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{FOUNDING} MOTHER OF OBSOLETISM

Artist Manifesto

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The artists Obsoletism Movement explores the intersection of human existence, societal structures, and technological advancement. It does not seek resolution. It observes and expresses what occurs when meaning and purpose become unstable.

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As systems accelerate, humans are asked to optimize, perform, and justify their presence and value. Creation becomes measured by output. Purpose becomes commodified. Expression is increasingly undervalued, dismissed as non-quantifiable.

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Feelings and emotions are replaced by data points, metrics, and algorithms. Her Obsoletism Movement is born now, not as a reaction, but as recognition that human existence, meaning, purpose, and creation are being renegotiated in real time.

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The artist owes creation first to themselves, before audiences, before critics, before systems of validation that arrive only after the moment has already passed.

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Art here is both expression and existence, a pursuit of existential questions that have haunted humanity and philosophers for all eternity, now unfolding with new layers of complexity.

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What remains of human purpose and societal place when machines perform better, faster, and without fatigue? What does creation mean when efficiency replaces presence? What is expression when usefulness is no longer guaranteed?

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The work exists in moments, between human and medium, between intention and accident, between control and surrender.

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Even identical forms are never identical in origin. Each is bound to a singular convergence of time, space, process, and presence. It was not your hand. It was not your moment.

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Art is metaphysical before it is visual.

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All human experience begins as experiment before it becomes norm, system, or form. Food was once gathered, then grown. Shelter was once improvised, then became architecture. Meaning itself emerged through trial, error, and repetition.

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The artist lives in that experimental state, before stabilization, before consensus, before utility.

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The artist is both witness and architect of navigating chaos, observing the unpredictable currents of existence while shaping meaning and form from them.

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No medium is privileged or favored over another. Intentionality and its absence, in both process and outcome, are equally valid. A work may be deliberate, or it may be the residue of movement, energy, presence.

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Authorship matters only as the meaning the creator invests in their work. Whether a piece is signed, anonymous, altered, erased, or destroyed, its significance comes from the artist’s connection to it, not from external validation or permanence.

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As part of the modern creative process, technology is always present in some form. It is an unavoidable aspect of human existence, encountered through communication, distribution, and organization, even when it remains absent from the artist’s direct collaboration with their work.

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Technology is not positioned as an enemy or something to fear. It acts as a mirror, reflecting human intentions and limitations. It expands our capacity while also raising questions and doubts about creativity, authorship, and meaning.

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Technology can never replace the experiential process of creation as lived by the artist. It does not intentionally challenge human creativity or output, but it prompts us to evaluate art through metaphysical frameworks, beyond mere material or measurable criteria.

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The body remains central, even when the work is digital, even when the process is automated, even when the artist feels unnecessary.

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Art may respond with energy, resistance, or chaos, or with slowness, minimalism, hesitation, even apparent surrender.

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Questioning what’s the point? is not absence. It is existential honesty. It creates space for meaning to appear, or not.

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The work does not need to last. It does not need to be remembered.

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What matters is that a moment occurred between a human and a medium.

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To witness that moment, in real time or in residue, is a gift.

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When systems accelerate beyond meaning and external demands fade, when everything that can be created has been created and optimization peaks, the need to create for utility or perceived value loses its edge.

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Even after peak optimization ends, as long as humans exist, the desire to find meaning and value in experience persists, anchored deeply in how a moment makes them feel.

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Creation endures as fulfillment, bringing joy, process, and presence. Ironically, and with a touch of absurdity, it leaves humans grounded in meaning rooted in what systems overlook: the unquantifiable and the unprofitable.

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Each act of creation is a marker, not of importance, or significance, but of existence and the value of experience.

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To create is to say: I am here. For now.