michael mullin

2011/07/20

Metaphysical Nihilism

Felt and Mirror

2011/07/17

two edges pushed to a corner/two edges removed from a corner

cadmium red, manganese violet

2011/07/17

dissolution of self

tar, gravel, mirrored mylar

2011/07/16

Symbolic Value Zero

A Buddha missing his middle and crowned by a telescope steps from petrified wood, away from itself and to the black mirrored surface. The surface is a 16 ft forced-perspective rectangle. At the horizon of the platform stands an Ainu ceremonial costume in the corner of the room. Supporting the platform and the costume is a tree branch of the same surface as the hallow figure, but reveals itself as a branch-in-itself which reaches back to the stone from which the figure steps.

2011/07/16

Where is the Bowman? (Folded Into)

Explication of 5-dimensionality. Performative parallax paradox paraphrased and pointed to. 1.2.3.4.5.

2011/07/15

Hey Hussy, I can’t see it or talk about it

2011/07/15

absolute time

detail of object which counteracts the rotation of earth within itself and orbits it’s own staticity by means of consequential ellipses

2011/07/14

Noise

The non-specific nature of noise forces our consciousness to resolve certain supposed dichotomies. Noise is amorphous, oceanic, and seems to mirror the feeling of non-specific dread that floods peoples minds while contemplating life, the world, and the future; yet it expresses a feeling of bliss. The spectrum of non-specific bliss ranges as widely as dread and occupies the space and question of what is health in the disquiet balance between escapism and liberation. There is tension intrinsic to the presupposed grey between these specifics. This tension is a void through which the subjective compression of thought, experience, and phenomena passes through. Reconciling this tension is the pursuit of truth.

2011/07/14

» Centerfold :: collaboration with Mike Treffehn

2011/05/03

2011/02/02

The human being is abandoned

; he and she are the future of themselves. In this realization, the realizing of a type of humanity is committed to. Through the dissolution of imposed realities and perceptions, we find that this abandonment is a humanism embedded in the aggregate of our consciousness. Abandonment is a humanism of present-ness and absolute freedom. It causes and constitutes our being-in-the-world as a question.

2011/01/09

» road trip america

2011/01/09

The Horizontal Human

This work is an equatorial platform designed for use by the human body. As an equatorial platform serves, this platform was attached to a motor system, which acted to counteract the rotation of earth for 6-hour increments. The viewer, with his or her back to the sand covered platform, could look at one point in the sky and be without time. In the shadow of the platform, a cube contains a book of writings called “The Horizontal Human: a transmutative language experiment”. The platform was never used and simply posed as a question.