Industrial Themes  
©T. Kelly Mason  2010
additional material  from Sol LeWitt's 35 Sentences on Conceptual Art

Yellow.

Blue.

Gray.

Do we keep going around and around in circles.

drehen wir uns immer nur im kreis.

friday 3pm

Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
   Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.

German girl.
I don't speak english so well but I'll try.
  There was a Rabbi who went to the Catholic Priest at the church and asked "How do you get the money to make your church so beautiful?". Father said "We hear confessions; observe while I demonstrate". So the priest gets in the center compartment, the Rabbi on one side and in walks the first penitent. "It's been one week since my last confession and I have committed adultery three times". Father says "For your penance say a Hail Mary and put five dollars in the collection box and your sins will be forgiven". The next penitent walks in and says "It's been one week since my last confession and I've committed adultery three times". Father says "For your penance say a Hail Mary and put five dollars in the collection box and your sins will be forgiven". The Rabbi says, "Ooh, can I try?" So the priest and the Rabbi switch booths. In walks the next penitent. "Can I help you" says the Rabbi. The penitent says "It's been one week since my last confession and I've committed adultery two times". The Rabbi says "Go out and do it a third time; we have a special - Three for five dollars!"

   Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
   Formal art is essentially rational.

American Girl.
Ich spreche Deutsch schlecht wie ein Alien, ich bin un-native.
Ein Redneck geht zu einem katholischen Priester in die Kirche und fragt "eure kirche ist so schoen woher haben sie all das Geld  ?" Der Priester sagt wir nehmen die beichte ab, schauen sie zu, ich zeige es ihnen . der Priester nimmt in der Mitte des Beichtstuhls platz und der Redneck betritt eine der freien Kammern, schon kommt der erste buesser. Pater, meine letzte beichte liegt eine Woche zurueck und ich habe meine Frau drei mal betrogen. der Priester sagt. sage ein ave maria, werfe fuenf Dollar in die Kollekte und deine suenden seien dir vergeben. der naechste buesser tritt ein. Pater, meine letzte beichte liegt eine Woche zurueck und ich habe meine Frau drei mal betrogen. der Priester sagt. sage ein ave maria, werfe fuenf Dollar in die Kollekte und deine suenden seien dir vergeben.
der Redneck sagt ach so, darf ich auch mal ? also tauschen  Priester und  Redneck die plaetze. schon kommt der naechste buesser.  wie kann ich ihnen helfen fragt der Redneck. der suender sagt pater, meine letzte beichte liegt eine Woche zurueck und ich habe meine Frau zwei mal betrogen. der redneck sagt, dann gehe raus und tue es ein drittes mal, diese woche gibt es drei fuer fuenf Dollar.

English Girl.

  There was a Scot who went to the Catholic Priest at the church and asked "How do you get the money to make your church so beautiful?". Father said "We hear confessions; observe while I demonstrate". So the priest gets in the center compartment, the Scot on one side and in walks the first penitent. "It's been one week since my last confession and I have committed adultery three times". Father says "For your penance say a Hail Mary and put five dollars in the collection box and your sins will be forgiven". The next penitent walks in and says "It's been one week since my last confession and I've committed adultery three times". Father says "For your penance say a Hail Mary and put five dollars in the collection box and your sins will be forgiven". The Scot says, "Ooooch, can I try?" So the priest and the Scot switch booths. In walks the next penitent. "Can I help you" says the Scot. The penitent says "It's been one week since my last confession and I've committed adultery two times". The Scot says "Go out and do it a third time; we have a special - Three for five dollars!"

   Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
   If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.

English Girl

He sounds just a little bit like John Lennon.
   
The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego.
   The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.

Hello, My name is MUD,
my hippie parents named me that, but you can call me Ryan

Rightest State Powers oppress the left,
Leftist state authorities oppress the Right,
interventions must engage the boundaries between inside, and out, and histories, and the present, and the silver thread that binds each of the groups together, through the economies whose purpose it is to leverage an acceptable amount of infrastructural material from both the upper and lower classes in such a way that the industrialists feel unhindered and the working classes feel painless.
  Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

When the suffering of the working classes and the greed of the industrialists fails to turn the yearning for early retirement away from revolutionary action then survival of both assets is in question

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on                    the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.

When the best minds of the
generation lie 
burning 
in the streets and terrors 
of the night 
you gotta wonder why they felt the need for all that wandering.

the streets are mined for the 
purple
blue 
carbuncles that once shone the way 
from management types who knew nothing 
of their consequence and emergence.

the symbols of good luck recycled for the useful properties
of chaos aversion and false alarm prevention
makes shooting gallery ducks of addicted
sub   urban  sidekicks whose proximity
to greatness makes them feel somewhat useful

 Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.
  For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.

reeks and wrecks of the new millennium
rise from your stools
and sober living and take
good care that the others
around you
know good from evil

reeks and wrecks of the new millennium
the sun will paint and glitter your piles of gold someday 
just as surely as it will melt them.
When the suffering of the working classes 
and the greed of the industrialists 
fails 
to turn the yearning for early retirement away from 
revolutionary action.

 A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

  The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.

new voice
secularist
pacifist
capitalit
fist

Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.

If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.

Laura

thing

product

desire

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

The conventions of art are altered by works of art.
a performance work

dress the belly dancers in suits of leisure and have them engage with a different set of props.
what shall replace the sword?
A gun?
A Mop?
Replace the anger of the dancing with something smooth and mellow.
and so it goes and so it goes.

The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.

Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.
Moses told the Jews, don't be angry with the Egyptians.
You have to get over it.
Or you'll be enslaved by your hatred.
So said the Dalia Lama today in front of an audience of rabbis priests imams and interviewers
he  said we all contain it inside of us, this hatred, and that's what the struggle is about, trying to make sure that the hatred goes away, can I count on you, do I feel lucky, can I count on you to do something better
when vibration slows that's what we all know, it becomes a part of your sleep, a part of your dreams, a part of your living, and a footnote after the end,  It's not over yet, for any of us, just asleep.
If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.

All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.

and so the belly dancers must replace their implements,  remove the implements of aggression, and rescue the implements of desire. 

Yellow.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

The conventions of art are altered by works of art.

Blue.

Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.

Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.

Gray.

The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.

  The artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstrual.

Do we keep going around and around in circles.

Perception is subjective.

The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.

drehen wir uns immer nur im kreis.

An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own.
  
The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.

Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. 
There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.

 The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.

 There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious.
  
If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist's concept involved the material.

 Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

 It is difficult to bungle a good idea.

These sentences comment on art, but are not art.