Aporia Rhapsodia: It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature This is a book of riddles. What are riddles? Riddles are portals to the unknown. Riddles are spectacles of perspective, conceptual illusions, traps along the roads of routine reasoning. Riddles are big concepts conveying themselves in small spaces. Riddles are behind the green glass door. Life […]

You have your priorities straight. The process comes first. You have strategized a plan by which you will periodically be free to sink, undistracted, into the blissful timeless space of craft and invention. You are focused on your project, fixated on your subject, and racing toward your object with all due electricity. Unfortunately, it often […]

An artist is an individual who uses one or more methods of stylized expression to create something which is meant to be pleasing, in some way, to the artist and some theoretical audience. A successful artist has conveyed that sense of pleasure to an audience, of whatever size and nature. There is no reason which […]

Notes on The Process There are two types of blocks. The first is a true void: you have nothing to express; your artistic endeavor is predicated on some artificial notion of activity without any impetus. All I can say is, if you find this to be your situation, that you are not ready to create. […]

There are no flaws Only assets misapplied Take ambition In the wrong situation A source of frustration Yet under the right conditions It has the force of the tide The drive to exceed Is as common as weeds Choking the growing of any other seed But in a clear fertile plain Burnt away and drenched […]

These are bits of Magma which were worth writing down at the moment. “We’re writing tomorrow’s cliches, today.” -IR “Poetry does not follow a meter. Poetry produces a meter.” -IR “When the shift in the political spectrum tends toward tyranny, the center must radicalize to survive.” -IR “If you want to go off script, better […]