hunter madsen . . beauty and chaos

  1. . you
  2. . this art, this artist
  3. . the problem of beauty
  4. . beauty in metaphor
    1. .. why
    2. .. hard journey
    3. .. cataclysm
    4. .. us and them
    5. .. misfit desires
    6. .. what god wants
    7. .. in our nature
  5. . beauty from alienation
    1. .. why
    2. .. alien things
    3. .. the industries of oz
    4. .. floe abstractions
    5. .. semiotic plates
    6. .. polarities
  6. . from disorder
    1. .. why
    2. .. chaos
    3. .. decline
    4. .. tailings
    5. .. roadwork
    6. .. non-signs
    7. .. waste stream
    8. .. dead machines
  7. . and darkness
    1. .. why
    2. .. shadowed things
    3. .. nazi death cult
    4. .. satan's selfies
  8. . in uneasy landscapes
    1. .. why
    2. .. limbo places
    3. .. cold places
    4. .. broken places
  9. . from human order
    1. .. why
    2. .. designing
    3. .. architecting
    4. .. building
    5. .. gating
    6. .. shaping
    7. .. collecting
    8. .. containing
    9. .. transmitting
    10. .. transporting
  10. . personal beauty
    1. .. why
    2. .. in cognito
    3. .. in labour
    4. .. in protest
    5. .. in self possession
    6. .. in carne
    7. .. in parting
  11. . natural beauty
    1. .. why
    2. .. easy landscapes
    3. .. garden life
    4. .. leaf scapes
    5. .. light on water
    6. .. light in mountains
  12. . in black & white
    1. .. why
    2. .. souls
    3. .. spheres
    4. .. cylinders
    5. .. koans
  13. . ideas
  14. . contact
Intro - 99 Alienated Images by Hunter Madsen "Old Hand, Pull, Pull" by Hunter Madsen "Dying Bloom" by Hunter Madsen "Nature Opens" by Hunter Madsen "The Gravity Escape" by Hunter Madsen "The Great Wave Off Hokusai" by Hunter Madsen Photography "Empty, Without Holiness" by Hunter Madsen "A Coven of Blouses" by Hunter Madsen Photography "Tidal Flats, Turaname Isl." by Hunter Madsen Painting "Shifting Geography of a Jailhouse Floor" by Hunter Madsen Photography "Three Kings" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Kandinsky's Garden" by Hunter Madsen "The Scales Fell to My Eyes" by Hunter Madsen "Astral Tarp" by Hunter Madsen "Piano Rolls of Rust" by Hunter Madsen Oil painting "Escher's Breakdown in Four Dimensions" by Hunter Madsen Photography "Steel Mesh Landscape, Black" by Hunter Madsen Oil painting "Steel Mesh Landscape - Silver" by Hunter Madsen Oil painting "Steel Mesh Landscape - 4C" by Hunter Madsen "Steel Mesh Landscape - Second-Stage Disruption" by Hunter Madsen Oil painting "Steel Mesh Phoenix, Third-Stage Disruption" by Hunter Madsen Photography "Ferris Wheel Gestalt" by Hunter Madsen Photography "The Beauty of Chance Correspondences" by Hunter Madsen Papered Storefront by Hunter Madsen "Where the Light Gets In" by Hunter Madsen "Sculptural Qualities" by Hunter Madsen "Serra Infernal" by Hunter Madsen "Reichstag Dome" by Hunter Madsen "The Predators Ball" by Hunter Madsen "Nervewires" by Hunter Madsen Drawing "Rorschach Blot, Ascending" by Hunter Madsen "Planet" by Hunter Madsen "Pounding Surf Expressed With Two Lettuces" by Hunter Madsen "This Also Is True" by Hunter Madsen Closures by Hunter Madsen "Fire Ship" by Hunter Madsen "Storm Surge" by Hunter Madsen "Vatic Barn" by Hunter Madsen "Welcome to the Memory Centre" by Hunter Madsen "Prismatic Light Non-Sequiturs" by Hunter Madsen "Pollinator" by Hunter Madsen "Airport Floors Cubed" by Hunter Madsen "The Hunting Blind" by Hunter Madsen "Construction Site Drop Cloth" by Hunter Madsen "Car Window, De Chirico Landscape" by Hunter Madsen "Postcards from a Borough of My Mind" by Hunter Madsen "The Treachery of Opinions" by Hunter Madsen Airport Bridgeway - Diptych by Hunter Madsen "Mysterium" by Hunter Madsen Cathedral Granite by Hunter Madsen "Wild, Wild Grasses" by Hunter Madsen "Dirty Moon" by Hunter Madsen "Birthday Swing" by Hunter Madsen "Too Colourful" by Hunter Madsen "Shadowed Floor I" by Hunter Madsen "Strip Mall Screen" by Hunter Madsen "Ascent" by Hunter Madsen "Piet's Turnstile" by Hunter Madsen "Trembling Facade" by Hunter Madsen Tanguy's Trench by Hunter Madsen Photography "Construction Site Privacy Screen, Left to Our Imagination" by Hunter Madsen Airport Corner" by Hunter Madsen "Lost at Sea" by Hunter Madsen "Appropriated Schoolyard Mural" by Hunter Madsen "Thunderclap" by Hunter Madsen "Double Perch" by Hunter Madsen "Eye Knots" by Hunter Madsen "On a Happier Note" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Derelict Facade" by Hunter Madsen Oil painting "The Memory Palace" by Hunter