Austyn Taylor / Fine Art / Sculpture / Nietzche Horse

"Nietzsche. The hearts are literally carved out of the body~heartless! This idea that "life has meaning" and the Nietzsche line "We have killed God and will never be able to wash the blood away"(full passage below in Details) is something I spend a lot of time thinking about. I am building a (sorta joke/absurdist) belief system for Americans pieced together from the dead organizing Christian God Nietzsche credits with the creation of the "west" (Modernism vs. Meaning), American exceptionalism mythology (enlightenment thinking) and just plain old life as it passes in a boring way with ducks eating bread and the look of anthropomorphic "knowing" in nonhuman animal's eyes. I feel like a big certainty to count on is absurdity (Kierkegaard) and going further with the work, these are all icons and idles to a "2020 USA American good person" worldview."

Nietzsche

• Dimensions – 11"W x 16"H x 5"L
• Materials – Terracotta (red clay) and glaze

Passage Austyn refers to:

"Science (modernism) killed religion (purpose/meaning) now what!?🤷" Or as Nietzsche said->
 

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

 

((After much melodramatic writing the eventual answer is "the artists will figure it out"))

 

The phrase first appeared in Nietzsche's 1882 collection The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, also translated as "The Joyful Pursuit of Knowledge and Understanding"). However, it is most famously associated with Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), which is most responsible for making the phrase popular.

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Austyn Taylor's art practice is at it’s core a reaction to the deconstructed heaps of culture left by post modernism and a search for value and virtue. Her aim as an artist is to create works which circle around sacred values such as unconditional love, authenticity, imagination and human dignity. For 20 years her work has utilized figurative characters evolved from the closest thing to authentically sacred symbols from her culture – the graphic hand drawn aesthetics found in American animation. 

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