Liya Jin
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Liya Jin
- The German term Gesamtkunstwerk , roughly translates as a "total work of art" and describes an artwork, design, or creative process where different art forms are combined to create a single cohesive whole. The idea was popularized by the composer Richard Wagner who argued for the "consummate artwork of the future," where "No one rich faculty of the... See more
from Gesamtkunstwerk - Modern Art Terms and Concepts
- In our everyday 3D lives, we apply force to matter and get predictable results. We unpack groceries, chop garlic, and switch on a stovetop to boil water for spaghetti. These familiar objects appear to be inert. They do what you make them do. But this model doesn’t port to inner moves. In the subtle realms of mind and emotion, applying force creates... See more
- Abilene Paradox is a phenomenon in which a group of people collectively agrees on a course of action that is contrary to the preferences of the individual group members. In other words, everyone in the group goes along with a decision that no one truly wants to make.
My body … in constant negotiation with the bodies of the world beyond me, at the shifting edges where my skin bleeds into others
even now, fresh tears make my vision waltz, with loving grief
“Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a tool
... See more“The trouble with human happiness is that it is constantly beset by fear,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her incisive Augustine-lensed meditation on love and loss, and nowhere is our happiness more beset by fear than in our fear of change.
life necessitates contradictions to ever recreate itself.