BRING IT BACK

BRING IT BACK
benjamin harubin 2015
acrylic on towel on wood
11" x 10"

i was dreaming when i painted this; 
the memory of the context has gone astray, 
so i cry out.  

THE GREEN SPACES

GREEN SPACE #1: Transmission of an Unknown Mutagenic Parasite
(A GREEN WOO PALACE OF EARLY LATE)

Green Space #1:  Transmission of an Unknown Mutagenic Parasite
benjamin harubin 2014
16" x 14" x 6"
wood, found objects, acrylic and enamel paint

Green Space #1
rear view

Green Space #1
oblique

Palaces of Woo

Places of Mystery embedded in the Ordinary Environment

Secret Spaces that Children Find 


what is woo?
...but the currently misunderstood?

the rigid structures, the rational products of the mind are subject to decay, mutation, hybridization, accretion and incorporation into networks.  

so buildings become transformed: usage changes; they are salvaged, abandoned, graffitied and overgrown with the unintentional.  

the technological/rational mind's products are subject to the invasion of woo.  

technology has unintended consequences, and science succumbs to memes and myths that far outlive their usefulness.

political structures become cumbersome and sometimes shift convulsively. 

shadows on the wall and voices in the air conditioner in a darkened bedroom speak to an "unbalanced" mind of alternate life paths in the late late.  

shadows on the wall: 
the theoretical shadows on the walls of evidence,
cast by the fire that cannot be seen,
the fire behind the eye,
the woo in the woodwork,
the snake that never can quite consume itself,
that yet beckons us to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

GREEN SPACE #2: Exoplanetary
DESKTOP ARCHITECTURE
shadows on the wall:
the theoretical shadows on the walls of evidence,
cast by the fire that cannot be seen,
the fire behind the eye,
the woo in the woodwork,
the snake that never can quite consume itself,
that yet beckons us to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Green Space #2: Exoplanetary
benjamin harubin 2014
15" x 8.5" x 3"
wood, found objects, acrylic and enamel paint

Green Space #2
(rear)

Green Space #2
(oblique)

EXOPLANETARY:

the truth is out there.
what do the experts say?

"We're looking for life markers in the chemical imbalances of small planets around other stars—that's very difficult. It worries me, and I pace up and down a lot and bite my nails!" 

why are the extraterrestrials sinful? Is sin built into the very fabric of the space and time of the universe? Or can life exist in parts of the universe without being in a state of sin and therefore without the need of redemption and thus without the need for Christianity?

the dreaming mind (which includes the scientific, the emotional, the creative and the speaking mind) is seeking the answer to existence out there in the patterns of the universe.  
-out there in space; down there in the cells.

if the origin of life were indeed exoplanetary, viral comet dust and space-faring tardigrade seeds traveling the galactic voids (panspermia), how could we determine the origin?

if i was a galactic super intelligence, i'd use a highly compressed, environmentally responsive, unfolding set of algorithms, to contact my client species.  
sort of like this panspermia idea.  

so, dr. drake, dr. fermi, where are they?

maybe we're inside of it, and it's inside of us.

(where we're going we don't need roads...
...or enormous radio dishes).

we're transmitting on Exoplanetary Radio!

if those exoplanetary beings were speaking to us already through our current frame, 
how would we even recognize them?  

perhaps we should look in the stains on the wall and the faces in the clouds and the thoughts in our heads, 
or maybe get a job, and look through a telescope.



MANY MORE GREEN SPACES CONTINUED BELOW:

the Nanocrobes

Assemblage:  (Wikipedia) The origin of the artform dates to the cubist constructions of Pablo Picasso c. 1912-1914.  The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes. However, both Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and others had been working with found objects for many years prior to Dubuffet. Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin created his "counter-reliefs" in the mid 1910s.


Nanocrobe: a series of small playful assemblages, begun in 1964, continuing into the present.  an analog of dreaming; daydreaming; pattern recognition; mistakes of navigational wetware; the spontaneous generation of active imps; miner assistants in the infowars, digging in the soiled imaginatorium.


photos by Joe Paban

"Snap your Finger"
benjamin harubin 2015
4" x 15" x 3"
assemblage
(objects found in Snapfinger Creek)

The LAST Nut

the painting is merely an illustration of the words.

the words are just a gloss on the image.

can't you just shut up?

