About MNP
I had been considering updating or changing the blogging platform I was using.
In the process of finally deciding on WordPress, I also decided to use the blog form in a different way, taking into focus the media — an ocean in which we all swim; using default media formulas in the presentation of events as a scaffolding, and then adding drawings I was doing at the time — image and text inhabiting the same psychic space, temporally at least.
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Some further thoughts and associations as I proceeded — connections I made as I went along:
- Mashups and Burroughs’ cut-ups.
- Nonsense inspired by Jabberwocky and images from the daily draw.
- A portrait of consciousness, weaving our interior lives, our dreams, misunderstandings, personal narratives, with the exterior dreams of the society, as provided by media formulas.
- An affirmation of the imagination.
- The incredible power of suggestive images and text to call associations.
- Trusting, rather than condescending to the audience.
- An affection for the eccentric and ambiguous over conventional declaration and received notions.
- A playful exploration of text and imagery.
- Saroyan’s “The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze” — a drawing a day, a story a day.
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Ira Altschiller is an artist working in California.
