http://www.philchanart.com/writing Writing by artist Phil Chan. Retired Professor of Art at Youngstown State University in Ohio, he was born in Canton, China, lived in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. in 1956. http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=12 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 14:04:00 It is the ultramateriality of body that first responds to the call of existence. Meaning, before the organization of the formal and geometrical, is present as the elemental. http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=11 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 14:03:00 Life’s vibrancy is not sucked away by the black hole of death, rather it is drained through the radiant white hole of intoxication. To live, life must shine. It is the shine of intoxication which prescribes life’s destiny, unfolding its possibilities http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=9 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 13:57:00 Because life is the surplus which overflows materiality, Ultramateriality must ground itself in the taste for Otherness if pleasures and pains are to condense themselves into the deeper joys and sorrows of existence. http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=8 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 13:55:00 For matter, existence is. But for living substance, mere existence is insufficient. Life must reach beyond, must compel itself to be. This is the condition of its being, for Life’s essence is constituted in the reach for possibilities. http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=7 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 13:50:00 Original sin, as portrayed in the Garden of Eden, is the deepest of myths. Its reach extends into the present, because its origin is not temporal. It is the trans-temporal presence which confirms our humanity, making possible civilization and decency http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=6 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 13:49:00 Matter’s tendency toward entropy must be disrupted if ultramateriality is to push itself into the world. Ultramateriality is the surplus over and above the material. This temporal surplus is always pulled from within by the ever present weight of mat http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=4 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 13:43:00 To breach the surfaces of existence, ultramateriality must ever equivocate between its physical and metaphysical dimensions of being. This equivocation exerts the psychic impetus necessary to rupture the superficies of temporality http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=2 Phil Fri, 31 May 2013 13:39:00 In a universe so vast where humanity is not even a speck on a speck, existence itself is an indelible reminder of our own insignificance. Adrift in its unfathomable infinitude, being dangles ever tenuously athread the abyss. http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=1 Phil Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:00:00 "Art and Ethics" is a complex topic. It can focus on the legalistic balance between the freedom of expression and ownership, and as society enters the information age, we must reestablish the fundamental balance between our commitment to democratic http://www.philchanart.com/?postid=23 Phil Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:08:00 While virtually all graphic design professionals and educators alike profess typography to be the backbone of a graphics education, no design program has integrated the training necessary for its students to appropriately match typefaces to the mood