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The horizon, the hills and valleys, the flow of water, the shape of rocks, plants and animals, and the human figure are composed of curves. Nature is curved with few exceptions. The straight lined, angular, man-made world sharply contrasts with the natural world.
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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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.
“I Can’t Breathe”
Curvism Creatures
Cubism to Curvism
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.
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.
Landscapes (Wood)
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.
Shadow Selfies 2005-2015
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.
Jesus the Helpless Baby
We need to remember it is only by receiving that we have anything to give.
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.