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
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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?

pswekdtjowwhwif

Continuous Life Forms (in Space)

(STQ19(AE)-Table Setting)  -a Spontaneous Poetronic Concretion of the Post Post Modern Era 

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Continuous Life Forms (in Space)
benjamin harubin 2019
mixed media, found materials, acrylic paint
41" x 31" x 10"

Continuous Life Forms/
Memetic Evolution of the Noosphere

Happy Love is Happy
(insect emotion)

[the SHAMBOLIC COVER-UP that is Consensus Reality]

On the hollow hive planet ...signals from the core reflect signals from space. 
... creates a halo of shifted domains.  Pools of syntropy orbiting an energy nexus/ plasmoid complex.  

...it's all in your brain, but everything IS your brain?  
but what is YOURS?  
when will OUR light reach a distant galaxy?
THE SKY talks to 
the trees talk to 
the light that talks to 
atom; 
to ION.  
(it's information physics) 
my MINIBRAIN lens is a CONDUIT till the edge of the UNIVERSE
inside is an evaporating BLACK HOLE and more universes merging across BRANES.

Continuous Life Forms (in Space)
Northern Region

Continuous Life Forms (in Space)
Southern Region

Continuous Life Forms (in Space)
Eastern Corner

Continuous Life Forms (in Space)
Western Extension

Incessant City

 (ode to David Royer using the Poetry Machine 5000)

"Incessant City"
35" x 17" x 6"
benjamin harubin 2019
found materials, paper, wood, plaster, acrylics

detail

detail

detail

NO ONE GOES "AWAY"


Everything is connected;
electrically, magnetically
and gravitationally.

Everything and Everyone
gets recycled and repurposed;
upcycled and downcycled.

"You" are the surface
of an expanding sphere
of electromagnetic
chemical information.
all human.
ramen.


THERE IS NO "AWAY".

By accepting limits, failures and defeats,
we acknowledge that what lies beyond them as real.

The countries that are responsible
for the majority of ocean pollution
are the places the U.S.A. ships its Trash.

(we are embedded in the middle of a series of
hierarchical shells of informational complexity.)

Uroborus Batteries, Baby

Someone's rocking my dreamboat Someone's invading my dreams We were sailing along Peaceful and calm Suddenly something went wrong Someone's rocking my dreamboat Disturbing a beautiful dream But with love as my guide I'll follow the tide I'll keep sailing till i find you

benjamin harubin 2019

(this is part of series utilizing the Poetry Machine 5000, which is fueled by crusty A.I. plastic refuse buildup.  The PM5K works by utilizing broken deep learning fragments as soil to germinate vibrant new dreams.  This is a similar process to that of grinding harvested ocean plastic trash to make new printer filament.  And it runs on neonatal Uroborus Batteries. Thus it is mentally ecological and self-sustaining.)

REIFY (The Watching Thing of the North-West)

REIFY (The Watching Thing of the North-West)
benjamin harubin 2018
59" x 46"
acrylic, oil, latex on canvas

In the Night Land, creatures emerge from the ground; 
flashes and floaters in the sight, 
such as dots, spots, a circle, half moon, insect-like shapes, lines, films or cobwebs.  
Here they become elves and anthropomorphic toasters and radios and vacuums.
This is the endless dreaming creation:  all of art and science and politics. 

small shrines to cellular miracles

eventually they think they will understand this reality so completely that no miracles will exist and its simulation will be indistinguishable from it.  

that will be a fucking miracle.  

Sleeping Dog Lies
benjamin harubin 2017
19" x 12" x 2"
acrylic, wood, canvas, trash

Recursive Mutation
benjamin harubin 2017
30" x 14" x 4"
acrylic, wood, canvas, trash

Spaghettified Palimpsest
benjamin harubin 2017
16" x 9" x 4"
acrylic, wood, paper, trash

-are lenses to view a thing in its numinous functioning.
Portals of the Sacred Chao disrupt and disrespect by revelation.  

The Fule

The World is Burning; Still Starchild Grows.

The Fule
benjamin harubin 2017
3' x 4'
acrylic on canvas

blinded by science;

confusing the anthropic principle 

for the anti-entropic principle.

the membrane is where you're insane; 

neither above, nor below;

it's the flow.