Dangerous Minerals
Dangerous Minerals
Artists are intensely interested in their medium – how it works and what it does. Nonetheless, for reasons of health and safety, certain dangerous minerals should be used sparingly or avoided altogether. It is important to remember these insidious substances can have deleterious psychotropic effects.
Formalite
Induces metaphor blindness.
Emotate
Dulls the faculty of taste.
Interventionide
Produces delusions that politicking, social engineering, and giving advice are actually art.
Conceptualine
Leads to the pedantic.
Careerblende
Initiates manic socializing, buttonholing, and paranoid thinking.
Aestheticlase
Aggravates the over-assessment of the precious.
Automataspar
Results in an intense interest in the appearance of one’s work while also feeling very little responsibility for that appearance.
Theoryte
Brings on fatigue, weakness, and an over-concern with context.
Mimeseum
Generates art-object blindness.
Expressionane
Causes stupidity and mendacity, but please don’t misunderstand. Art does involve self-expression, that’s where futility comes in. Futility is the great strength of self-expression.
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[all text and images, Steve Armstrong, http://wegway.ca/ ]