FREE SKATE

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

 

(this piece is the title of this piece)

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 your understanding of the system,

hence the uncertainty of whether we are ok or not.

Sometimes you can feel reactions of vague unease or even terror because the world is too strange and beautiful. 

i don't know why people are looking out in space for signs of life. This whole planet is alien.  

I AM a robot...  made of meat...   and pixie dust.  

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. 

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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. 

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?"

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.

MUSCLE MEMORY

   

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

 #gutfeeling #mentalhygiene #hypnopompicjazz #arthistory #whindoz #tiles #whatarelief 

THE SOUND COMES FROM UNDERGROUND

 

The Sound Comes from Underground
benjamin harubin 2022
13" x 13" x 9"
found objects, acrylic paint

The Sound Comes from Underground
benjamin harubin 2022
3/4 view

 #100percentorganic #piezoelectric #telluriccurrents #undergroundfutureorganization #morlockrave #matterwaves #sightvssound #thoughtvsaction 

CHAOS IS NOT DISORDER

 

Chaos Is Not Disorder
benjamin harubin 2024
11" x 5" x 1"
recycled plastics, acrylics, pencil on wood

#jokchurch #entertheplastocene #tinyshrines #earthskysunrise #alienworlds #desktopaphorism #ilyaprigogine