Dear Bongo, no.

The LAST Nut
benjamin harubin 2015
acrylic, latex paint, found objects, pencil on wood
23" x 12" x 2"

full text:

The LAST Nut
my model UNIverse is nearly COMplete.  everything that there is is in it.  you, YOU, you, you and you.  IT's got EXpansion modules and lenses and SHIT.
at night routines stitch and DELete.  stitch and delete.  REPEAT.  Eddy gains momentum for A time.  but the interface IS leaking.  i CANnot be sure.  CAN'T NOT. 

making the invisible visible- EG- as predator seeks to penetrate camouflage- necessitates that PATTERN RECOGNITIONS be amped up. AT Some point in the cycle, a Plethora of Possibilities is a PLUS. ARE MATHEMATICAL LAWS PULLED LITERALLY OUT OF THE ASS OF THE UNIVERSE? A BRAGILLION FUNGI AGREE. The Agent Was Disguised AS Art School Trash- not!

making the invisible visible- EG- as predator seeks to penetrate camouflage- necessitates that PATTERN RECOGNITIONS be amped up.  AT Some point in the cycle, a Plethora of Possibilities is a PLUS.  ARE MATHEMATICAL LAWS PULLED LITERALLY OUT OF THE ASS OF THE UNIVERSE?  A BRAGILLION FUNGI AGREE.  The Agent Was Disguised AS Art School Trash-  not!

benjamin harubin 2015

water acrylic and china marker on canvas

3' x 4'

the name of this post is the name of this painting.   it's a painting of the name of itself.  the subject of this painting is identical with the title of this painting.  it's a painting of the words of the title of this painting.  it contains its own exegesis. feel free to rotate (if your mind is prehensile).  







my beret is tipped to Blake.

Cycle Up Re-Revolution (Re: Evolution)

"Cycle Up Re-Revolution (Re: Evolution)"
benjamin harubin 2014
10" x 6" x 1"
found object assemblage

This year will not be the same as any other year.
This year will not even be the same length as an ordinary year.
This year the earth revolution will be telepresented in 4D breathing color.
This year the cycle will turn in a new plane,
higher in frequency,
higher in urgency,
higher in Highness.
This year the King will come;
the Kingdom come,
without a condom,
without a care
for the counting of
all manner of new hybrid beings,
new memes
and new designs.
This year will turn over twice.
And what you thought was a solid Arrow of Time
has now a new dimension.
Hope ya'll got your sunglasses on
(so you can see what you ain't looking at).






stay tuned for morhe green spaces

Creatures Made in God's Infancy from 20th Century Artifacts Retrieved Via Time Machine Invented in the 33rd Century #44: The Myoote

"Creatures Made in God's Infancy from 20th Century Artifacts Retrieved Via Time Machine Invented in the 33rd Century #44:  The Myoote"
assemblage
6" x 4"
benjamin harubin 2013
(in a private collection)

The Myoote is pronounced like "mute", although you can hear the selectrical energies and the dread babbling aftermath.   

(if you had a machine that could read people's thoughts, and you played it back to them, they might go mad, or more likely, insist that the machine is malfunctioning, picking up someone else's thoughts, or random computer generated nonsense.)

the size listed does not include the tail, which is longer than the observable universe is wide.*




*unconfirmed but probable, contingent upon method of measurement.   certainly information content, barring compression and converted to atomic length units, would exceed the OU. 

MEGA INSECTOID TRANS-HUMANOID

"Mega Insectoid Trans-Humanoid"
magazine collage and acrylic paint
8" x 10.5"
benjamin harubin 2011

in a horrifying nightmare/ecstatic drug trip,
i felt my face to be inside out.

the long branching tendrils of my existence trailing through time
the pulsing messy pipes, tangled neurons, rubbery blood hoses,
the grubby hands sweating, multi-armed monstrosity,
gravity gluing me down, down,
down through the earth,
to the bloody egg oil mineral muck

the sound of thousand millions of machines
the roar of crushing atmospheres
a billion times the mass of the sun
a sound so great no organ can image it...

it's ok. it's ok now. just a day like any other.
boring.
exhilarating.
just a flashing flashing back to the day before birth.