Secret Section OF cool Art that inspires me
(THIS IS A TERRIBLY NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST)
((IN INCREASING LEVELS OF ESOTERIC VIBES))
Olafur Eliason
A Remarkably deverse artist, I adore his fusion of science and art as well as how unified his aethetic is. No matter how many mediums he works in, I find him always reconizable. Feels a bit like if you took a science textbook to the Gugenheim and read it while on acid.
I can’t overstate how deeply I respect this philosopher and his legacy. Ghosts of My Life is a formative book to me. In Ghosts Fisher explores the idea of Hauntology, that is that the ideas of the past (specifically under a capitalist system) have consumed the future. An example of this is what does the Music of the future sound liek to you? You are probably hearign soemthign synth heavy and deeply electronic an idea of the future defined in the 1960’s. We don’t have our own future anymore. Culture, Fisher Argues, is dead. It is a ghost.
IDue to Fisher’s influence, am in an ongoing battle to be a less retro-referncing designer. Trying to allow myself to think of new worlds and ideas.
RIP Mark. The world is lesser for your absence.
MarK Fisher
Be Still my maximalist heart. A photographer who started by haning her work in her buidlings Laundry room. Her work is whimisical and cenematic. She deeply influenced by hollywood where she lives.
Alex Prager
Dave Malloy
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John Waters
The Father of Filth. King of the Nasty B Movie. A LEGEND of off beat comedy and fearlessly queer offence, John Waters partnership with Divine (Rest in Peace to Mother) reverberates throug hthe queer community still. I saw him perform stnadup in 2025 and it was a highlight of my life.
We also share a deep love for Pier Pallo Passolini (See below)
I can’t overstate how much Malloy’s work has influinced me. It was a chance encoutner with the cast Album of Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 when i was 17 that made me interested in theatre at all. I collect his scores. And my pursuit of a human feeling websight is inspired by his exceptionally quirky one.
There is possibly no artist who has managed to create a work of art that has outraged as many conservatives over time as Marcel. The Fountain (shown left) has a singular ability to piss off fascists and will probably until the end of time. I don’t even know if I love Duchamp’s work. But his legacy of offending conservatives does inspire me.
That might just be the punk in me.
etienne louis boullee
A archetect of hypothetical superstructures Boulee for me evokes the legendary essay Visit to a Small Planet by Elenor Fuchs (every theatre design student has read this). Boulee’s archetecture asks us to imagine building eternal mega-strucutres echoing the period for figures and need of the modern era. Imaging a world where such extavigant gestures could happen.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
A filmamker for the armchair symbologist.
I Love him.
LEe Alexander Mcqueen
A true Icon in fashion history I find his unflinching willingness to push acceptable topics for fashion to be really facinating. This edgyness made deeply flawed artist but his failures are facinating and his succses are some of the most thought provoking moments in fashion history.
K-Punk is his Legendary Blog (Which I Shamefully need to read more of.)
Lindsey Ellis
The Mother of video essays as aformat she was probably the first person to codify the style and format on Youtube and before that Blip. Her work fell into my lap in 2016 and opened the world of artistic criticism and close reading to me. So much of my love of analysis and reserch comes from being a student of her channel.
She has also been unwavering in her solidarity with the Palestinian people.