hunter madsen . . beauty and chaos

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

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

. beauty from alienation

.. why
.. alien modes
.. 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
.. building
.. gating
.. shaping
.. collecting
.. containing
.. transmitting
.. transporting
.. made things
.. architecture

. personal beauty

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

. natural beauty

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

. in black & white

.. why
.. souls
.. spheres
.. cylinders
.. koans

. ideas
. contact

"Giant Extinct Machine 2" by Hunter Madsen

"Giant Extinct Machine 2"

TITLE - "Giant Extinct Machine 2"
WHERE - Industrial salvage yard, San Diego, California (2016)

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