Piloting and despooling The reality of JB’s confinement is suffocating. The air inside is thin, hot, and heavy with the scent of his own fear. His flight suit, usually a second skin, feels like a lead weight. Through the visor, he sees the control panel—a blur of familiar red and green warnings pulsing just inches away. His fingers twitch, aching to override the sequence, but the shimmering silver nanoweave holds him in a vice grip. He is a creature of action reduced to impotent stasis, staring at salvation he cannot touch. JB feels the phantom touch of ancient hands as they apply ceremonial linen over the nanoweave. The timeline collapses. He is no longer just a space tourist; he is a modern man drowning in the dust of the ancients, suspended in the liminal space between the cold silence of the cosmos and the heavy, golden air of the afterlife. As the pressure locks against his skull, the final thread snaps. It is the disintegration of the self. JB feels his history, his n...
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Consider THIS Gatekeeper
Gatekeepers in the art world determine what art is exhibited and made available to the public.
Gatekeepers include curators, gallerists, collectors, critics, and other art industry professionals.
Museums, galleries, and cultural institutions are often considered the primary Gatekeepers.
Curators play an influential role in selecting and organizing exhibitions.
As an independent artist, it is essential to recognize and consider the influence of these Gatekeepers.
Botticelli Gatekeepers
The Medici family played a significant role in shaping the art and culture of the Renaissance period and were critical patrons of the Arts in Florence.
Botticelli and other Renaissance artists navigated the values and expectations of their patrons to maintain financial support and avoid falling out of favour.
Botticelli's famous paintings, The Birth of Venus and Primavera, were sponsored by the Medici family and demonstrate their classical influence.
The church also significantly influenced Renaissance art and commissioned many works for religious buildings.
Botticelli's personal experience of false accusations and imprisonment inspired his painting, The Calumny of Apelles, which warns against false and malicious allegations and reminds us of the importance of safeguarding fairness and creativity.
Powerful and Influential Gatekeepers
In ancient Greece and Rome, wealthy individuals and institutions commissioned large-scale artworks for public and religious spaces, reflecting the ruling class's tastes, values, and interests.
Colonizing states utilized art for propaganda, promoting their culture and customs as superior to the local ones.
Classical art focuses on technical excellence, representations of gods and goddesses, historical and mythological narratives, the depiction of military achievements, and attention to detail and realism.
Patrons and institutions with considerable resources and power can influence cultural narratives and advance their interests, values, and agendas through commissioning or purchasing works of art.
The decisions of gatekeepers, such as wealthy patrons and powerful institutions, significantly impact artwork creation. Is it a formalized process for independent artists to seek commissions in patronage?
How the Powerful Influence Artists
Wealthy and powerful business and political leaders have influenced the art world by commissioning classical works of art that reflected their ideals of wealth, good taste, and cultural heritage.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, wealthy patrons favoured classical themes and techniques demonstrating their moral purpose, wealth, power, and cultural sophistication through their art acquisitions.
In the 18th to 19th century, wealthy patrons favoured Rococo and neoclassical styles, which reflected their belief in the classical tradition and conveyed a message of stability, order, and permanence.
The rise of industrialization and globalization in the 19th century allowed artists to become more independent, sell their works directly to private collectors and institutions, and explore new styles and techniques.
In the 20th century, a new class of merchants, industrialists, and bankers emerged who acquired innovative art to reflect their creativity, innovation, and impact on society, shaping the artistic direction and promoting artistic freedom and creativity through their support of innovative artists.
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Puppet Master The narrow, high-walled passage swallowed the sound of my boot scraping a broken cobblestone, the echo sharp in the dry air. Above, a sliver of unforgiving sunlight cut down, carving deep shadows where the damp, mossy scent of the gully was now replaced by the smell of dust and ancient stone. I paused, looking not just at my gloved hand—the leather scuffed from my descent, but at what was attached to it. Thin, nearly invisible lines, like high-tensile wires , stretched from the articulated cuff on my wrist and disappeared into the air above the path. I tracked them with my eyes until they converged on a small, stone figure standing motionless in the centre of the walkway. It was a crude marionette , barely a foot tall, carved from the same pale, cracked stone as the surrounding walls. Dressed in a simple tunic, its blank, oval face held a radiating sense of expectant waiting. Its arms were held out, palms up. I held the strings. Yet, the feeling was not one of cont...
Psychological Anchors The characters thus embody the classic dichotomy between logic/control (BK) and emotion/instinct (JB), a tension that becomes central to their survival when their advanced technology fails and they are forced into the realm of the psychological (the anomaly). They represent two vital, yet opposing, parts of the human response to existential chaos : the attempt to catalogue and talk through the terror, versus the primal urge to act and accept the turmoil. Psychological Anchors video What's the real story behind space tourists BK and JB ? Their identities are in constant flux—changing race, age, and form. Host Alex and guest Dr. V dive deep into this "multiverse" concept to explore the two constant, warring psychologies at the heart of the Subi crew : BK: The ultimate planner, driven by logic and an internal narrator . JB: The ultimate instinct, driven by raw, non-verbal emotion and anxiety . How does a logical mind handle " Paraknowing "—...
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