Writings 2007 - 2020

Written By Steve Firkins

Essays, stories and journal writings from Curvism: The Journey Continues, thoughts on art, nature, 21st century culture and spirituality.

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The Filmmakers movie is happening!
The Filmmakers movie is happening!
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On Metamodernism and Curvism
On Metamodernism and Curvism

Curvism is the word I have been using for over forty years to describe an art concept that takes us into a more hopeful future. Like metamodernism, Curvism is a reaction to both modernism and postmodernism. Curvism, however, goes further back to include an understanding of premodern times, not fully accounted for by metamodernism.

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The New Green Homestead Program
The New Green Homestead Program

The Earth needs healing from a history of human misuse, abuse, destruction, and greed. Humans need to quickly act together to stop global warming. I believe that a New Green Homestead Program can help begin a process of healing nature and the Earth. It can help achieve a better balance between nature and human culture.

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On Civil Disobedience 2020
On Civil Disobedience 2020

Each of us is capable of doing much much more to change the world for the better than just casting an occasional vote. Thoreau and Gandhi advocated and set examples for using our whole being for being the change we want to see happening in our world.

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THE FILMMAKERS Movie Pitch
THE FILMMAKERS Movie Pitch

The clock is ticking. The Earth is about to erupt. Can two aliens inspire three reporters to motivate 7 1/2 billion people to save themselves from climate change? It’s the human race against the clock!

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Sundance Snowman 2020
Sundance Snowman 2020

Firkins is an artist who works in “curvism,” a concept he created to celebrate the roundness and fluidity of nature. It led him to writing a movie script called “The Filmmakers.” The movie starts as science fiction then turns into a documentary about the consequences of climate change and possible solutions.

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The Filmmakers Movie
The Filmmakers Movie

Aliens contact reporters to film a news conference about the imminent threat of climate change and request the reporters make a documentary exploring the aliens’ solutions.

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Total Eclipse
Total Eclipse

A shadow sweeps across the earth. There's a ring around the sun now. Totality! Beautiful, beautiful beautiful. Awesome! Stillness. Complete silence. I stand and stare into the black hole and ring of light.

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Curvism: The Curved Worldview
Curvism: The Curved Worldview

The art and philosophy of Curvism creates a conceptual framework and model to identify and explain the problems of world history and what seems to be missing. Curvism points the direction for moving forward into a more hopeful future.

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A Show of Art
A Show of Art

I make art for the fun of it not for the funds from it. I make art to change my world. I’ve given up on the idea of making a living from my art. I still however hold on to the wish to change the world with my art.

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Curvism: Beyond Postmodernism
Curvism: Beyond Postmodernism

Postmodernism killed and replaced Modernism in the mid-1960s. Postmodernism has been dying since the turn of the century. What comes next? What best describes the changes that are taking place in art and culture?

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Revisions of Genesis
Revisions of Genesis

Revisions of Genesis contains seven variations of the original two creation stories found in the book of Genesis. Christians, Jews and Muslims all share the same creation story of God creating the world and the first humans Adam and Eve.

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GOD AND THE SCIENTIST
GOD AND THE SCIENTIST

God came to Earth in a spaceship. God had been traveling a long, long time, looking for the perfect place to live. He was on a journey looking for Heaven. While searching for Heaven, God discovered Earth.

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Winter 2011
Winter 2011

I am an artist. There are many other things that I am but my main source of adult identity has come from being an artist. But what is an artist and who determines who is an artist?

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Workers’ Capitalism
Workers’ Capitalism

By spreading the wealth more to workers, they consume more, save more, and become investors and stock owners. Eventually more money circulates through the economy creating continued coordinated sustained growth in the economy, jobs, and the stock market, that benefits all, not just the rich.

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Biography
Biography

I was born in 1954 during the great American baby boom. I grew up in Blue Earth, Minnesota, on the gently rolling plains in the south central part of the state. I was deeply affected by the vast expanse of ever changing earth and sky.

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Artist Statement
Artist Statement

Curvism seeks to move out of the square, rectangular, cubed world and into the sphere of the curved line, the circle and the ellipse.

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Jesus the Helpless Baby
Jesus the Helpless Baby

We need to remember it is only by receiving that we have anything to give.

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It’s Still Not too Late
It’s Still Not too Late

Woe is me. Oh, the world of buying and selling. Is there no escape?

I look out my window. I see blue sky and colored leaves. It’s still a beautiful day. I think I’ll return to the woods and take my family with me. It’s still not too late.

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Jesus the Economist
Jesus the Economist

Our current capitalistic system is immoral. Capitalism has corrupted human nature and is killing the planet. We can no longer afford this type of economy. Capitalism as we know it is ending. The economic philosophy of Jesus offers us a new way forward.

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Off the Road
Off the Road

I love to get out of the cubical world and into the light. I love to see my shadow. I am my shadow and my shadow is me. We are connected. When I see my shadow I know I am alive and standing in the light. My shadow and I are dependent on the light for our existence. Without light, we die.

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My dog is my Zen Master
My dog is my Zen Master

I love the way my dog seems so alive, awake and aware when we go into the woods, to the river. He is such an animal. I’m stuck being human. I’ve forgotten my animal nature. It has been almost completely programmed out of me by our modern, computerized, commercialized consumer culture.

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Into the Woods

Again my dog and I go out into the woods; me to escape my job working in a basement office cubicle under fluorescent lights behind a computer screen; my dog to escape the confines of being a domesticated house dog. We go to the woods seeking the wild.

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Election 2008 Begins

I believe America is ready for its next unstoppable revolution in democracy. Will this be the year the non-voters elect themselves as representatives of American democracy and overthrow the rich and powerful controllers of America's government?

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No Cause for Alarm

Who needs a natural environment when we can live and do live in our own controlled world.

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