#Abstraction

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, untitled,  1967

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society

"I mean I have heard from others stories of his arrogance or something but, to my experience, he was always very supportive and he was looking for intensity. Some kind of feeling basically." -Ernest Briggs on taking a class from Rothko in the 40s

[the-paradigm-web]

[peterdoroshenko]

[thenightgazers]

She's gone

[madaman0]

Even the rabbits start to get tired, they slow down, they g!ve up—

!!TH3Y ABSTR4KT¡.—

[jeremyszopinski]

Longfellow Sunset #6, Oil on board, 17" x 20" , 2024

[zal-cryptid]

Had a disturbing thought

[the-cricket-chirps]

Untitled (Green Paintings)

Cy Twombly

ca. 1986

[joyfulpeanutfest]

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1968,  100×72.7 cm

Yale University,  © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York, by SIAE 2016.

“People have asked me if I was involved with color. Yes, that’s all there is, but I am not against line. I don’t use it because it would detract from the clarity of have to say. When you have a new view of the world, you will have to find new ways to say it.”

[the-paradigm-web]

[lieutenant-fred]

"And it was dark, the darkness seemed to calm her down a bit"

[n3xus-apparatus]

Also I haven't seen anybody talk about this yet- but in the amazing digital circus (obvious spoilers ahead)

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In episode 3 it's revealed by kinger that darkness calmed down his abstracted wife, and in the pilot we saw canine put abstracted kaufmo into a pit with a whole crowd of other abstracted people, *a very obviously dark room with no visible light sources*

Just saying that seems, interesting, and implies caine somehow figured out darkness potentially calms them, maybe after the incident with his wife kinger told caine about it and he adjusted their holding area (idk what else to call it and j forgot if it has an official name?) but it's nice to see he's trying to be accommodating for them, plus it looks like there's water in there? Maybe water is also calming for abstracted individuals?

[keeweetrz]

gangle abstraction art bc i love gangle ^^

[roxistic]

The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 3 Analysis and Theory (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING!)

Am I the only one who felt like this line was a little out place in the context of what Kinger was saying before?

Until I realized something.

It implies something specific. And it's foreshadowing.

What it implies:

People abstract when they feel not wanted or not loved. Queenie didn't feel wanted or loved (we don't have enough information to know why).

Kaufmo didn't feel wanted or loved and we have enough information to give us an idea as to why (people stopped laughing at his jokes; he was convinced there was an exit and nobody supported him in this idea/gave up on him/couldn’t help him in his obsession).

We're given a red herring to divert our attention. Pomni thinks Ragatha is feeling unwanted, unloved, or unappreciated by her because Pomni has ignored or been cold to Ragatha’s efforts to support her. So she turns to Ragatha and thanks her. It is important, but it distracts from who this was really alluding to.

It's Jax.

Everytime somebody shows another person that they care, he looks upset.

When Pomni shows care for Gummigoo by trying to take her with him after his reality has been shattered.

When he asks Pomni how “being stuck with the nutcase (Kinger) was” and Pomni says it "wasn't that bad, actually."

And most infamously, the face he makes for a fraction of a second before Kaufmo’s funeral.

He knows nobody likes him. He knows he isn't wanted. Gooseworx herself said that nobody likes him (which you can find on her Tumblr blog as I have hit the image limit on this post.)

Even without that statement, it’s obvious in the show. And following the logic presented here, it’s likely he will be the one to abstract. If not fully abstract, then something drastic will happen with him and he might come dangerously close to it or he may partially abstract similarly to how Pomni did in her dream sequence at the beginning of episode 2.

It would be up to the others to catch him before it’s too late and talk him down from it… somehow. Despite everything he’s done. Despite being a jerk and a bully at every opportunity.

Gooseworx said it would be somebody we wouldn’t expect. Jax seems to be the only person consistently having fun on Caine’s adventures by trying to cause as much chaos as possible, so we wouldn’t have expected him to just give up. But because of what we’ve seen and Gooseworx herself saying nobody likes him, I’m betting on him being the most likely and vulnerable candidate for abstraction.

Unless this too is a red herring and Goose is playing 5D chess with us. But that’s just a theory.