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Friends,
After nearly four years, over 2750 distinct posts filled with links, MP3s, films, video installations, poems, essays, flash animations, and commentary galore, not to mention far too much time, effort, and love to in any way quantify, I have decided to move my blog home from its original location (my personal website) to its new home, right here at POLYSEMY Online.
If you are relatively new to my work, I say, "welcome!" If you are a longtime reader, I say, "You probably could tell it was time for a change, eh?" With everyone in my heart, I pray, "May the Muses direct me to entertain, educate, and enlighten all souls to whom my work is meaningful."
Though it is a change I mulled for many months, and hesitated making for at least as long, the question had actually became quite clear: why double my efforts when I could make them one? Since founding POLYSEMY over a year ago (and going online a couple months later) my online efforts have largely been directed towards growing the magazine. It has been the place where the bulk of my online heart beats, and where most of my online dreams have reached manifestation. So, it just makes sense to move my blog here, so that my online efforts are directly focused towards growing POLYSEMY, as a place for entertainment, education, and enlightenment for those working artists interested in depth.
Furthermore, this change allows my personal website (matthewdallman.com) to shift gears towards a more static site that promotes my wares as a musician, and specifically, as a film composer.
Perhaps most of all, I've come to prefer my own online identity be one that is part of the community that is the POLYSEMY staff and readership. Thus, my individual identity as an independent blogger matters to me less than it ever did. I'd rather fashion my online emanations from within POLYSEMY, rather than in parallel to it. And have it so that these emanations are in partnership with the work of POLYSEMY's fantastic staff, and our fantastic readers, and the energy we collectively stir.
Will The Daily Goose change? Well, in some sense, it has never not been changing. It is a reflection of my imagination, my awareness, my life's experiences, my inquiries into the nature of things. I've never had a plan for what I blog. It has always been a kind of let-'er-rip, intuitive, art project. That won't change, because I know of no other way to blog than to just be myself.
But I do know one thing: since for me, art is the result of the intersection of family, religion, intuition, the cultural weather (past and present), and the social sphere of life, I can't honestly do an art blog without involving those concerns.
Yet, in a certain sense, the new edition of this blog will be more focused. The main touchstone will be art, with my writings even more aimed to an audience of working artists (and those sympathetic) than ever before. So, for example, there won't be as much of the thinking-out-loud I've done for several years about politics, since, through that soundboarding, I've essentially found my political philosophy (that of classical liberal thought).
No, while the maverick streak I've always valued won't be lost, it is right for me to adapt my blogging to the concerns of this art magazine. So I'll do exactly that. I'll leave the particulars of what the areas of focus of this blog will be for future posts.
For now, thanks for coming along with me to my new blog home. The RSS and ATOM feeds are the same as each were previously. So no need to update them.
I should add this — the goal of this blog is clear: to contribute to the overall impulse of POLYSEMY, which is to actively midwife a worldwide movement of art that explodes the lie of "postmodernism" through an artistry in deep sympathy with the living tradition of fullness through the ages that is integral, that fosters the making of artwork that ignites the soul, reminds us that we are alive, and is an authentic expression not of cheap, superficial rhetoric, but rather of the timeless concerns of the human condition.
What is art? ... and its related inquiries: What is beauty? What is life and death? What is love? What is education? What is god? What is eternity? What is liberty? What is poetry? What is sign and symbol?
Join me in the exploration of the nature of these ideas, as well as what it means to attempt to engage each in conversation, as an artist. The Daily Goose — a transdisciplinary blog of the kosmos electric.
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