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Joshua Healey Lapena
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reinterpreted their structures and colors. This is
not like a dream, as with surrealism, but a
connection or attitude within a collective
unconscious. It is personal in its interpretation, but
not in its experience. Jung says that dreams are
about the subjective, being in a synthetic unity
with itself, while the objective is analytical and
breaks it down into memory. Yes, I am interested
in the mythology of scientific thinking; the idea of
scientific theories having little evidence. Even
though scientific theories have the proofs, their
reasoning can be found to fail when confronted
with their own mythology. Theories on a global
agenda like, global warming, AI, the big bang all
cultivate mythological ideas of being and anti-
design while abducting them. That is, much is
made of refuting others beliefs as opposed to
falsifying them. Theories emerge out of evidence
that comes together in the form of opinions. This is
how I deconstruct those opinions; as images,
which my experience holds a deep attachment
too. Since there is no desire, I believe the work
also functions as an autonomous aesthetic. I find
myself reacting to the norm that valuable art
answers or follows the public folk psychology;
being an enquiry into moral, historical, religious or
political ideals. My freedom to explore the
juxtaposition of these phenomena is not just about
discovering a connection, but also self-
preservation. Without my own rules for the
composition of such a language, how can I know
myself?
The colors in my juxtaposed works get their
vibrancy from being built up; the errors are
covered up by something close to a glossy
photographic finish. The surface hides the layout
of pencil required so I do not have to worry about
the composition and can focus on the colors.
Often, I work from darker colors back to lighter
ones; in many SF movies’ it is the darkness which
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