LOIS PALFRAMAN
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1.5.26 In which I learnt to see pictures. eg Cecily Brown- Serpentine. At first glance lovely nature but on consideration no I dont see nature like that- chaotic overwhelming, scary. I see it as friendly with lovely things coming towards me, in movement or significance. (and later at Green Park leafy yellow greens and a black child's pink balloon allowing me a friendly kick!)
As for Michaelina Wautier (R.A.)-androgynous, genius shows her contemporary male painters to be mere tryers. Did she die? while painting because her representations have life, in their being. Best the series of the senses showing the democracy of the senses and of bible scenes showing the bible story to be 'only' art. (Art trumps religion) and image trumps trump. ..the image is the thing that words can never show (Cy Twombly on his death bed) 'Invented and made' she said. Possibly couldn't think outside religion at that time (17th C)
Artists should first be philosophers (Badiou) and control how they see... Nature as the enemy needing to be controlled is very old now- control of resources, of women... and just not positive- one should be flexible. Next researching Mirandola, from a conversation at 'conspiracies' at Warburg Institute. -no origins only beginnings. the holes in the police accident reports . Action and unruly association..
Modernism- art that says something- makes the claim to universal truth e.g. cubist way of seeing. In 1990s I was trying to say something with my artwork about sexism, racism, nature, with figurative art.
Postmodernism-all is relative. There is no universal truth. Death of the author- the viewer makes the truth of the artwork, e.g. monochrome canvases. In 2000s my artwork was abstract, minimalist, beautiful-austere, an-ethical, trying to say nothing. Freeing the viewer to respond. Where was Lois in this? - inevitably suggesting but resisting any authorial domination because: - ‘there is no truth as everyone knows…’
Postpostmodernism- there is no truth- there are plural truths-within frames of time and space. The reemergence of the author-art that says something but does not claim universality. Framing is essential and performatism (not performance which is essentially theatrical) -the inevitability of acting personal truths. (correlationist-mind-body). In 2025 I discovered postpostmodernism and realised what I had felt was wrong with my artwork. Reading Sloterdijk, Badiou and especially Raoul Eshelman who I was in communication with for a while (‘Performatism or the end of Postmodernism’ 2008). Being non dialectic and subculturally meditative. Postpostmodernism sees authorship- there are truths that can be chosen, connections made, with an optimistic, positive, ethical outlook. The artwork is framed to hold, restrain, and focus so as to be intense.
Over a month collecting significant perceptions. (Significance is connected to traumatic memory and in this I am inspired by psychoanalyst and artist Bracha Ettinger. She is concerned with ethics and aesthetics- a postpostmodernist stance). The significant perceptions are realised as photos (gathered from creative commons) or drawings and then arranged performing the ethical theme. The result is pretty rather than beautiful.
flexibility of connections and associations. Postpostmodernist- creating ethical values. The collage is of vernacular representations of the state of already presented, mixed with line and colour suggesting subjective personal individual connections-new presentations-that could realise ethical values. The infinite void of possibilities within the visual senses allows for freedom in thinking and actions, in situations.
monthly (loosely based on the time line of the moon-connection to tides, sap, and blood) collections of significances. Translated into drawings and photos from creative commons. A monthly ethical theme realised performatistically in arranging the elements on the 20 x 20 cm canvas panel. The scale is the size of reading philosophy. Framed to contain the work clearly as individual art and separate from non-art surroundings.
17.4.26 Small 20 x 20cm sq. (framed 22cm sq.) collage-creative commons photos and drawings on canvas panel. Framing is important to delineate clearly as a piece of art, working individually. Monthly I collect intense perceptions and then arrange them. The complexity and subtlety of connections giving hope, peace, freedom, responsibility- these are the themes.
Inspired by the intensity and silence of traumatic memories, out of context and needing context to process them and integrate with normal memory. Subcultural meditation-frequent mind-body meditation-correlationist-to enable healthy mind and body response to personal and world trauma.
