This essay reads Julia de Ruiter’s practice as a form of vernacular archive, situating her work within Digimodernism and contemporary post-internet visual culture. Through analysis of memes, viral imagery, digital folklore, and algorithmic spectatorship, it examines how internet ephemera operates as cultural memory rather than disposable content.

This text examines art practice as a process of self-transformation through the project Self in Flux. Drawing on Jungian psychology, alchemy, and philosophical inquiry, it proposes the “axis” as a dynamic field where tensions between opposites are held and transformed. Through material experimentation and curatorial staging, the work positions Mercurius as an operative principle, mediating between inner psychic processes and external artistic form.

Fish slapping, as act, has captured the public imagination to the point that you can view online Redditt discussions as to which is the appropriate fish to use. The delight I find from this skit comes from viewing the juxtaposition of nice and nasty in what appears to be an absurd and pointless performance.

This essay argues that “legibility” is not an on–off switch for expression, but a visibility regime jointly produced by categorization, risk assessment, and media and institutional infrastructures.

Breaking Through in Two Directions: Body and Consciousness Co-building a Civilizational Tree, Spiritual Lighthouse, and Cultural Map through the Lens of New-type Cultural Productive Forces

Premature Death of the “Post-Work Era” Three Predicaments under Knowledge Centralization: Aesthetic Bullying, Collapse of Credibility, and Value Vacuum

Making Sense on Our Own Terms - Deconstructing Creative Homogenization: How Cultural Colonialism Seeps into the Collective Unconscious