What is the Churn of the Unmade? Metamodernist art by JJFBbennett It isn’t just paint; it’s the heavy, exhausting gravity of pure affectation. I applied these deep purples and stark whites with a thick palette knife, wanting you to feel the weight of the medium itself—the messy, chaotic over-saturation of our digital lives, the constant noise. It’s dense, tactile, and completely overwhelming. But The chaos is interrupted by a line of perfect, unyielding geometry. A clear glass ring slicing straight through the noise. This physical ring stands as the initial boundary of awareness. On one side, the suffocating density of raw human expression and digital noise; on the other, a clean, projected window into an idealised, quiet simplicity. Where does the noise end, and where does our awareness truly begin? The glass ring doesn't just divide the canvas; it bridges two entirely different eras of the soul. Look to the left. You see that heavy, anxious abstract expr...
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Between Peaks and Valleys: A Journey Within
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We march forward.
We march forward.
Each step stirs dust into the air—still, unmoving, heavy air.
Our silhouettes stretch long, etched across twilight mountains.
The sun—neither fully risen nor set—pauses, and hovers.
A witness. A silent guardian. Beginnings and endings, both here and distant.
Between peaks, between valleys, we walk.
We move together, but alone. Each of us.
Each step is ours, yet shared.
No words, no destination. No destination is spoken aloud.
We are suspended. Suspended in transit,
where time unravels, where place dissolves, where movement lingers, without end.
This space—this space between past and future—
This is the place. This is the sacred space.
Each step is an act of faith. Each step is a leap into the unknown.
The mountain pulls at us—its shadow reaching, grasping, holding.
But light pulls, too. Light on the horizon, a promise. A call we cannot ignore.
The burden we carry is more than we thought.
It is more than weight. It is more than distance.
Unanswered questions. Deferred dreams. The hope—hope of arrival.
Courage leads us forward. Our courage.
A beacon in the twilight. We move forward. We must move forward.
Step by step. Together. But alone.
We climb the ridges of possibility.
We descend into valleys of doubt.
And each step—each step—is a silent mantra:
Keep moving. Keep moving. This, too, is part of becoming.
The journey is not through mountains alone.
It is not across valleys alone.
The journey is within. The journey is through us—shifting, moulding,
changing, just as the terrain shifts and moulds beneath us.
At this threshold, we are neither lost nor found.
We are becoming.
We walk in the in-between. Here, in the middle of it all.
And so we walk. And so we walk. Not toward a place,
but toward becoming.
Each step whispers, “Here we are. Here we are. In the middle.
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