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AWARE_BUT_THERE

                                        February 24, 2011

Something I found
myself saying recently:                            MELANCOLY_TRAP

   What I find interesting about this work:
   a love for genre, self-aware but not
   paralyzed by it's self-consciousness.
   Inside and outside, but still somewhere.

That's a thought I have often,
in different forms...                               AVENGING_RAND
                                      SUNDAY_CAMP
                        NULL_HINGED
                                                       TOO_CLOSE_TOO_FAR
  Interesting art often has a sense of
  being deeply engaged with the
  material, and yet also standing           MELANCOLY
  outside of it, commenting on it...
                                                        GOTHPUNK
     It rises out of a knowledge of history,
     there's an acknowledgement that it is
     not the first of it's kind; but it           It is never merely
     cares about what it is, it wants to be       satire or spoof,
     another addition to a body of work           (though it may very
     larger than itself.                          well contain elements
                                                  of satire).
  Capable of self-criticism,
  without feeling flawed                              It "shows a fondness"
  or inferior...                                      for the thing
                                                      commented on.
          It is self-aware but
          has no self-contempt.



That quality of being inside and outside
at the same time is fascinating.               The people who
                                               only stand inside
In art and outside of art.                     don't know where
                                               they are.
   (Presuming that one can
   get outside of art.)                            The people who try to
                                                   only stand outside...

                                                     Either they don't
                                                     know what they're
                                                     talking about, or
                                                     they really do, and
                                                     don't want to admit
                                                     that they know, and
                                                     either way, why
                                                     would you care?

                                                     Why is anyone ever
                                                     impressed by that
                                                     posturing?


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