the modern art market

With the launch of the artbeam website, preparation for the Armory Show in NY and a trip west with Max Dean I find myself recalling what brought me to this new crossing.

As a mid-westerner I grew up with tornadoes. I was both frightened and attracted by tornadoes. Yet as I got older the attraction grew stronger. I began to follow them…. world changing events, crises of humanity, revolutionary innovation, creative disturbances…

This passion to have my finger on the world’s pulse initially led me to trading. I wanted to know all that was happening in the world as soon as it happened. I wanted to understand the maelstrom, the ideas that gave rise to it and those that arose from the ashes- to contextualize them, to act on them.

I learned how to do that very well.

A realization that technology was unfolding as a primary catalytic force led me to San Francisco. I wanted to be there for the birthing process. To know it as it matured like a child, so I could create with it, so I could paint with it.

With the help of many friends I’ve learned how to do that very well too.

So now its time to paint with the world of ideas…to trade the “high-art” market.

I’ve had the best teachers in the world to prepare. I’ve had my feet in the water for some time now. If that were not enough I recognize a long wave forming from the tsunami of these last three or four years.

This is a “story” market led by insiders with deep pockets. I’ve traded these kinds of markets before. I’ve advised the best in the world at it and I’m ready to do it again.

Oaxaca has been like a nurturing friend these past two years. It provided me with another dimension of time. It cradled me in its ancient intelligence and it bathed me in light like no other. It challenged me. It tested me. It taunted me. It threatened me.

Yet through all of this something never died. Call it an unbending intent. It’s what’s left when everything else is washed away.

So here goes…

mark
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february 28, 2004