ in the day)

being the instrument and the humidity 

brainem. 



















Saturday, August 17, 2024

The Egyptian Game of the Dead

 

SPACK
benjamin harubin 2023
collage in silico




i have crafted the perfect body.  i have crafted the perfect body, 

with the most perfect eyes, eyes that recreate reality in all its detail.

mary shelly, ada lovelace, i followed the dream,

a game so real with pressure and smells and taste and temperature. 

inhabit the shell!  climb into the sphere!  we're almost there!

are they dreaming of migration to a new home?

a parallel domain to gain insight into the (next) ultimate domain?

do they realize it's a game?

of course the king makes a big show, in ever expanding circles, of certain impressive magic,

but do they all BELIEVE? 

as in not "why are we playing this game?"



Thursday, July 18, 2024

THREADS

 

THREADS
benjamin harubin 2024

  collage in silico 


as in keep pulling on them.  you need to build up your arm muscles.  

chaos is not random.  chaos can be sculpted, chaotically.

the key is vibrating in many frequencies.   the way may look cluttered, but there are gaps and secret chimneys and a long way may be much quicker than hacking the thickets.






Wednesday, June 12, 2024

MUSCLE MEMORY

   


Muscle Memory
benjamin harubin 1995 - 2023
60" x 33" x 4"
acrylics & oils on glass, wood panels, acoustic panel
 


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