Thursday Edition: Hollis Brown Thornton
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Happy Thursday dear collectors! It's Sara with my last dispatch for you this week. Jen will be gracing your inboxes tomorrow, early-ish, at 11:00 a.m. *sharp*, with new prints from a pair of your favorite artists: Mike + Doug Starn. They'll make the top of wish lists for certain, but made of the softly-falling stuff, their availability will be brief and fleeting. To get your hands on these lovely, lasting additions to any art collection (yours or your nearest and dearest's), make sure you're on the ready.
Today's new print from Hollis Brown Thornton likewise makes permanent the passing. Brown's collected and compiled dozens of cartridges to compose Atari. His marker-mellowed rendering of the the games that defined our not-too-distant past documents ever-changing technology and culture, nourishing our collective nostalgia for simpler times. In the details they reveal their past lives and loves--once owned by Tom Regan, affectionately worn at the edges--evidence of good use. Like the tapes in Brown's VHS and the space invaders in Closing Credits at the End of the Movie, the cartridges in Atari are seemingly stacked against technological singularity.
The colorful facades are a comfort to last night's (totally random, unassociated with today's edition) conversation that strayed from small farming practices to super-intelligence and that kept me tossing and turning, fretting about the fast-approaching future. There's no sense in losing sleep over it, our increasing inability to know what's next is the nature of this life we're living. Atari serves as a humble, 2-D reminder that there's no reason to lug around 3-D baggage as we hurtle through time and space. Left in Brown's hands, the games are reconciled as a portable part of our modern myths. While in the near-term, and in the far, there's really no telling what's around the corner, in the meantime, it's easy to get lost in smaller details, like just what to gift the guys, geeks and children of the 80s in your life. Perhaps that's one more stress Atari can address?
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