Table of Contents: Prologue The Lionsgait The Wellhead of all Context The LAD and a Hybrid’s ASS A La Ad Hoc Meta Metaphoric Cognitive Reach Innate Syntax The Metaphorical Rubicon Prologue Throwing down the gauntlet … Generally, I write artist statements to establish some semblance of clarity about my creative […]
The personified hook, the entire hypothetical line of BS & SYMBOLIC SINKER!
In the tradition of Mark Twain’s satirical wit, Dalpe chronicles a debate in the form of a Platonic dialogue between two friends, Becky and Tom, who wrestled with the age old dilemma of artists relationship with society; namely, that it doesn’t exist. Their exchange was an amusing anecdote that compared the […]
Seaman Bartleby & The Bloody Color Revolution!
by Edmund W. Dalpe, BA. MFA, Copyright 2021. A storm was brewing toward the end of a winter’s day in the North Atlantic. Visibility became limited, and the Commander of a navel task force in the region ordered all vessels into the wind, to double the watch, and batten down the […]
Rebrand, Repackage, Relaunch!
By Edmund W. Dalpe, BA. MFA. ©July 4, 2021. The Noose is Hanging An Immaculate Infection In Flagrante Delicto Lilliputian Primacy The Wrecking Crew Bibliography The Noose is Hanging: Most are familiar with the so called artist statements we have been inundated with –ad nauseam. However, I would like to introduce […]
It’s Only Words!
ILL-0: PLF, (Programmed Life Forms (academics)). Dalpe © 2018 An epistemological satire from the Stone-Age to the present day characterized as a riposte to the one bad-guy that every creative type loves to hate, an academic (PLF)! When the dust finally settles, and all is said and done, academia is stripped […]
SAPIENS: NO GOOD DEED …
By Edmund Dalpe, MFA., an excerpt from his latest work, Dream Duet © 2018 Hypothetical Thinking. You know, the IF-THEN construct! Dalpe © 2018 … from soup to the nuts running the buffet. Incidentally, my way of thinking about how to do things is not original. That is, the dialogue between my two […]
MYTHEPISTEMOLOGY
1.1: Mythepistemology. Dalpé © 2014-18 By Edmund Dalpe, MFA., an excerpt from his latest work, Dream Duet © 2018 If epistemology asks questions about how do we know what we know, mythepistemology, i.e., mythological belief, is its scuttling, as it casts all such riddles to the deep-six. From which subsequent queries and […]
THE SECOND LANGUAGE, THE SOCIAL LANGUAGE: ART.
By Edmund Dalpe, MFA., an excerpt from his latest work, Dream Duet © 2018 3.14: Altamira Bison, Standing Fetal. Dalpe © 2014-18 The earth’s Northern winds may huff and puff, … but, we’re not going to give in, by the hair of our chinny chin chins! … Before I delve deeper into the syntax of […]
The Long Reflection of the Lioness
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Dream Duet
PURCHASE – The Lion’s Gait is a metaphorical expression established during the age of Chauvet; a golden age, when human beings first exhibited an amazing clarity of social vision. That’s what my work Dream Duet is all about, building mind bridges; bridging the modern trained mind with the ancient metaphorical, the conscious with the […]
Linguistic Determinism: Ars Gratia Lingua
PURCHASE – Conceptual artist, Edmund Dalpe, holds that language is a complex form of the First Language (Art), which becomes apparent when we want to use language but can not. Whenever we are at a loss for words, we find ourselves at the kernel of language –metaphor. Dreams, language and art, […]