Naming is knowing, but this knowing of a thing leads to judgment.
Why is this important to the Anonymous Artist?
The Anonymous Artist seeks not to know, but to experience. To wallow in the moment between knowing and judging and then disavow both ends embracing that solitary Anonymous Moment between. That period of intense joy at the time of experience before it passes and the moment of abrupt loss when it does.
So, I, in this moment, declare that I can consciously un-judge a thing by not naming it. I leave it for someone else to Judge or Un-Judge. Name it what you will. Declare its beauty in your eyes, and judge it well. For I shall stand aside and instead hang it in the boundless walls of perpetuity with all the splendor of that tortured yet treasured moment.
And now, in the vain of the Anonymous Artist for whom I represent and launch this blog as a testament to his Un-Named work, name them yourselves. Name them well, and find in them an experience the Anonymous Artist too has found.
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Here's to anonymous art! Provenance is not art, and the artists name does not make art more or less so. Art may lie solely in the piece and the personal context of the moment.
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