Friday, September 12, 2025

Shaun Motsi at KIN

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Chocolate was what the artworld wanted then. Color on your walls. "Chocolate bars" rife for inference, wordplay, poetical inkblots for the viewer to see what they wanted. Suggestive and blank. A Rorschach lure, and trap. Now here they becomes a silver mirror. Now here we've got holes cut out for white "spectacles," peeping for a history of scientific racism, for our gawking and calling it erudition. Which is another apt metaphor for recent turns in art. Never seeing the white for the walls. Turn around, look inward, calls coming from inside the house, etc.


See too: "The Rorschach inkblot is the ultimate symbol of art."

"In gaming, "the meta" is the strategy created by players using knowledge of the inner workings of the game mechanics."

"in the style of ancient plated mirrors, an object of vanity for the rich, giving them back exactly what was loved most, their surroundings, their homes, their empire and visage. To prove the point the more well silvered even reached higher prices."