Category Archives: ESSAY

THE SAAS-FEE EVENT SEVEN-YEAR TIMELINE

The Saas-Fee Badioian Event announced on September 9, 2014 is named for Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher, founder and director of the Saas-Fee Media Lab at European Graduate School and inventor of the homogenerator. This is the seven year timeline for the homogenerator phenomenology of quantum objects sourced in the emergent archetype of the Third (hieros gamos).Continue reading “THE SAAS-FEE EVENT SEVEN-YEAR TIMELINE”

R.I.P. SOPHIE: The Sound of Barriers Shattering Birthing the Iconic Face of the Hieros Gamos in POP

The news of the death of Sophie catapulted her divine image across the Internet in the wake of the transitional 28 January Leo Full Moon. The 2018 “coming out” of the multimedia boundary smasher artist as the transgender SOPHIE pop star born in Heaven … … revealed the authentic person behind the SELF creations asContinue reading “R.I.P. SOPHIE: The Sound of Barriers Shattering Birthing the Iconic Face of the Hieros Gamos in POP”

EXCAVATING BEYOND THE MALE GAZE: Switch On Paper Investigation

Cyprus, often called Aphrodite’s island, is the birthplace of the Love Goddess, according to Greek mythology. There, in 1976, just two years after the island was split into a Greek part in the south and a Turkish part in the north, inscribing the division in its heart, an archaic statuette with male and female sexualContinue reading “EXCAVATING BEYOND THE MALE GAZE: Switch On Paper Investigation”

DIGGING DEEPER: Revaluing Art Value during the Great Pause of COVID-19*

Going Deeper is the Cosmic Opportunity of the 2020 Pluto Saturn conjunction…the art world response is #ramuntchomattatarocchi.
 

TIME’S UP JAMES FRANCO!

Postmodernism is a movement that refused to die. The aged postmodern icons go on and on…and as prominent critic Eleanor Heartney declared way back in 2004: “There is nothing to replace (them).” And then, along came James Franco… By 2008. the movie star had become bored and frustrated with the limitations of his expression confinedContinue reading “TIME’S UP JAMES FRANCO!”

In Memoriam 2017: Dianne Bowen, Anne Dufourmantelle and Kate Millett

Three amazing women delivering the re-emergence of the feminine archetype passed away in 2017, leaving a crucial legacy of the 21st century journey — to internally embody the hieros gamos. Their collective contribution is lauded here as the essential crossing of boundaries between word/image for the collective goal of the physical embodiment of the Aquarian icon of gender equality.

REVIVING POP: Barbara Rachko’s “Black Paintings”

Barbara Rachko is an American artist with a personal and professional trajectory unique in contemporary art. As a Naval officer stationed on active duty at the Pentagon (Rachko is a retired Navy Commander), she made a slow transition to artist through studying drawing. In 1989, she became a full time professional artist doing realistic portraitsContinue reading “REVIVING POP: Barbara Rachko’s “Black Paintings””