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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.
Paintings 2020
Curvism Creatures
Cubism to Curvism
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.
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.
Alaska Drawings 2016
Selfies Hand, Foot
Shadow Selfies 2005-2015
