The Leaden Thistle

1. Teleos

   22 Mar 2018
   Your life has meaning beyond the horizon of your personal influence.  To negate this is to accept the ethos of the parent society. . . . To embrace it is to become free in a terrifyingly consequential way.

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2. American Anatta

   07 Nov 2017
   Anatta, is the Buddhist term for a nameless wisdom.  That realization that we are not separate from the world we inhabit. Down to the level that neither exist Bob Marley expressed it as One Love. Dr. King saw in it the moral arc of the universe. Adrienne Rich dove for…

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3. Corporate Art

   19 Oct 2017
   Artists need to rethink how we discuss our objects and the lineage they fit in.  The hegemony of late capital culls out any work that critiques it.  Public, abstract, and successful art will always have to pass through the funding “gate.” Oligarchs, by extension of their foundations and institutions hold…

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