Future Primitif Visual Art

"Armed" Sustah-Girl copyright Turtel Onli 2005

Did you ever think about the role of art in our universe? How it expands across time and shows up everywhere. How it speaks to us through our collective genetic memories in the forms of fashion, paintings, illustrations, cartoons, logos, photographs, digital images, and words. How it binds us to our roots. Our shared roots. Our common roots. Did you ever think about the fact that it is all proof that we have so much in common. This includes art for commerce, history, appreciation, healing, education, and expression. We are all so powerfully similar at our root.

I am looking for those reflections. Sharing those thoughts. And posting images that I call Rhythmistic Art. This is about fine or applied visual art that is rooted in a future-primitif context, full of technique, energy, and ideas. Not to mention varied levels of patterns, symbols, icons, and concepts. Visit the Rhythmistic Museum via the link below. It is a work in progress supported by the Web Institute for Teachers of the University of Chicago. This curriculum web is a teaching learning tool for the visual arts.

http://cuip.net/~tonli/wit2002/Hopepage%20for%20the%20Rhythmistic%20Museum.htm
The following link is to the site of a Rhythmistic practitioner who specializes in elegant knitwear and wearable art. Her name is Rebekah Younger. http://www.youngerknits.com/

I thought you might want to know about a prolific Rhyhtmistic writer who recently set up a site so that sustahs of the world could commune and share information. Her name is Cassandra Washington. By day she is an assistant principal at a very productive elementary school in Chicago. By gift she is taking screen writing classes. She is the creator-publisher of the "Grammar Patrol" educational comic book and co-created with me the graphic novel, Sustah-Girl, Queen of the Black Age. We often talk about producing more books such as "Knowso and the Alphabet Forest" and a updating of Sustah-Girl. We exchange ideas about public school education too since I am a high school art teacher in Chicago. We like to say, "we have done, therefore we can teach". You might dig dropping in on her at http://sustah-girl.com.

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