YOU'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING

balance is the art of continuously falling

(YOU'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING)

a trip down future memory lane

(just believe in everything)

benjamin harubin 2020

17" x 16" x 11"

objets trouvés, acrylic paint, plaster & pencil 

 

Things that are just not so special anymore:

the earth, not the center of the solar system;

humans, cognitively, not the only animal to use tools and pass the mirror test;

humans, genetically, share 90% of our genes with a cat.

So, also, there's not a whole lot of difference between dreaming, fantasy, and rational thought.

You can construct your own island of insanity in a sea of junk science!

This is the dream we all dream of (oh, please!  oh, the jelly matrix!) 

(i spent most of 2020 working on just 5 pieces, most of which were started years ago, and this one is the first one of those that I'm posting.  more to come; i'm wrapping this all up before moving to a new special mode of working.)

 

Post Ironic Era Image OF Alien Deity

Post Ironic Era Image OF Alien Deity
benjamin harubin 2020
26" x 27" x 4"
acrylic & marker on paper on masonite

did the (G)god(s) make us or did we make the (G)god(s)? where did it start? where did you start? the aliens are already here. they never not been here. they will never be here. we are the aliens, speaking through thousands channels of information through allspace. new perspective is alien. each window a world. we are one and all.
(as if, identifying an advanced extraterrestrial species, we could understand anything about them. their jokes zipping lightspeed criss the sky whoosh.)
there's not a secret book with the alien revelation. it's in all the books. it's in the shape of the spaces between the lines, the voids like worms waving up and down the pages.  you can see the robots crawling through compression artifacts sometimes, unaware of an orthogonal existence.  let them be.   be still like professional wildlife shadow people photographer and make friends with the . 
   

WATARU IN DOWNTOWN CENTRAL CELLULAR CITY
benjamin harubin 2020
  in silico collage

imagining new structures

karma/

instant karma/

constant karma: 

choices/experiences create guides/channels for more experiences/behaviors. 

help you're trapped in a tree trunk and the sap is diverging today.  

The Beauty of the Commons

The Beauty of the Commons
benjamin harubin 2020
23" x 17" x 4"
acrylic on paper and wood

I've Got a Feeling. 
A Chaotic Vastness of Feelings. 
We are Trading them and sharing them in waves and waves. 
It's a bit Like an interconnected oscillatory set of Systems:
Shells within Shells of Organized structure. 
A Strange Great Beast.

Original Knowledge

Original Knowledge
benjamin harubin 2020
14" x 26"
acrylic and pyrotechnics on wood

wtf with the hate, haters?  for your survival, for survival of human species, maybe recognize that divergent opinions are merely individual vectors in a complex system. individually, too, building coalitions is more advantageous than snubbing potential allies.  ...and give what you can, because then you are owed advantage.  even paying it forward, anonymously, gains you environmental security.  might help the overall shipworthiness of the little multicellular blob you in.
 >>>anyway these perceived categories are such bullshit; left/right, capitalism/socialism/ communism, whatever.    we don't- we can't have a free market, yet the invisible hand concept is always present, in some way, as an aspect, as a functionality, everywhere, in the history of life, if not the universe.  and people been stinking commie sjw's since the cro magnon discovered weed, at least.  opposites are inextricably linked, different views of the same amoeba, yawn.  get with the program.  don't be racist, mkay?

Mostly Water

Mostly Water
benjamin harubin 2019
24" x 18"
acrylic on canvas

fuck yeah hydrodynamics

in future memory of Saint Quantum, who died/ will die/ never died (says i)/ is always dying  for our sims. 

Chaotic Knot

Chaotic Knot
benjamin harubin 1999-2019
various materials, acrylic on wood
33" x 22" x 4"

agency can be attributed to any scale of existence, even in scientific writing, even among those who strenuously deny any teleology.  is everything alive? or perhaps those who experience the sense of being an agent/ being an entity, cannot define what having agency actually is.  how do you define something using only the thing that is within the boundary of the definition?   are we just "projecting" properties of being onto matter?  or is matter projecting the sense of being onto us?  

Nothing discoverable can be considered to be a separate entity.
Your input is someone else's output.
Boundaries don't even exist.
For us, functionally, the universe is one being, quasi-infinitely folded into itself. 

*TWISM: Timey-WImy Spaghetti Matrix

biological interoperability

"biological interoperability"
electronic collage
original: 29.3 Mb
benjamin harubin 2016
click to see

so much soup;
and intertwined agendas;
magnetic, electric, informational. 
when agency is evident everywhere,
does anyone have agency?

is the universe ok?
what have we made real
and compared to what?

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