hunter madsen . . beauty and chaos

. you
. this art, this artist
. the problem of beauty
. beauty in metaphor

.. why
.. hard journey
.. cataclysm
.. us and them
.. misfit desires
.. what god wants
.. in our nature

. beauty from alienation

.. why
.. alien things
.. the industries of oz
.. floe abstractions
.. semiotic plates
.. polarities

. from disorder

.. why
.. chaos
.. decline
.. tailings
.. roadwork
.. non-signs
.. waste stream
.. dead machines

. and darkness

.. why
.. shadowed things
.. nazi death cult
.. satan's selfies

. in uneasy landscapes

.. why
.. limbo places
.. cold places
.. broken places

. from human order

.. why
.. designing
.. architecting
.. building
.. gating
.. shaping
.. collecting
.. containing
.. transmitting
.. transporting

. personal beauty

.. why
.. in cognito
.. in labour
.. in protest
.. in self possession
.. in carne
.. in parting

. natural beauty

.. why
.. easy landscapes
.. garden life
.. leaf scapes
.. light on water
.. light in mountains

. in black & white

.. why
.. souls
.. spheres
.. geoms
.. koans

. ideas
. contact

"And Up" by Hunter Madsen

"And Up"

TITLE - "And Up"
WHERE - Liquor store, El Cajon, California (2023)

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