THIS IS TEXT BASED ART
Adam Daley Wilson
This piece contains cohesive texts in formal substantive and visual formations, including footnotes — referencing elements of my past writings in practicing law. When not in hypomanias, I think in the logical structures approximated here. Visually the piece references artists already listed above. Substantively, the work refers to two psychiatric conditions: If you have anosognosia (the focus of a 2018 piece), you are so sick that you do not realize you are sick. It’s not denial; it's an honest lack of insight. Related, anosodiaphoria means that even once you’re told you’re very sick, you don’t act, because you simply do not care. In the context of the individual, you don’t take your meds. In the context of our species, we know what we are doing—even though we know the consequences to ourselves, to others, to our children. Which raises culpability: Are we doing what we do because we do not see it? The evidence does not support that. So is it that we just don’t care — anosodiaphoria — or have we formed intent, even if inferred — have we decided there will be no changes in our systems, not of relations, or economies, or beliefs, or their predicate thought systems themselves?
Species Anosodiaphoria, 2023
oil on canvas with ink text layers
55 x 41 in 139.7 x 104.1 cm
oil on canvas with ink text layers
55 x 41 in 139.7 x 104.1 cm
