my new one

Drawing, Painting, Collage By J F Baracca

 

2010  A Gorillacorn Sweater2010  A 

The gates sucked

Artist Statement

Collage, drawing, spray paint, pen, pencil,  Being not an Artist but an editor, the art is accidental. Each piece is a show in itself, it accumulates elaborate stories to go along. These fantasies end up effecting the how the art looks. It's also like a revolving cork board on my wall of things I think are the brilliant. You know... colors, shapes, everything on the internet... soon to come, a set in stereo, with twirling optical illusions! I can publish these stories/ inexplicable explanations, on request. Here's an idea that goes with the whole bunch: " realizing this is the wrong way to do an artist statement,  I have to do it anyway because anything else would be a lie. Yes, I am from Heaven, another world, in a parallel universe, which was very similar to yours originally. Earth has many shadows/hints/husks/ to the great interestingness of Heaven. My home was named for what people tried to make of it, and yours for what you continue to make of yours: dirt. Many parallel situations and events have turned out better there.  Some of my collages  show how this world would look if people made decisions as we have by and large in Heaven. Sci fi novels of  the 1960’s and 1970’s ( no modern sci-fi which is all military drama) have incidentally explored many of the socio political systems of different societies on Heaven. Many  Earth artists make sculptures and paintings here which are eerily similar to the dwellings, landscapes,  furniture, and personal gadgets there. Here it is Art(root-artificial), There, it is all simply Design.  Here you have minimalism there-mostly Maximalism. Yes, I went to art school where they teach nothing of significance yet drain you of  all resources. School is free on Heaven.   Heavens population is a stable straight line (contrary to your exponential spike of annihilation). Technology functions with the perfection of biology/ as a seed here takes many months to fruit yet still converts dirt into food eventually, on Heaven the same process is used to convert dirt (or any loose powder made of enough elements or waste material and liquid) in minutes into anything one might care to design at home or download from our Galactic Library (like your internet). We too have used technology in the past, (although it never occurred to anyone to burn toxic fossils or use radioactive material) since the invention of electrical power, ancient steam engines were heated by curved mirrors focusing light from the Star to collect energy in batteries for cars or anything else.  This of course happened 2000 years before the industrial revolution of earth - we never had religion to facilitate a dark ages for us.  That was all before atmospheric static electricity receivers were perfected. In comparison, You Earthlings have 15 shipping container vessels polluting as much as all the cars in the world and no one even know about it. Mass extinction...  Oh about the art yes, might as well have some interesting pictures on the wall that celebrate what almost was and could have been as it all dies around us."