Sublime

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing. 

Sublime is to transcend the postmodern matrix system humanity now faces.  Our human condition is being systematically diminished into barcodes.  “Progress” has broken down our humanity and become our identity. The Sublime series is my own battle to transcend this matrix system we are faced with. 

A systematic code was created by the Nazis to identify the Jewish people in concentration camps, and placed on their forearms.  This organization made it easy and efficient for Germans to systematically exterminate the Jewish race. 

At the outset, the first groups to be exterminated were artists and poets.  They were not only useful for the purpose of labor, but they were also a threat to the Nazi ideology.  Not only Jews were a threat, other artists who did not follow Hitler’s First Reich ideal by creating propaganda art were designated “degenerate artists.”  Propaganda artists who followed alone, painted modern art that posed a great threat to freedom of thought. 

Abstraction, Fauvism, Dada and all other modern art forms were prohibited by the Nazis and the Communists. The extermination of these artists began in urban districts. 

I, Yong Jo Ji, have been for 10 years a resident of Sag Harbor, Hampton NY. Hampton, among displaced Afro-Americans in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, was a place where artists like Jackson Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Kline and other great abstract painters migrated to live, and create a most important art. So this corner of America was recognized for its abstract expressionism. 

Hampton as of now has become a symbol of the rich and elitist America, no longer a place of artists without recognition, a place where humble creators can afford to live, to be inspired in the very place where great artists of the past once retreated. This same trend is also happening in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Chinatown, The East Village, and SoHo Manhattan. 

This gentrification also affects the very same place established artists live and work. This systematic displacement of the artist has become a crisis, as critical as the gentrification of NYC and Eastern Long Island. In the great years of the industrial revolution within the United States of America, President Eisenhower held artists, poets, and musicians to be just as important as the work force of America. 

But art has now become entertainment and commercial property for the elites.

This Barcode system has not helped our humanity to progress, it has reduced our identity to a series of Barcodes. Dehumanizing. Systematically organizing our lives into barcodes.

My duty as artist is to bring awareness to our human condition, and to transcend this condition we are facing.