Soft Plethora

 

Soft Plethora
benjamin harubin 2025
21" x 16" x 2"
acrylic, plaster, polyethylene, glues & paper on found art

my kid could do this.  

my cat did this!  

some kind of kung fu catatouille i'm convinced.  

just because we weren't aware of it at the time doesn't mean it didn't happen.  

have you thought about all the bacteria around and on you and in you, 

conjugating, exchanging recipes, broadcasting 24/7 on gutbrain radio? 

 

your most secret thoughts 

may be so secret that you don't even know where they are or where they came from.

Still in the Forest

 You are Still in the Forest.  The Dark and Light.

Still in the Forest
benjamin harubin 2025
14" x 10" x 1"
acrylics, found objects, cardboard on cotton fabric on OSB

The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.

what puts the sur in surrealism?

what puts the super in super-reality?

pointing to something not seen:

the subconscious, the spiritual, the political, the chemical, the atomic?

techniques of surrealism: the non sequitur, juxtaposition, 

they want you to apprehend contradictions

pointing to something not seen

like all art- treacherous images 

from Aurignacian caves to Modern Minimalism.

they said they could strip it away

a naked neural impulse

the thing in itself

but somehow even a featureless black cube

connected to everything that it isn't

speaks to all the mass of the universe.

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. 

artmakerX2

2015

installation

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? 

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)

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.