THE BRIEF

the brief: of an artist is to bring to experience (in artform) the universal truth in local life this dialectic that Pissarro taught Cézanne; to use his local palette of paint to see into the universal atmosphère.

Even as i write, Irish cultural Institutions have passed the ‘duties ‘of cultural persuasion to the prerogatives of creationism from the Catholic Church-State hegemony to the States National Museums and Galleries mutually supported by the commerial art galleries where insider trading; overlooked by the media (5th estate) is now the norm.
This status quo maintains Irish culural backwardness in defiance of core values central to Western Civilisation: primarily that of the *open mind; open to criticise the status quo and to progress knowledge through the momentum of change in this third way, through the hard and fast held prejudices of “all for” or “all against” ideological positions.

PorousPlane is a conversion of the art of Western European painting [new arch-type]

into the age of Einstein’s World of Relativity and quantum fields

• *the legacy of Greek philosophy; Anaximander, in order to counter the either/or for us or against us positions; founded the third-way; which progresses on the knowldge already achieved by criticism of it. and by questioning openly the premises of accepted thought and ideas, a kind of Darwinian natural selection process in 600 BCE. Anaximedes added the idea of first principles: ie the arch, from his master, Anaximander