Ransen's Blog

Here's the why , and here is the what: The War On Cliche - 2019 The War On Cliche - 2019, detail 'M' - 2019 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies - 2019 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies - 2019, detail LH, Bedfordshire, 1979 - 2019 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies - 2019 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies - 2019, detail The Sleeper -2019 Untitled - 2019 Untitled - 2019 Untitled - 2019, detail Earlier drawings and later drawings

I had an exhibition in 2019 because in 2016 I heard that a co-worker had died. He was thin, healthy, active, intelligent, and cancer got him at 70. That gave me a kick up the bum. I thought: "Should I really waste my time on the sofa watching TV/Netflix stuff I'm not really interested in? If --- died at 70, so could I. Stop wasting time." So over three years I produced these drawings from 2017 to 2018 , and these from 2019 to 2020 . And in 2020, with coronavirus attacking (above all) the aged, I've started on a new project which will again take me three years... Part of the new art project involves neural networks, so I created an Arduino version of the standard back propagation neural network, posted here if you want to try it yourself ...

The why is explained in this link . The what is here: Untitled, 2017 Camilla, 2017 Crawford, 2017 Yokohama, 2017 Woman Looking Left, 2018 Goddess Looking Left, 2018 Goddess Looking Left, 2018, detail Sonya Looking Left, 2018 Come With Me - Learn The Truth, 2018 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies, 2018  Girl Considering The Horizon, 2018 Girl Silencing Triangles, 2018 Ivan Considering The Horizon, 2018 White Pnx, 2018 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies, 2018 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies, 2018 The Witch Of Barcelona, 2018 The Witch Of Barcelona - 2019, detail The Witch Of Barcelona, 2018 Fratelli Longo, 2018 Horizon - Then They Were Gone, 2018 Lucy And A Flat Sea, 2018 Ask No Questions Hear No Lies, 2018 The Wife Of Nostradamus, 2018 The Wife Of Nostradamus, 2018 (detail) Peppe In The Wild West, 2018 The

As the hoards of therapists decend on the latest disaster, insisting on "helping" the traumatized, maybe they should forget their Freudian "the mind is a pressure cooker" model of that amazing organ and note that only about 10% of the traumatized need therapy. 90% prefer friends and/or forgetting as a way of coping. And for some of those 90% therapy will actually hurt them. I got those figures from studies quoted in "A Guide to the Good Life" by William Irvine: It linked up to another book I read last year about that tight-fisted liar, fraud and cult leader Freud, "Freud" by Frederick Crews : The problem for some therapists really is that they do not understand science, and so psychoanalysis (which was never ever a science) is ideal for them, just learn the buzzwords, memorize the books and you're done! The mind is a pressure cooker, what goes in must come out! Else it will hurt you! That is the law as laid down by our god, Fr