"Cognitive Libertines", Oil on Panel, 20 x 25 cm, 2008.

The title is a riff on "Cognitive Liberty".
As long as there is a world to be known there are those who will never know when there is already too much to be known, and their unbridled perception, their wanton understanding, will debauch their consciousness, and brand them as profligates wandering in the splendor of their own hallucinations, or, to be more succinct, "Cognitive Libertines."

This title was, of course, an afterthought - I had nothing so grandiose in mind to begin with. Actually the painting is just embellished marginalia culled form old journals and cooked up as an exercise in oil painting. These days I am turning more attention to painting and so I am striving to refine my technique before endeavoring in larger and more ambitious works.

Now that I have sufficiently de-mystified the painting, and reduced it to a hum-drum technical exercise I'd like it to be known that prints are available. These would be limited edition digital prints made with archival inks. If you are interested please contact the artist.

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