Contemplations — 3 Min Read
A Note From Becoming Obsolete
By Daeu Angert
Contemplations — 3 Min Read
A Note From Becoming Obsolete
By Daeu Angert
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
architect, inventor, futurist
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
architect, inventor, futurist
Becoming Obsolete, 2021. Daeu Angert. Oil on canvas. 48″ x 30″ (121.92cm x 76.2cm). Part of a private collection.
was once useful
and potentially in demand.
Lively.
Perhaps revered.
the one who invented it.
Definitely recommended.
Everything that ever became obsolete
was stubborn,
rigid,
and careless with its future.
insisted on maintaining the status quo,
even when it was easier to adapt,
ignoring the obvious signs
that its world was changing
into seafoam green.
doubled down on its ignorance,
to reestablish itself
into the darkness.
Notes from the Atelier while making Becoming Obsolete.
Daeu Angert is a Serbian-American artist known for Chromatic Tracing — a technique of direct, intuitive contact with the surface. Founder of daeuArt Gallery and host of the I Paint Ideas podcast.
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