Can a website be art? I have no idea, but RealStill is free, including ad-free, with out commerce. It’s meant to house an archive or last will and testament. It’s drawn from at least one thing that’s better than art. Life, and the world of things and folks. If art, it’s the art of experience, even truth, that, at a minimum, captures the physical presence of things and people and proceeds from there.
Veracious culture stems from genuine things and people. It has something at stake, and is unconcerned by the nature of representation, or, someone’s relation to this thing or that. A source artist is outside of IP, PC or appropriation schemes. The source is novel reality, not unique selfhood.
Too documentary for art, too art for documentary, should be the sweet spot, not a sour one.
Who goes to the source, embeds fully, lives, and works there, and lets it end there?
That’s rare. Supposedly that’s added value for the site. Not in these times.
All the work is paid for by my own labor, and, like MaMa Lily says, selfless and thankless. It’s the nature of these sort of endeavors.
“Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth to light and false the truth.” That’s also RealStill, and, so is, “Do unto others… it’s that simple.
No living creature has ever had a choice in their birth, name, identity, nationality, etc., but, i lucked out with a mix from ancestry, that being toughness and empathy.
It’s really that simple, to do unto others… It’s simple enough that you can live it fully.
Obviously, the world is loaded with other options. Just saying, while proving, that it’s possible to live, really, outside of screens, enjoying the positive and the negatives of that – soul, struggle, meaning, connection, purpose and discomfort.
Johnny Kilbane