***Vanessa Beecroft: Rules of Non-Engagement***
***JEFFERY DEITCH, LA***
***September 8–October 21, 2023***

Two weeks, at Balse. To be myself.

‘any fluctuation of the mind will lead to lack of peace’, ‘as you start ignoring the desires of your mind, you will cultivate detachment.’ ‘liberating’. - Starting with headspace 8,663 minutes. Then, day 138, 30 minutes of meditating. ‘Acting objectively instead of subjectively’ ‘a mirage’

Geeked out on digital sound. fun to listen to, precise. ‘digital audio signal’. “peak to noise floor…dynamic range of a human ear is often quoted as 120 decibels…as close as you can bear it…signal to noise ratio…” and so on. You get the point. check it out.

COUCOU CHLOE — GECKO

for sure

COUCOU CHLOE - DRIFT (prod. COUCOU CHLOE)

but I don;t…sirens sounding, hawling?…

up lifting.

love icona pop - Icona Pop - Make Your Mind Up Babe

I tested the song on speaker purchased. Common Wave Hi-fi the best. Should check them out if you are in the DTLA, Boyle Heights neighborhood.

Bertrand Russel’s A History of Western Philosophy phase on audiobook.

Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)

Viktor Frankl on Why Idealists Are Real Realists. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

and yeah, this does it for mw. Friday Dunard - Aeternus. Artistic,

Confidence Man Euphoric House DJ Set | Pikes Ibiza | Mixmag - nicely

Anthony Linell - Illusion Self [NE93] - the hard, solid, and grainy? wall of sound, in the proper environment, that is something that we should do more. definitely up-lifting. so great. listen to this repetitive movement that is life.

moving on.

oh, back to A (very) Brief History of Bertrand Russell, …pre socratic era.

They emphasized the rational unity of things and rejected supernatural explanations, seeking natural principles at work in the world and human society. The pre-Socratics saw the world as a cosmos, an ordered arrangement that could be understood via rational inquiry. - wiki

Japanese way of "Finding purpose" . sky, life from the sky, your own trait, nature within you before you start, that you already have, core part of who you are, could be your strength or your weakness, to build a discipline, time and energy, pursuit, balance, flaws, stress, and consistency, passion, fire lit for a long time, aware. alchemize, nature, what you have to know, what you have to do, you are not perfect, embrace. a powerful thing, because of the flaws. keep sharpening your katana, the, shuku-mei. every life path, dwells within you, something that you cannot change. why, why do i have to be X, life teaches us, overcome, conquest, challenges and pain, beyond your fate. to learn, to heal yourself. you have to heal, you have to learn. transport, life that moves - that isdestiny. early parts, we cannot change. but the destiny, you can change with your will. your destiny is not your destination, but it is the journey itself. as you walk through your journey, it is constantly changing, as you take each step. choices that you are making is shaping up your destiny. always understand why you are making a decision. as a human being, one of your life purpose is to serve, to pay forward. life that serves. small as writing a letter.

life that serves

***Rose Wylie: CLOSE, not too close***
*David Zwirner, LA*
*September 8—October 14, 2023*

Rajiv Visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Tudors, lovely.

"Alex Katz: Gathering" at the Guggenheim, which I missed. to find future exhibition somewhere on earth in the near future.

His reductive tendencies in painting are further characterized by simplicity and heightened color, features later developed further by the pop artists. Kat’s portraits capture our eye and create a dialogue in our mind between figuration and abstraction. They take from abstract expressionism a monumental scale, stark composition, and dramatic lighting, which is flat, restrained, and minimalist. The portraits’ characteristic flat, cropped faces linked them to commercial art and contributed to the comeback of figuration.

if you ever go to Japan, you should visit Naoshima. - ChiChu Art VR Museum Cinematics

dancing. - House Non Stop

then ClassiAsobi presents this. - Lutosławski: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - I. Dotted Quarter Note = 110 - Quarter Note = 70

then this - Violin Concerto: I., every other night, daily from Friday through Sun.

many hours spent discussing Anna Vinnitskaya and her brilliance.

but, the most listened to music lately is this - L'Orfeo, SV 318, Prologue: Ritornello – "Dal mio Permesso amato" . Printed out the lyrics, suggested by ClassicAsobi. To read this month.

certainly weird, challenging one, but freshness, yes, Koze, yes. Stylish, yes. love Róisín Murphy

now - Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair - Set The Roof (ft. Tayla Parx)

More Recently Hudson Mohawke jumping tunes, dancy, strange dance proper.

Wait A Minute Hudson Mohawke more bouncy, staccato

AUDREY NUNA - locket (Official Video)

the highlight film, blown away, a must see, now. thanks to that Alex Andre - Close-up (1990) Trailer | Director: Abbas Kiarostami

retrospection

バルスの世界 (world of balse)

Charles Balse

***Jenny Holzer - READY FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE***
***JENNY HOLZER***
***Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood***
***1 SEPTEMBER – 21 OCTOBER 2023***

Words of Wisdom

While abstract paintings that appeal to our imagination call into play the brain’s top-down processing mechanism, figurative paintings that appeal to us call into play the default network of the brain. The default network, which was discovered in 2001 by Marcus Raichle (Raichle et al. 2001), consist primarily of the three brain regions: the medial temporal lobe, which is involved in memory: the posterior cingulate cortex, which is concerned with evaluating sensory information; and the medial prefrontal cortex, which is concerned with theory of mind - that is with distinguishing between another person’s mind, his or her aspirations and goals, and one’s own mind…recent studies suggest that the default network is most active during high aesthetic experience in art. (Edward Vesesel Nava Ravin, and Gabriella Starr) This intriguing finding suggests that since activation of the default network is related to our sense of self, its activation in response to art enables our perception of painting to interact with mental processes related to the self, possibly affecting them and even being incorporated into them. This line of thought is consistent with the idea that a person’s taste in art is linked to his or her sense of identity - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science page 184, Zettel 142
To be abstracted is to be at some distance from the material world. It is a form of local exaltation but also, sometime, of disorientation, even disturbance. Art at its most powerful can induce such a state, perhaps most potently. - Nancy Princenthal, New York art critique - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science page 185, Zettel 143
We are closer to attaining cheerful serenity by simplifying thoughts and figures. Simplifying the idea to achieve an expression of joy. That is our only deed. - Henri Matisse, Reductionism in Art and Brain Science page 7, Zettel 144
Some birds, insects, and fish have photoreceptors that respond to the ultraviolet light (shorter wave lengths than humans can see), and some snakes, insects; and vampire bats have receptors that can respond to infrared radiations or heat (longer wavelengths than humans can see). Certainly those animals can see spectral “colors” that we cannot and their perceptions are presumably different from ours - Reductionism in Art and Brain Science page 42, Zettel 147