14.4.26 traumatic memory and normal memory. (Bessel van der Kolk) TM- unusual-fragments. no sense of time or place. or context. (Kant is pragmatic) intense, persistent, clear, silent, traum-as in dream, subconscious. TM is similar to art and nature. - the most effective- freeing, meditative, supporting.
therefore the process is:- collect any intense, persistent, clear, silent, traum/dream fragments that happen to perception- in memory, or external- under themes- hope, peace, responsibility, significance, freedom.... gather them together monthly- some as photos, some as drawings. an author makes connections, the viewer is the author also. the style of the english language is problematic (masculine, anal-jobs, etc....)
28.3.26 If people want to be martyrs, want to die, and others are kind enough to respond as the martyrs wish, then its the end of people. but if killing people is essentially bad for ones soul, or inner life, then this is a reason not to kill those who wish to be martyrs. is this the problem with the religious wars?
i have a lovely warm palestinian scarf. it will keep me warm in the ensuing fuel shortages. soft power- trying to be friends with people. supporting them rather than killing. looking after myself in good capitalist fashion. but its only a print and not embroidered. working on the hope tree for March. interested in the cedar of lebanon flag. is it down to trees and nature versus high tech and manipulation (heidegger)/ hatred? Rosa Luxemburg connected her love of nature-( made a herbarium while in prison before being executed )-with capitalism. but dont want communism either. too often hungry these days.
21.3.26 artwork is about seeing. intense perceptions- visual and mental are collected and put together in pretty random arrangement so that new, alternative, positive connections can be made to escape the continuum of so called capitalist progress under the power of the axiomatic set theoretical numbers.
20.3.26 learning classical greek, again, to think. cant think in english language, apart from the authoritarian aspect, or simply because of the... also working on hope tree, for March. thinking about rationality. need a rational centre for this. may be rational numbers, looked at Cy Twombly again, forever returning to him- the image is the thing that words can never do. axiomatic set theory. cant think presentation and representation simultaneously. there was axioms creating counting and god. now there is representation and still possibility of presentation/axioms. i may have got this wrong! see Badiou. hence the photos and the drawings together. the counting of the economy is set as natural. also god is set as natural, by axiomatic set theory. and the fulfilment of nature is madness. hence the need for rationality. i think it may be from lines and different measurements for each- ie all is subjective- Nietzsche....or niche.....whats the difference, add etzs.....
6.3.26 Freedom tree. we/ i make my own prisons.
working on 'hope tree' March. formal rules- some perceptions/mental perceptions are more intense, stronger. because they have a freeing quality. (compared to advertising, religion, media images). A freeing quality is a property of art. therefore these perceptions need to be exagerated as art, in art.
the frame is the rule for producing, within it, all its elements. maths, science, economics, biology etc is based on realism that axiomatic set theory on which it is based was discovered when actually it was created. same as god- actually the idea of god was created rather than discovered. the untruth of maths has led to capitalism and ill health and wars. set theory does not take into account infinity. there is no outside of correlationism, no thinking that can think thought..
25.2.26 the artworks make sense to me. Looking at my past, the future,- the interconnections- nothing can be said about cause and effect. It is, as Nietzsche said, all perspective.
11.2.26
THE BEAUTIFUL RATIONALE:-
Intense perceptions from outside and inside my mind-photos, drawings. Collected on a panel in random arrangement (no 'fruitive' arrangement- Bahgavad Gita). These perceptions are in the same register as intense half-remembered felt traumatic memories that lack reality and form. The panel of images (pathos formula- A.Warburg/G. Pollock) allow mytho-poetic connections. The individual images have infinite possibilities of symbolism. A matrixial connection (Ettinger) with the artwork allows it to work transformatively on the subjectivity of the viewer that in trauma had been destroyed, but now has infinite creativity.
also re. health:- a nice theory:- stick with the original phenomena. (Sloterdijk- 'if you have never thought grey', 2025)
3.2.26
‘give way tree’ This is about the power of the moon- its effect on fluids- the tides, women's blood, sap movement. It's called 'give way tree' because of the connections of everything- tree roots being infinitely micro. The power that men take I find boring, deathly and ugly in comparison. Not sure if they have begun trying to stop the moon’s power.
