Welcome to Jeff Einstein Fine Art Photography: the art of little things.
Relax, you’re not crazy. What is now Jeff Einstein Fine Art Photography was formerly the Quality of Life Resistance Movement. But I realized some months ago — after several years of exhaustive health challenges in my immediate family — that sociopolitical commentary was simply too temporal to hold my interest any longer, and I yearned for more of the sacred and eternal in my life. So, well into my eighth decade, I determined to focus on my art instead — a long-forsaken passion just now re-emerging in my life with a welcome roar.
This Substack blog will become the newsletter extension of my online gallery at JeffEinsteinArt.com, where you’ll always find the most current collections of my limited edition artworks, including many of the ones you’ll see here. Please contact me directly with any thoughts — good or bad — about my work (I call it the art of little things), and feel free to comment on my posts right here on Substack. I’d love to hear from you — however and wherever serendipity permits. Finally, please tell your family, friends, and colleagues about this newsletter and JeffEinsteinArt.com. Tell them about the art of little things.
FYI, all of my former sociopolitical essays and videos are still here, just buried a little deeper in the past. If you are a subscriber to the Quality of Life Resistance Movement and don’t wish to continue as a subscriber to Jeff Einstein Fine Art Photography, please feel free to unsubscribe. I won’t take it personally (I think). But I might suggest that you give the new me a chance. You’ll likely see some seriously good fine art photographs, and (as always) read some seriously good writing should you decide to stay. I hope you do. Your eyes are why I’m here. Good to see you again!
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: “Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”
“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The ultimate evil is that Time is perpetual perishing, and being actual involves elimination. The nature of evil may be epitomized, therefore, in two simple but horrible and holy propositions: 'Things fade' and 'Alternatives exclude.' Such is His mystery: that beauty requires contrast, and that discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling. Ultimate wisdom, I have come to perceive, lies in the perception that the solemnity and grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, 'nothing' is lost.”
― John Gardner, Grendel
Open mind’s purpose is to process the eliminations.
Grendel’s open mind may have ouroboros’d all the way back round to eliminate itself.
An early, untrumpeted of course, use of openAI, perhaps.
Or maybe Beowulf & the boys sorts just drove him over the edge.