Mavericks!
Look for renewals departing from Life.
Let us defile institutional theory mongering,
a corrosive taxonomy at the service of petulance,
marketing anachronistic slogans of nonsense.
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Subservient to infamy,
cohorts of dilettantes,
not lack of delimitation as handmaiden to ignorance.
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Who promotes the edge of a new fugitive survival?
Fleshing out servitude as style,
replacing intellect with mordacious rapacity,
parading unclothed, bareness of duplicitous souls,
with a gashing defiance, an insatiable desire to own,
a clandestine culture of the misbegotten?
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Boards of museums and CEOs glowing and bursting forth,
grotesquerie of gulosity,
takeover of corporate predators.
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Mavericks!
Let us not jibe and succumb to chauvinism,
emasculated by oppression.
Take heed that Freedom is not for sale.
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Would the web revolution lead artistic endeavors to a political revolution,
replacing galleries, museums, and the collector’s system of ownership?
Would the internal calling of an artist overcome the external demands of market survival?
Would such a calling exist in a natural state, without intervening forces of manipulative trends?
Would such a calling be bound to exhibitionism and voyeurism in exchange for sales, acquisitions, commodities, and the will of managing agents?
Would we face a new reality, free of stardom and economic maneuvers?
Would participation and isolation make any difference if such a calling serves no purpose but its own?
Would history become both irrelevant and important at once: irrelevant to how one fits in, and important to how one understands its limits?
Would knowledge always remain intertwined with some burdensome measure of superstition?
Would we repel paradox on arrogantly moral grounds, or tend unabashedly toward our primordial instincts?
Ricardo F. Morin, New York, NY
June 1, 2008
Observations On Perception 