‘significance tree’ This is called 'significance tree' because of the connections of everything- tree roots being infinitely micro. It's about the equality of significant things and their interconnections- past, present and future. It's a product of subcultural meditation. The connections subtle, pretty, the narratives curly. Optimistic that small creative connections can devolve the current strong men hierarchy.
‘miraculous tree’ Called miraculous tree because of the connections of everything-tree roots being infinitely micro. Subculturally meditative. The intelligence of nature is involved. The narratives are curly, pretty, subtle and inspiring. The photos suggest ephemerality and open signification, the drawings suggest creativity.
30.1.26. if all the body cells are constantly renewed then also the mind that goes with it. so much for any grand ideas.
my january artwork is called:- 'Cousin Dave and all the evils of the world'. it is done and now i await getting it framed and photographed and on my website. i feel quite brave. i have written a lot but cant be bothered to type it all up. as i am 65 and staying healthy. excited about my new artwork. there are many items:- photos colours and drawings. connecting fact, history, creative ideas etc. no big ideas except life is what you make it....
13.1.26 art is urgently needed so people can see their souls
19.12.25 Correlationism:- Badiou (Being and Event) explains the junction of philosophy and politics:there is representation and presentation. Representation of what is sedimented presentation, and new presentations-these are illegal-against the state of law of repeated representations of historical presentations. Examples of illegal presentations include Heidegger’s neologisms and crossings out. It depends on how sedimented in space and time the representations are eg. ‘god’. To deconstruct the word g-od (od=one) and say a new word is very illegal. Also eg Mary Daly and Gyn-Ecology.
Slightly illegal is to refuse the current waves of vaccinations rolled out by the pharmaceutical industries. To pursue one’s own health via one’s own mind is very illegal. As famously described by Foucault the body is known from corpses. To know it personally and take measures to ensure healthy mind and body is illegal and correlationist.
Also from Badiou the understanding that ‘the one’ in theology has the same axiom as maths. This is also true for Islam/Arabic/language/religion/politics/state. Both languages correlate one/1 numerically with the one god/allah(the-singular).
But aside of this is the philosophical/logical possibility/axiom of complexity=infinity- outside the numerical system. The numerical system allows for measuring (Euclid’s geometrical drawings could have been seen otherwise)- for science, technology, economics. These numerical axioms supporting religion, science, and economics are ethically catastrophic it seems.
The ’grey’ (Sloterdijk 2025) the infinite complexity of possibilities is where mind body correlationism can happen. In ‘you must change your life’(2009) Sloterdijk reviews a history of mind-body practices that begin from individual correlationist practices but developed into rigid religious orders- including yoga, christian, ancient greek, athletic. (note 1) He spent some time connected to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Puna India, retreat centre. ‘In his search for the convincing he withdrew from the intellectual scene, and took guidance from the eastern world.’ ‘In meditation discovering that humans are not condemned to continuity.’ ‘From the spiritual exercises he developed his own world of thought beyond convention.’ (1978-80). Then returning to an academia influenced by the Frankfurt School. (This information is from his conversation with journalist Quentin Lafay ARTE 2025-a video).
At the close of ‘You must change your life’ he uses the idea of banality (Arendt’s famous prescription of the as yet worst humanitarian disaster, though arguably now being repeated by its victims). Outside of religious values, the unethical is banal. Correlationism is the opposite of banal, being infinitely complex.
‘House of Day House of Night’ the section ‘My Mansion’ is I think a description of correlationism, by Olga Tokarczuk.
Performatism, postpostmodern can be a correlationist practice, because unlike postmodernism it is authorial, personal and unlike modernism shown clearly to be such.
Note 1. Prasna Upanishad (translated Robert Ernest Hume):- ‘Meditating on ‘Om’…beholds the Person that dwells in the body and that is higher than the highest living complex.’
