Fresh ideas for the future

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On Culture

Snappy observations on life, culture, and– because I can't help myself–  art!

What is Art?

Tim's blog on refining a definition of ART and how art works; what it is and how it works inside viewer and society.

Art as Healing

We all suffer.  We cannot choose whether to suffer, but we can choose to whether to suffer alone or to suffer together.  Art is the medicine that will help heal the world.


Cultural Roles Museum


Just as a biological library preserves seeds of rare plants in anticipation of unrealized benefits that the future may uncover, so cultural roles– developed and refined in some cultures over centuries only to be replaced by more egalitarian or expedient roles– might be preserved in all their complexities for posterity.

    Toward a Universal Conscience

an idea for a global secular ethic providing an immune system for humanity.


Universal Conscience is a tool to preserve the primacy of humans and to find a shared sense of right and wrong that bridges all cultures, nations and religions. This web-based cooperative model reflects a dream common to the whole human family: to increase cooperation and diminish evil everywhere for unfolding an even better future.
I am a guy who spends a great deal of time– day in, day out– thinking about things. The process of art-making for me is intertwined with my compunction to find the sweet spot, to honor the truth, and to move the world forward into new creative solutions.  

Though civilization may be flying apart at an accelerating rate, we need to get over casting blame and gnashing our teeth over what mess it all is and get on with the crucial business of imagining our difficult way into the future.

With the advent of a mechanized world, driven now increasingly by instantaneous electrons, we have been seduced into leaving our imaginations behind.

The world that survives the crisis we have inherited will be one in which everyone's imagination is recognized, valued and engaged. 

That is what this page is about.  Here I hope to lure you into this vital work, one way or another. 

You are needed.  We all need each other.

The idea that we are individuals (each trying to seize the big slice) is a lie.  We are interdependant, and without personal vulnerability an 'individual' becomes irrelevant.  Humans will survive to the degree that we honor the vital juices of community and embrace our God-like capacity to create something brand spanking new in the universe!



Kirche Spector

"We have the capacity to implement almost anything and imagine almost nothing"   

-Walter Bruggeman, theologian

The Mysterious Language of Touch


English boasts some 700,000 words. So why do we not have a language for such a powerfully expressive and infinitely subtle medium as touch?

Psychic Art Forms

We tend to use our relationships like tools- to accomplish certain "ends".  But to do so ignores another entire rich field of alternate possibilities.

Love and Intimacy


Hard questions about  the realm of the heart that refuse to let one off the hook.


 

Art Next...  Our future exhibitions and wish list

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