Painting and writing.

While painting these last days, I was thinking about reworking and ordering my writings. Painting has always been a kind of free thinking refuge for me. Busy with the colors, my spirit is kind of set free to surf over an ocean of ideas, impressions and feelings and inexplicably, a selection of ideas establishes itself that answers my concerns of the moment.
I was feeling unsatisfied with the absence of a clear thread through the texts. Here under is the result of my last days of free thinking in the form of a table of content.

I terminated 24 of my ARTSENSE serie of 31 acrylics and the last 7 are already in an advanced stage. My plan is to terminate the acrylics and the book by year's end....



Table of Contents

Introduction.
By way of setting the general content of our inquiry.

PART 1: IMPOSED ROADS ON CREATIVITY
1.1. Until recently art production was commissionned.
1.2. From the roads of the gods to the roads of capital.
1.3. Atomization and the role of the artist.
1.4. The roads of capital leading to the jungle.
1.5. Form and content: the social dream that suggest mimicry.

PART 2: INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE WITHOUT FREE WILL
2.1. Perception of reality is reality.
2.2. Civilizational foundations.
2.2. The opening of the gates.
2.4. On post-modernism.
2.5. Form and Content.
2.6. Content of art works in the 21^st century.


PART 3: THE JUNGLE
3.1. Coming from the roads of no free will.
3.1.1. Animism.
3.1.2. The gods.
3.1.3. Capital and the early modern age.
3.2. Entering the jungle of total freedom.
3.2.1. Economic and technological changes.
3.2.2. Memories of the past.
3.2.3. Abandonning the past.
3.2.4. Great confusion.
3.2.5. The awakening
3.2.6. Europe versus the US.
3.3. The great atomization.
3.4. Post-modernism.
3.5. Art sense.

PART 4: FOURTY WORKS BY LAODAN.
4.1. Three oils of 1979/1980
4.2. Four gouaches of 2001
4.3. Three tapestries of 2002.
4.4. Thirty acrylics of 2004: the artsense collection.