The Western Gate

Plagiarism defined as copying the works of others, but what if that work is messed up, screwed up, torn, restuck and reused. Scrap book art, a montage of ideas. Cut and Paste, the art of the punk, re-sampling, editing and remastering;-

Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919) Hannah Hoch  (1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978)

Academy’ (2012) Peter Blake ~ (1932-Present)

Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different? (1956) Richard Hamilton (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011)

Never Mind The Bollocks Poster (1977) Jamie Reid -(1947-2023)

Feeding of the 5000~ Crass Album Artwork (1978) Gee Vaucher (1945-present)

Three Works ~ Untitled ~From a series ‘Womankind’ (2019) Maria Acha-Kutscher (1968-present)

Untitled ‘Castle’ (2022) Jim Kazanjian ~ (1968-Present)

Untitled ‘Temple’ (2012) Jim Kazanjian ~ (1968-Present)

Now what has this got to do with the blog? it is a metaphor for New Age religion, bolt on hypothesis, appropriation of cultures that seem to have something fanciful you can use in your design and thereby assimilate. Is that wrong, really? In essence the hive mind of everything is still one thing, The Queen. Evolution is all about taking whatever is needed to survive and evolve, the physical will soon respond. Chaos magic will take whatever from wherever, even if it is fiction (e.g. Lovecraft) and determine that, it works!
The Artworks above, stitch together a tapestry of ideas such that the end result is something that stirs within us a response, a knowing that what we are seeing is something that resonates with us, as archetypes do. An equilibrium we have no control over because we are a part of it.
It shows that we do not need to be a master of one thing or another. Just as a non musician can sample, splice and edit to create his own musical works without any knowledge of how to play music so the creative within can cut, paste and formulate our own work, where the end result symbolises some aspect that we are trying to express.
The magician or philosopher within us, likewise, will see in all the comparative religions, philosophies and psychological essays some common ground that resonates, even if a sentence is taken from this tome, and a paragraph from that, an exercise from here and a mantra from there, whose combination gives us a whole view that we have been seeking.

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