Texts

A book-length philosophical work in fifteen parts on how inherited prejudice and social convention confine the self, and on the “dissolution of the self” as a way out. Moving between argument, aphorism and verse, it takes in morality, aesthetics, presence, identity and death.

1. I. Looking in the Periphery
2. II. Traditional Placard
3. III. Mother Tongue
4. IV. Schematics - “Blueprint on his First Term”
5. V. In Moderation
6. VI. My Fending Wade
7. VII. Keep the Sod
8. VIII. Lost Pages of the Principled Monger
9. IX. Guttural
10. X. Recoup and Resell [Age-Old Death Markers]
11. XI. 11th Stamp of Recognition

1. I. End For (Quellings)
2. II. Ballad of the Schema
3. III. In Moderation (II)
4. IV. Chrome Case: An Infernal Setting
5. V. Confine[s,d]
6. (0.0-1.1). Break (I)
7. V. Baseless
8. IV. Penchant
9. III. Reparations / Confrontation
10. II. Authority
11. I. Commencement (Uprising)

An essay proposing that neither a return to moral systems nor pure anti-foundationalism can answer a fractured intellectual world, and that value is instead built from the collisions between incompatible positions. Its final section turns to art, arguing that the space between forms, not their resolution, is where aesthetic experience happens.

1. I. Self-Portrait (I)
2. II. House of Ivory
3. III. Paris (Neuilly-s/S)
4. IV. The Cost of Selling Winged Bombs
5. V. Foreigner
6. VI. Workshop* / Between Screens
7. VII. Of Prejudice, On Piper

An essay on the thinning of form in contemporary painting, arguing that absence is not a negation but a structuring part of the work. It considers how text and narration carry a painting’s presence beyond the canvas, so that meaning accumulates across a body of work rather than resolving in any single piece.

1. I. In Moderation (III) / Opening
2. II. Announcement (Discourses)
3. III. Tracheas & Foreign Currency
4. IV. Check.1 / Pioneer
5. V. Plains of Wheat Grow Taller Out West
6. VI. Interlude
7. VII. Santo. / The Slip.
8. VIII. Archive / Out of Production (No Signal)
9. IX. White River, Outflows

1. I. International.Acclaim
2. II. Registered
3. III. New Poet / Performance
4. IV. Off the Record
5. V. Arrival to.

1. I. I just want to make paintings for you.
2. II. On the solace of sipping tea.
3. III. Room state.
4. IV. Rain, continuously.
5. V. A slow drown.