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The grave of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir; I call this 'Existentialism is Dead (and here it lies)'.
I am very interested in my future. While I was talking to my friend one day, I learned that people actually like to talk about their past and future, sometimes even put bigger value in what happened in the past than the present. They also concern about their future, but they do not put as much attention to the “present” time compared to other period of time. It was quite ironic to see that people would put more effort in focusing on what already had happened and what will be happening without realizing how the time that I am living in can be the most truthful and realistic stage of me. This drawing shows the different periods of time throughout a person’s life. I illustrated the repetition in time structure in this art work to show that I am able to recall all the memories and worry about the unknown future because I am existing in this world right at the moment.
We all thought it'd be funny if Tom sat at a table by himself with a near-empty pitcher of beer.
Half-empty or half-full-of-self-destructive-tendencies?
Day 263 - Worldviews increasingly divide…disunity ensues…Talking to a friend about his belief in absurdism last week, he led me to an article and I quote:
Absurdism is the unifier of existentialism and nihilism: it accepts that we seem to function best with some sort of religious belief in our lives, but that science has shown the nihilists are right about both revealed meaning and constructed meaning. As a result, many choose to use some parts of a meaning structure—either borrowed or constructed—to get the human benefits thereof, but without relaxing so far that they start believing it’s true.Absurdism is about working within our human limitations, but without abandoning our respect for ourselves or the truth. Absurdists often either adopt or construct a belief structure that provides a day-to-day reprieve from the crushing impossibility of true meaning. Such constructs allow us to trick our evolution-soaked brains into extracting meaning from the universe, while never forgetting that the system itself is a trick.This awareness is the difference between rebellion and surrender.A person who has surrendered will say that they believe in their construct completely, and that it provides true meaning in the universe, while someone who has not surrendered may say they’ve adopted a scaffolding for practical reasons, but they know it’s artificial.From stephen-l-france.com/day-263-worldviews-increasingly-divi...
This image reflects the silent presence of death within all natural forms. Beneath growth, beauty, and vitality lies an inevitable process of decay, reminding us that mortality is woven into the essence of existence.
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Qui vivra verra, Spring 2016
(He/She who lives, shall see)
Existentialism in Paris
The Eiffel Tower took my breath away; I've never felt so small. Surrounded by carousels, local vendors and towering over the Seine River, it stood so proudly. I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that I was actually there in its presence rather than viewing it through a photograph or movie.
Comics Exhibition: "From TELEOS to the Beyond”
Dithers Humor with the Existential and the Mundane
SILVER SPRING, MD— DWIGHTMESS Cartooning & Comic Arts, a new gallery devoted to experimental and cutting-edge independent comics and illustration, is proud to announce its next exhibition, From Telos to the Beyond, a conceptual group show exploring material spirituality and existentialism through comics, featuring the original comics art of Sam Sharpe, Everett Bass, Bob Kubbers and Peach S. Goodrich.
Combining the uncanny and the profane, the arcane and the contemporary, From Telos to Beyond represents a cartoonists' inclination for testing out possible habitable cosmic systems through the particularized and unshared realities of their art. Humanity's inclination to obsessively name its purpose through art is a feature of popular Western cosmogony, and is put into illuminatingly weird action by these artists through the language of sequential storytelling.
Sam Sharpe and Peach S. Goodrich are collaborators on Viewotron, an anthology of recurring stories that match comedic riffs with philosophical narrative rhymes that could only happen in comics. Populated with talking animal college students, goal-less explorers, space monsters, debunked deities, and unexamined consciences, the publication's weird humor reminds us that no one is safe from the stresses in our lives that can embolden one to self-sabotage.
Combined with Sharpe and Goodrich, the perfect draftsmanship and storytelling of comics artist Bob Lubbers (1922-2017) reveals a mastery of and seamless relationship to the comics medium that would seem, to contemporary eyes, eerie to maintain and distinctive in its compositions. His bold creativity, on display in comic strips such as 'Lil Abner, Tarzan, The Saint, and Secret Agent X9 should have afforded him more recognition. According to comics journalist Paul Gravett, Lubbers is 'not the celebrated cartoonist he should be.' Additionally, in these strange & obscure, possibly unpublished comic strips titled Buck Danes, Everett Bass, an artist surmised to have worked in the 1940's, engages a singular, running commentary about making ends meet through its characters that mirrors the political realism of Harold Gray's renowned and long-running comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. That the comic may well represent a failed attempt to capitalize on Gray's success by featuring familiar working-class themes and a relatable drawing style, it ultimately still succeeds at replicating Gray's comic universe, but for purposes too fascinatingly odd to be understood.
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Less than two hours of overlap at the Zurich airport with Alex. Our discussion revolved around existentialism and other marvelous philosophies on life.