IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE

 a celebration of this, that and the OTHER

Ideological Warfare

benjamin harubin 2023-24

9" x 6" x 6"

acrylic & latex paints, found items, medium grit shop-vac contents

(a second or maybe third life for those struggling with dilemmas)

it's important for art works to function flexibly with architecture, that is why most of these pieces are designed for desktop, shelf, OR wall mounting (here photographed as a wall mount). 

COULD AN ACCIDENT DO THIS??

 

chaotic perhaps, but not random

Could an accident do this??

benjamin harubin 2023-24

19" x 11" x 4"

acrylic & latex paints, found items, silicone sealant

importance arbitrarily assigned to sacred signifiers through architectural design

Kikyo's Mantra

 

Kikyo's Mantra
benjamin harubin 2007-2023
17" x 12" x 5"
acrylics, magazine collage, plaster, found items on wood

rationalists & scientists have not found that definitive thing that magical spark the weight of the human soul⁰ that separates the living from the nonliving, rather there is set of descriptions a laundry list of a matter of philosophy Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not, and is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction. Many philosophical definitions of living systems have been proposed, such as self-organizing systems. Viruses in particular make definition difficult...¹  not to mention prions not to mention hair, fingernails, "dead" skin cells, mollusc shells, termite mounds, not to mention the internet, not to mention gravity, magnetic fields, streams of electrons and ions which connect everything everywhere infinitely (another philosophically ridiculous concept).

for many years this piece hung in the bathroom at Tito's but then one day came back to me and found new life.

"life is death, death is life"

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)

INTERIOR LANDSCAPE

> junk philosophy, micro-poetronics, mystical materialism, punk surrealism, wordart, post-modern regressivism, semiotic neuro-optics, alien scientist perspectives, chaotic memetic generation, dissonant connectivity- - -   (evolution involution of the Unified Verse) 

Interior Landscape but Subjects Object

benjamin harubin 2016-2018

28" x 17"

acrylics, marker, pencil, vinyl record, polyester fabric on canvas on board

a dream i had where things were impossibly inconcievably huge, and i was a funnel down to this intricate, fleeting, infinitely dense, ridiculously nanoscopic field

Traumatized Before Birth

 

they told me
benjamin harubin 2023
computational collage
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we're going back to heal the trauma,

back to the past, have a look jack

take a snapshot of all the dominant threads

tease the terrors and terroirs

out of fossil wormcasts and worn genes,

a mathematically erected distance ladder of witness marks

a fine cathedral of past lives in light

did we make this?  are we inspired by this? 

are those hollow traces, bones, rocks and dandruff not dead?

vehicles, matter waves, in a large system, remanent magnetism

foundation, columns, fingernails, shingles

then there's no such thing as life or death?

no then.  

here, there, anywhere