Exploring the Art work of Randy Titus and his 2005 Abstract series, discovered in a dumpster. According to legend, the great abstract artist Kazimir Malevich experienced a spiritual vision in 1913, when he painted a black square on a white field, demonstrating that a painting could exist completely free of any reflection, or imitation of …
“I introduce my ideas by saying that as a teacher I use abstract thoughts concretely in a real society with actual souls; to influence is the best expression possible of one’s philosophy.” Randy Titus In a dumpster across from Carpenter Branch Library on South Grand, I found the life of Randy Titus….or at least…I …
DreamManager is a Meta-story-telling experience told through objects and archetypal images layered onto a virtual and physical Art Installation during PRIME’s 24 hour play event.. “Reverie”. Like a dream it will disappear soon. We begin with a quote from “Breakthrough” a short story by Mister Titus “I am your narrator, your guardian. I am …
We begin at the St Louis World’s Fare. Not the epic one from 1904, that remains a crowning jewel of the city, in a physical sense with the remnant architectural structures that grace Forest park and in a metaphorical sense of our civil pride. This particular World’s Fare is in honor of the old one, …
… or how I discovered Randy Titus — (blog written in 2017) Thunderstorms were coming in over South city and I was in the open fields of Tower Grove Park. The annual St Louis Pagan picnic was slowly being muffled in the rising humidity and it was time to take a break. I rolled down Shenandoah …
Death is hardly the end of the story for an Artist. A new paragraph is continually being written as long as their essence lives in the work they leave behind. One however could say metaphorically, the period at the end of the “life” of an artist ….. is the day they can no longer create …