Prototype for a Neurochemical Re-Architecturality

Prototype for a Neurochemical Re-Architecturality
acrylic, pencil and collage on wood construction
37" x 34" x 7"
benjamin harubin 1991
on loan from the Miller Foundation

it is not my intention to engage in obscurantism for its own sake.  

on the other hand, if it were possible for creators of music, poetry, painting and other less than "rational" art forms to express themselves explicitly in terms that make sense to the linear, verbal mind, they would do so, and save themselves shitloads of trouble.  

on the third hand (the blue one), i don't think that exegesis is actually harmful to a work of art, so i may briefly engage in some, with the proviso that you understand that it is less than foam upon the waves.  
everything is in context anyway.

and painting does not exist outside of an architectural context, whether it be a naturally occurring cave wall, a museum, a living room or the architecture of transistors in a computer.  
on another level, art does not exist as some kind of "statement" aside from the architecture of social and biological interactions and its function therein. 

this piece can therefore be seen as a kind of microcosm; a model of chaotic interactions, reminiscent of random thoughts.  
for me, it is less about a specific gestalt of meaning than about this process of finding and creating meaning in a neural architecture.

hello Marshall McLuhan (welcome to Modern Art* 101).

whereas Modernism is sometimes seen as destructive and reductionist, there is another coexisting pillar which is an unbridled celebration of endless new possibility.  
for increased possibilities to exist requires a continuing understanding of the processes and context of being human.  


this is the task of the post- post-modern, post-apocalyptic Reintegration.


so here we have a disorienting jumble of windows rotating fiercely about the axis of attention.  
ideally, the borders and connections of this work would keep extending like a demented altar piece until it is housed inside of its own post-apocalyptic temple complex and inextricably and electronically woven into world.  

this piece was constructed of several separate planes, so i am including some three quarter shots and a detail.  click to sizematize.

*as explained before, we can still talk about an ongoing Modernism, even after its official closing rite because tendrils of inheritance.