neo-art brut/ the new raw art
So …
… you like new things, I like new things, let us make some new things, lettuce. But where to start? The French Decedent poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote in his letter to Georges Izambard, "je est un autre," "I is another." I is an/other, somebody else. I cannot speak for you but the sensations of myself, all that makes me up, there are splits I feel, so deeply inside, as if I were alien to myself. I do not mean to say I am in pain, rather in moments of deep depression or joy I feel at times as if I was outside myself.
I have taken many of the tenants of Art Brut and tried to turn them inside out; instead of seeking answers in others I hope to find them inside. Thus:
* seeing that Western artists have spent the last 150 years seeking the Other when in fact the Other is the Self;
* seeing that we all have fire inside ourselves though we might forget how to control it;
* seeing that the only crudeness is the Crudeness of the Psyche;
* seeing that the only primitivism is the Primitivism of the Soul;
I am seeking a new Raw Art of the Self, Neo-Art Brut; once we get beyond the center from which events are controlled, that is, the ego, we can begin to use that fire again and see what is going on. Why waste your time pretending to be something other than you are not? If Indigenous peoples hold truths, then so do I, so do you. If we cannot find what we are seeking inside ourselves we will never find it.
I am seeking the Bullgod, what are you looking for?