Kev Ferrara

Taste functions at a deeper level than design.

Great artists work the suspense. Jumping to resolutions is an anxiety reaction; an easy way out of the lonely and tense stress of creation.

Using fear-mongering, hatecraft, and stress-agitation techniques recruits the neurotic, obsessive, bitter, credulous, and cowardly.

Humans have always communicated in grunts, buzzwords, emojis, memes, gifs, logos, clothing, and diagrams.

Prisms revealed all colors to be derived of pure white light. Naturally one extrapolates that every wave frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum - from radio to gamma - must also derive from a singular unified source; a source far brighter and more pure than the whitest light.

Really talented people shouldn't bother trying to innovate because they will do so naturally. Self-conscious innovators scramble expressive structural forms they don't actually understand in order to garner public or in-group attention. x.com/FerraraKev/sta…

Your attention becomes you.

Mass insanity is always first presumed to be mass sanity.

Banalysis - The intellectual product of an untalented and uninsightful egotist as he tries to show that he understands how a great work, far beyond his grasp or abilities, was accomplished.

Guilt exerts hydrostatic pressure on the guilty. Tapped guilt fills the locked room of the soul like a rising tide. When the tide of guilt reaches the mouth the eyes panic. The bedeviled decry/reveal their past sins only to mask that those same sins are still ongoing.

Every great work of art is innovative; a step forward. Also meaningful and alive; living now and then tomorrow again, and then the next day and on and on. Alive so long as we and it exist. Meanwhile fashions and styles come and go. To chase them is also to come and go.

A private collector sold Frazetta’s Famous Funnies #214 on Heritage Auctions today for $1,035,000! Incredible! Still breaking records, grandpa! 🥲

The geometries underlying existence smack of math bc math was invented to calculate geometry. Math is the map not the terrain. To chase the math beyond the known terrain is like continuing the lines of a map off the page and expecting to describe what hasn't yet been explored.

The artifacts of risk and triumph inhere to the plastic material (as it is molded into a work of art) the same as the artifacts of physicality, personality, thought, and mood do. x.com/FerraraKev/sta…

If you don't feel the risk in the making of a work of art it isn't any good. Risk in composition, performance, personal investment, craftsmanship, subject, style, commerciality, and form.

My last and greatest artistic hero has gone.

Political theater attracts the worst playwrights.

Temptation is what happens when the abyss gazes back into you and finds a weak spot.

The similarity of Genius and Madness is in the compulsion to connect presumably disparate concepts through epiphany into a single idea. The difference is only the former's links have justification. Stress can break the mind's ability to justify its intuited connections.

Narrative Art requires a frontier, a secret place, a hidden network, a unique introspection or mindset to explore and bring forward. A.I. as a pastiche engine can't go there. But it can glut the bottleneck by which people become interested in the latest targets of narrative art.

'Lofty Breakaway Society' is exactly the idea. Hypermod glass/steel Intl. Style bldg, ascetic cult monk robes, sophisticated chat/cuisine, controlling world's fate, servants obedient, masked, bowing, sexual perversity for entertainment, no dissent, no forbidden words, no comedy.