How vindicating to have known it was coming all along but still discovering glee at being there to herald its arrival. (Subject) has revived (concept) insomuch as it de-vived it, providing a sort of negative charge to the things we so love about things being brought back, but doing it in a way that is melancholy and joyfully present.
Put simply: Erduztz Merklatrogunkio’s critical look at this artful (thing) is the most uneducated and boorish appraisal I’ve ever seen the likes of and am ever likely to see in my natural or synthetic lifetime.
Performance / creator’s competence / function
It is so smooth, but not so smooth as to belie its ragged edges, those things through which the color, light, sound, smell, and taste channel into the user / viewer / listener with ferocious honesty. It is appalling and beautiful how wickedly saccharine it is in its approach to (the medium), and I will likely be subjugating myself to being happy and sad with it because of its excellent qualities and middling qualities and disappointing nature at the end and beginning of it.
I was at first beguiled by its simplicity — the thing itself is no spring chicken in the way of how it operates / looks / sounds in this age of accelerationism, but it’s in that ancient-ness that we find a sort of peculiar beauty — one that we can see more of when we are willing to explore it — a beauty that shows the ugliness of it with aplomb and dignified vulgarity.
Value:
Obviously without value, this work / object is a scathing criticism of modernity all the while lauding modernity to the highest degree, where we might find that it is the best and worst thing we’ve seen, just as its creator has so lovingly made this object / work do in the way it is (performing its function).
But that is where the trumpeting ends over its value, as I find it to be difficult to say whether the thing is without value because it is bereft of it or without value because there is no price that can be put on it. It is equal in both lots, I believe, and you may find that many critics in the near present and the far future will agree with what I’ve said.
Conclusion:
It’s hard to know where it will be years from now. I predict a great renaissance for things like (Subject), where many will try to emulate it, and the other half of people will turn away from it and deny it. I also predict that it will fall to the wayside while its undergoing its rennaisance, only to have some kind of other conclusion drawn from it at some unknown time. At the end of the long, exhausting, yet fulfilling and energizing day, it’s no wonder that (Subject) has come about and will be there until it’s not.