“ I agree with most of Arielle’s comments on Art School lately about lasers and crystals and upside down crosses and all that. She’s basically saying that people are pointlessly promoting decontextualized images of occult symbolism for no reason aside from the fashionability of darkness. Sure, I’m on board with that. But let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water! Sometimes I really love these endless streams of decontextualized images (pentagrams aside) just to expand my mind’s visual vocabulary. You can’t really expand your visual vocabulary as an artist by looking at things on Flickr, since everyone there is doing one of the same 5 things. Since much of art is relational to the art before it or around it, strong aesthetic grooves form for how kinds of art look. Flickr photographers look this way, net art looks this way, Mike Swaney-esque drawers look this way, etc. But sometimes you’ll catch something so weird, so out of left field on these Tumblrs from what you thought about design or art or whatever that it sticks with you. As a visual artist I appreciate when I see something that I’d consider new. Sometimes it takes a 1967 cropped advertisement or a screen grab of a VHS. Sometimes it takes people’s creations outside of art to show artists that art can look differently."
-Brad Troemel
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