Down The Memory Lane

Hello,


So I've received the results of my latest scans:


1 - there is no trace of cancer

2 - the kidney show no evidence of malfunction (no loss of fluids)

3 - the belly hernia is non-strangulating (not in a urgent need to be operated)



Of course, the usual mention that I'm an extra-terrestrial because my vena cavea and my aorta cross as an X, and all my circular system is reversed, kind of like I am a living reversed photocopy of a normal human being.


I must say: I was pretty worried because I felt dizzy this past season, and my blood tests are showing that my creatinine is increasing. We will have to check that creatinine closely (I hate urology tests!), but there is a possibility that I'm doing a light form of chest angina. And so, you know, high cholesteral and all
that are pretty common problems.


I have one year left of frequent testing. After that they only see me each 2 years
for 2 or 3 other times as possibilities of cancer returning dramatically decrease.
But the first year is the most important to go through.


Right now I'm in the process of going through all my archives. Putting together the materials of exhibits I've seen, articles I've read, and works I've done (most never exhibited). Every objects I ever acquired is passing through my hands.


I plan to move out from where I am and find a larger place to live, so that's a step towards that. So I will still be off the artworld for a few months. In fact, I don't think I'll be back to my normal rhythm of pre-2006 until January 2009, and by then a lot of things might have changed (I still haven't completely given up the idea of simply show art and stop babbling about it).

So that is not great news for this blog, because I can't see much motives in keeping it active in a near future, but I'll sporadically come here to write about the most fantastic things I see (I still plan a trip to New York by February, if not December), and also write about some of the old findings, maybe write a couple words about old shows that everybody has forgotten.


As mentioned before I also have plans to study 3D animations in 2008.
Lord Of The Rings Online is one of the great art piece of 2007,
wrether you like it or not. There is a shift in social design that
these system offer that shouldn't be underestimated by artists.
Romanticism just don't seem to want to die. I used to think
people defending neo-masterism in art as the only valuable
avenue (for the near future) were speaking bollocks, but I never
understood that they are other ways to neo-masterism than painting.
We are close to the technology that will make possible the engulfing
of a viewer inside a Reubens. Would it be that people would preferably
seek to get engulfed inside a De Kooning? That seems unlikely to me,
for now. I just see romanticism as refusing to die, and as sucessfully
having found all means to bypass art which rejected it, and remain
vital in the global conscious. There is an aesthetic to dreaming,
and one that has hardly ever changed since millenaries. Why
have contemporary artists been trying to reason everything, and
aim against the natural flow of dreams?

Maybe art was never supposed to make you think, maybe
it's supposed to make you dream.






Cheers,

Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com


PS: I know I'll hate that last sentance in 2 days. Just let me be in my kid mind's bubble for 2 minutes.