Welcome to Aesthetic Grounds

Surfing the web for five years as a public art consultant, I noticed that nothing exists that keeps interested parties informed on public art or public space that is not pure reporting or academic analysis. Where was the something in the middle - arts journal criticism? Something that focuses on the visual? Something that understands the silly institutional traps?

I live in Florida. The sun shines and the brain shrinks. We live with our bodies and our eyes. Warmth and color. We like the emerging event - the energy. Nothing dies in Florida. It is only sick and forgotten for a while until it reemerges.

We are the future of the planet with the vast majority of humans living in the tropics and subtropics. We don't need much clothing or much architecture. Life is easier and this is the future too.

We invent pleasure around every turn. The public spaces with its architecture, landscape, design and art must bring us more satisfaction. If we don't, people will move to some other place - within Florida. We compete - city against city, beach against beach, shopping against shopping. Cooperation is absurd. Who can make the best place? The best emerging event?

So Florida is the perfect base for a Blog on public space and public art. I can't escape into my thoughts because the world is too desirable. Justification without bodily experience is absurd. I am always asking - do I really want to go there?

Twice a week. By Monday morning and Friday morning, I will post some single idea and single project. Overtime, with the help of others, we can build a bank of images and ideas that help us enjoy the actual space that we literally build. Please email images and information.