Hypermodernity

One thing we can all agree on – we can’t agree on anything.

This is the product of what art historian John David Ebert calls ‘Hypermodernity’: a world of tech oversaturation and cultural acceleration where shared understandings have fallen apart, historical narratives are reinterpreted any which way, and there are ten thousand experts on everything.

In this liquified modernity meaning has dissolved into a slag heap of broken ideals, thrown away signifiers and cultural pastiche.

Yet human life without meaning is surely the very definition of desolation. And if there is no truth without then we must look within.

Art in an Age of Hypermodernity

“The task of an artist is to find signifiers within himself, mined from the artist’s own psychic interior,” says Ebert.

Indeed, my work comes not through thinking but is an evolution of forms that emerge from within me. 

“Analysis leads to paralysis,” says Belgian author and economist Gunter Pauli. “If your gut and your heart can convince your brain, then go into action. Find the opportunity with your own hands.”

And my best work is when I am not trying to do anything. I just work; only afterwards does the meaning emerge.

I am greatly influenced by other hypermodern artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Bueys, as well as (I would argue) Pablo Picasso. And the work of Carl Jung.

My works are not about what can be generally known, but only about what I can live and express.