Madsen "Keith Haring Motifs, Returned to Storage" by Hunter Madsen "Picturesque" by Hunter Madsen "Breakup Bedsheet" by Hunter Madsen "September Vignette" by Hunter Madsen "Sung Dynasty Wildfire" by Hunter Madsen "Seaside Anemone in Bloom" by Hunter Madsen "The Spell" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Airport Runway, Collapsed to Two Dimensions" by Hunter Madsen "Airport Floors I" by Hunter Madsen "Cold Planet" by Hunter Madsen Indigeneity by Hunter Madsen Manhole, Paris by Hunter Madsen "Airport Shop Screen" by Hunter Madsen "Anemonic Beauty" by Hunter Madsen Past Life III by Hunter Madsen Urinal 3 by Hunter Madsen Alderside II by Hunter Madsen "The Revelers" by Hunter Madsen "Rhombus" by Hunter Madsen Sturm und Drang by Hunter Madsen "Tumbleweed" by Hunter Madsen Painting "The Hidden Life of Corals" by Hunter Madsen "Surreal River Landscape with the Eye of Max Ernst" by Hunter Madsen "Manhattan Tail Lights" by Hunter Madsen "Seed" by Hunter Madsen "Stalker" by Hunter Madsen "Surrender" by Hunter Madsen Oil painting "Uncoiled" by Hunter Madsen "Deep Life" by Hunter Madsen "Soft Landing" by Hunter Madsen "Tannenbaum" by Hunter Madsen "Helsingor Wall" by Hunter Madsen "Wizard's Nest" by Hunter Madsen "Kohl Hundertwasser" by Hunter Madsen "Mysterious Skin" by Hunter Madsen "Visit" by Hunter Madsen Photography "Fidelity" by Hunter Madsen "Blueberry Field" by Hunter Madsen "Seaside" by Hunter Madsen "Coaster" by Hunter Madsen "Backroom Shelving" by Hunter Madsen "Danger Liquids" by Hunter Madsen "Palimpsest Building, Toned Gables" by Hunter Madsen "Midnight Ramp" by Hunter Madsen "Schoolyard for Adults" by Hunter Madsen "Back Entrance, Mall Shop 3" by Hunter Madsen "White Gown" by Hunter Madsen "The Scarlatti Jungle" by Hunter Madsen "Ladder Detail, Baltic Ferry" by Hunter Madsen "Prickly Pear Cactus With Inverted Shadows" by Hunter Madsen "Alternate Views of Flowers - Old Lily III" by Hunter Madsen High School Fencing X by Hunter Madsen "Approximation of Spring" by Hunter Madsen "Midnight Facade" by Hunter Madsen "Privacy in Sunlight" by Hunter Madsen "Shadowed Floor III" by Hunter Madsen "The Canvas Grotto" by Hunter Madsen "Wet Crow" by Hunter Madsen "Firebird" by Hunter Madsen DUI II by Hunter Madsen "Molten Cabbage" by Hunter Madsen "The Persistence of Matter" by Hunter Madsen Light Box II by Hunter Madsen "Depth" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Red Field (after Monet)" by Hunter Madsen "Dimensional Mashup" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Arachnid of Paradise" by Hunter Madsen "The Bedsheet Stirs" by Hunter Madsen "Wild Fields" by Hunter Madsen "Sheltering in Place. With Crayons." by Hunter Madsen "Under-Carriage" by Hunter Madsen "Plywood Transubstantiation" by Hunter Madsen "Heaven" by Hunter Madsen "Purgatory" by Hunter Madsen "To Hell With Us" by Hunter Madsen Drawing "Papered Store Window" by Hunter Madsen Drawing "Listening, Fast and Slow" by Hunter Madsen "Voice of the Garden Tools, Interpreted" by Hunter Madsen "Love is Gentle" by Hunter Madsen "Disrupted Utility Cage" by Hunter Madsen "Impressionism Today" by Hunter Madsen "Dominion" by Hunter Madsen "Freight Delivery Gate" by Hunter Madsen "Jungle Whirlwind, Chroma II" by Hunter Madsen "Airport Piano Bar" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Tree Trunk as Mountainside Vista (after Thomas Moran)" by Hunter Madsen "The Ghost Citadel - Rolled Fencing and Vines" by Hunter Madsen "Scratched Glass Door II" by Hunter Madsen "Halloween Web" by Hunter Madsen "Seine River Silhouette" by Hunter Madsen "Field Behind Derelict Shack" by Hunter Madsen "Glacial Landscape" by Hunter Madsen "The Cattails of Claire" by Hunter Madsen "Tanguy's Poolside" by Hunter Madsen Drawing "Roadside Omen" by Hunter Madsen Painting "Paint-Splattered Bark (homage to Garnett)" by Hunter Madsen "The Clearing" by Hunter Madsen "Where the Dog Salmon Run" by Hunter Madsen "Airport Floors 8" by Hunter Madsen "Door Jam in Sunset Light" by Hunter Madsen "Court Screen" by Hunter Madsen "Kathmandu Wiring, Night Life" by Hunter Madsen "Unfinished Light" by Hunter Madsen "Mastermind Toy Store Reflections Before Sunrise" by Hunter Madsen "Flock, with Nonconforming Seagull" by Hunter Madsen "If Frost Had a Springtime" by Hunter Madsen "Promethee, Le Poeme du feu" by Hunter Madsen "Giotto Perspective" by Hunter Madsen "Holiday Puddle" by Hunter Madsen "Lamp Shades" by Hunter Madsen "Monolith to Vladimir" by Hunter Madsen "Celebrate Savings" by Hunter Madsen
  
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