UA.com is something like an exploration - not an end point, not an end in itself - but a place to begin. I've put together a small collection of some of my writing and music to try and work on an idea. I'm not even sure what that idea is yet, but I do know that I have started it.

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everything can be reduced to nothing, but zero is a beautiful beginning

call it post-nihilism - the numbers factor out; everything returns

and yet, our experience has value - my experience has value

I will continue from this point forward. To what end? Does it matter?

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Everyone is (potentially) some kind of artist. But art as mere object fails to unify the artist and audience. I seek instead a process by which sense and presence is involved in the creative process. Hakim Bey called it Immediatism. I call it living art.

This website is not a substitute for experience. It stands as a medium for communicating my ideas. At this point, I am less concerned with the finished object and more with the unification of art and life and finding people who share this notion. Art may be dead, but we are still very much alive.

A unified aesthetic eliminates the passive consumption of art by augmenting its production with an unfinished, subjective openness. It creates a living work of art that grows and changes with the artist and audience; it advocates an immediate presence and timeless absence, new levels of mindful incoherence, and the mingling of higher and lower selves.

It seeks, in effect, the dissolution of division between ego and environment and a love that engenders beyond the confines of tradition or expectation.

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"The difference between a 19th century quilting bee, for example, & an Immediatist quilting bee would lie in our awareness of the practice of Immediatism as a response to the sorrows of alienation & the 'death of art.'"