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Modern Art as Paranormal Experience

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Movement I , Wassily Kandinsky I was struck by something John Tenney said in a recent episode of What's Up, Weirdo – that the prefix para means beside or next to . So, the paranormal is just that: what is "next to" normal .  I had also just finished Tobias Wayland's Strange Tales of the Impossible , and one of the themes running through the book was how we don't know how to interface with or interpret the paranormal . “Normal” is mainly a function of the degree of exposure to something. Of course, for most people, UFOs, bigfoot, ghosts, and more mysterious phenomena like the Mothman are not common – not normal.  While many people believe in these things, the average person doesn't encounter them often, certainly not in daily life. The para-normal becomes such because it's not familiar to us in the way our local weather and wildlife are, for example.  Having given these thoughts a chance to percolate in my head, I realized that viewing modern and contempo
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Art As Psi, Radionic Art and A Question of Organizing Principles.

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The background in my line of inquiry began when considering ‘how do we create?” As someone who has gone through formal education as both a fine artist and graphic designer, it seems like there’s a point where formal training stops and creating the work falls to a different mechanism. When trying to explain it as a designer educator, I was at a loss for words that would do the mechanism of creation justice. The best I could do to explain to my students was to keep working and develop a sense for the right creative decisions. That by practicing their art they would refine their instinctual application of the creative decision-making process, which is continuous and ongoing in the creation of any work of art or design. What is the precise mechanism or mechanisms involved though? While it’s not been well-documented or studied, personal research has identified several key factors. The first as recently identified by Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger in her book The First Signs , is the huma
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