Martin Gantman

Tag: Appropriation

  • Out of a Darkless Dawn

    It is an hour after the sun appears over the eastern horizon. The morning mist still blankets the landscape in front of you. It damps the ground; your skin and your hair, as well as the thoughts that screen through your mind. Partial images oscillate before you, from atop the surface to beneath – as they reside within the fog.

    Look closely. Zoom into these images. Things might appear – suddenly – as when there is fog …

    Darkless 5
    Darkless 7

    To see the entire Out of a Darkless Dawn project, go to https://gantman.com/visual-projects/appropriation-projects/out-of-a-darkless-dawn-17/

  • Empathic: the other self

    The other self watches us and comments on what we have done, what we are going to do, what we have done. It is critical in both negative and positive ways. It praises us, beseeches us, comforts us, and censures us.


    It is our parent, sibling, and friend. Always with us.

    To see the entire project, go to https://gantman.com/visual-projects/appropriation-projects/empathic-the-other-self/

    A new project by Martin Gantman.

  • Chicken Little: a new project by Martin Gantman

    “One day while Chicken Little was out walking, up in the sky a bird flew over and it dropped an acorn, and the acorn fell down and– bip– bopped him on his head. Chicken Little said “AWK! ” and looked up, and didn’t see anything, and he looked down and didn’t see anything. So he said “Help, help the sky is falling! Help, help the sky is falling! I have to tell the King!” And he went running down the road, looking for the King.”

    See Chicken Little at Gantman.com.

  • On Civilization

    Announcing the complete 32 chapter story of “On Civilization: the ever-unfolding marriage of Leowenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels”  is now live at HTTP://Gantman.com.

    NOTE: Click on the image on the Home Page to go to On Civilization.

     

  • On Civilization 32 (Denouement)

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

  • On Civilization 31

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

    It started slowly, bubbling up through the mosaic floors, and leaking beneath the inlaid doors, of the 17th century. Neither sandbags, nor tarps, nor monogrammed toweling – nor the gilded vestments of the supreme church, could stem the flow of the words of the Enlightenment. The talk was of reason and logic and the unheard-of thought of an individual’s right to authority over their own being.

    How could there possibly be a consummate culture when only a minuscule portion of the extant population was able to fully participate? Thus, flushed by the inexorable tide of new scientific discovery and secular thought, the struggle for an equitable and educated society, what some might characterize as the criteria for a civilization, had begun.

  • On Civilization 30

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

  • On Civilization 29

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

  • On Civilization 28

    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels

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    The Ever-unfolding Marriage of

    Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels