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The horizon, the hills and valleys, the flow of water, the shape of rocks, plants and animals, and the human figure are composed of curves. Nature is curved with few exceptions. The straight lined, angular, man-made world sharply contrasts with the natural world.
Curvism seeks to move out of the square, rectangular, cubed world and into the sphere of the curved line, the circle and the ellipse.
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On Metamodernism and Curvism
Curvism is the word I have been using for over forty years to describe an art concept that takes us into a more hopeful future. Like metamodernism, Curvism is a reaction to both modernism and postmodernism. Curvism, however, goes further back to include an understanding of premodern times, not fully accounted for by metamodernism.
The New Green Homestead Program
The Earth needs healing from a history of human misuse, abuse, destruction, and greed. Humans need to quickly act together to stop global warming. I believe that a New Green Homestead Program can help begin a process of healing nature and the Earth. It can help achieve a better balance between nature and human culture.
On Civil Disobedience 2020
Each of us is capable of doing much much more to change the world for the better than just casting an occasional vote. Thoreau and Gandhi advocated and set examples for using our whole being for being the change we want to see happening in our world.
THE FILMMAKERS Movie Pitch
The clock is ticking. The Earth is about to erupt. Can two aliens inspire three reporters to motivate 7 1/2 billion people to save themselves from climate change? It’s the human race against the clock!
Sundance Snowman 2020
Firkins is an artist who works in “curvism,” a concept he created to celebrate the roundness and fluidity of nature. It led him to writing a movie script called “The Filmmakers.” The movie starts as science fiction then turns into a documentary about the consequences of climate change and possible solutions.
The Filmmakers Movie
Aliens contact reporters to film a news conference about the imminent threat of climate change and request the reporters make a documentary exploring the aliens’ solutions.
Total Eclipse
A shadow sweeps across the earth. There's a ring around the sun now. Totality! Beautiful, beautiful beautiful. Awesome! Stillness. Complete silence. I stand and stare into the black hole and ring of light.
Curvism: The Curved Worldview
The art and philosophy of Curvism creates a conceptual framework and model to identify and explain the problems of world history and what seems to be missing. Curvism points the direction for moving forward into a more hopeful future.
A Show of Art
I make art for the fun of it not for the funds from it. I make art to change my world. I’ve given up on the idea of making a living from my art. I still however hold on to the wish to change the world with my art.
Curvism: Beyond Postmodernism
Postmodernism killed and replaced Modernism in the mid-1960s. Postmodernism has been dying since the turn of the century. What comes next? What best describes the changes that are taking place in art and culture?
Revisions of Genesis
Revisions of Genesis contains seven variations of the original two creation stories found in the book of Genesis. Christians, Jews and Muslims all share the same creation story of God creating the world and the first humans Adam and Eve.