FIGURE 1: EROTICA AMERICANA
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FIGURE 2: ALPHASEER SUMMER HILLS SERIES X
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FIGURE 3: ALPHASEER SUMMER HILLS SERIES XX
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FIGURE 4: ALPHASEER SUMMER HILLS SERIES XXX
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complete or incomplete?
About 10 years ago the Alphaseer created the awesome alpha seer linocut 9, otherwise also known as Erotica Americana, (Figure 1) That was a new burst of energy as the style points to a direction that I have not traversed before. Without a doubt, the metaphors are awesome. However, it was just an image sitting on an incomplete composition. In other words, something is missing. Perfection has not been achieved yet, even though the metaphors are gorgeous. Composition is everything in true art!
The Alphaseer lets it lay idle, as there are only 2 persons in the world who can tell what he is doing, the great master Knox Martin (of course) and my wife Kate(one of the smartest persons I know). So it does not matter whether the piece is perfect or not until now. If one eyeballs the two in a rapid-fire manner, it is possible to tell the difference. Again, the Qi of the second piece, ALPHASEER SUMMER HILLS SERIES X, has been strongly enhanced by removing the unnecessary from linocut 9 and installing the essential in Summer Hills.
After careful scrutiny, one should be able to tell a million dollars job apart from a essentially incomplete piece. Therein lies the ultimate authority of true art.
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WHAT IS QI ?
Now even the Alphaseer himself must look and look and look, . . . . Â at his own work, before he can finally and safely say it is a complete work!
In Figure 2 and 3,
X is the “before,” and XX is the “after.”
Qi has been greatly enhanced in the “after” version, i.e. the XX
What is Qi?
Qi is the life of a composition.
In Chinese, it means air, but  of course there is a much more profound meaning associated with that word.
The Hindu sages think life is only possible with Qi.
Are the ancients smart? Yes, they are very, very, smart!
See it for yourself, folks! Eyeball the two diagrams, Figure 2 and Figure 3.
Seeing is believing!
Is my painting finally complete now?
I can only tell you later, as I must go on looking, and looking, and looking, ……
In other words, it must be more than a million dollar job,– it must go beyond even that, since great art is divine!
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BAD NEWS FOR THE ACADEMICS,–(WHO CHAMPION ACADEMIC ART AND MEDIOCRITY BECAUSE OF ARTISTIC IMPOTENCE) :
Now for those who feels that one can determine the quality of a painting in 3 minutes, please take note,– and there are billions of you guys out there in this world: wow,– in 3 minutes?– like Professor Kinji A, or Aribert M,  Patricia B, Ph.D, from a  prominent art school; or Jane B, PH.D, from the Art History Department of a local university,….why? Do you really think you are smarter than the Alphaseer?  What is your reason? Because of the academic degrees you have stolen from a blind world? Wow–you must be so much smarter than Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso combined then! Wow, You must be so exceptionally smarter than that one man army, the great master Knox Martin then !
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In music, we should understand that there are as many impostors as there are sand grains on the beach. Wagner, Berlioz, Smetana, Mahler, Debussy, Prokofiev, Copland, Ravel, etc., etc., etc, . . . . you can even name some yourself,– or let us play this little game here: just give me any “composer’s” name, and I can guarantee you I am able to veto it without a second thought!
Believe me, my friends:Â Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Beethovan, Vivaldi, Handel, Schubert, Dvorak, and a handful of others, whose names I cannot recall off-handedly, are the only musical masters in the world! That has become the basis of my guarantee, since the real geniuses are so rare in number!
Not buying it? All you need is go sit down comfortably in one peaceful afternoon, with delicious tea in hand, and do nothing but listen attentively to the compositions from the various composers named above.
Then compare! Musical compositions are generated with sound energy,–  somewhat similar to the light- generated compositions of arts. After comparisons have been made, I can almost warrant that you will now begin to hate the impostors and eventually lose all patience with them,–my guess is: a child being yelled at, or a broken CD, maybe, ……!
The reasons for that are very simple: impostors’ musical compositions have no appeal whatsoever for your spirit. Their works are wasting the precious moments of your life and they are cheating the entire world for some very selfish purposes.
Yes, vermins of Humanity, you’ve got it!
How would you have guessed? That is precisely what the Alphaseer wants to say about them!
Finally, please lend some clarity to your inner eye, for true art’s sake: the performers of musical compositions are no masters,–“technicians” is all I can give them.
You can say there are better or worse technicians,–but with the masters, everything is absolute,– absolute and divine! Absolutely divine,–there you go!
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THE ENDGAME
Now look at Figure 3 and 4:
If XX IS THE “BEFORE,” XXX IS THE “AFTER.”
If XX is a 2 storey building, then the lower floor has no Qi. The Alphaseer must generate this Qi, making it available in both upper and lower floors.
That answer is XXX.
“Voila, le peinting fini!” Like Cezanne said. (hey, izzy, what is French for painting?)
The Alpha Seer has come into his end-game after deep meditation in beauty,
–a prolonged absence from all things worldly. . . .
DISCLAIMER: THIS GAME IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TO YOUR MIND AND SPIRIT, DON’T TRY IT AT HOME WITHOUT SUPERVISION, AS IT IS A GAME FOR THE ALPHA SEERS ONLY!
AN IN-DEPTH ANALYTICAL Â EXPLANATION OF THE ALPHA SEER’S MOVES IN THE ENDGAME:
Since in reality, you cannot simply move things about like moving furnitures inside a building,– the rejection of foreign matters must be dealt with! A surgeon would face similar problems during an operation on his patient. As soon as something from the old order is annulled, the incoming event must agree well with the existing state of affairs, i.e. Â agreeing with those structures that remain behind,–in terms of continuity, relationships, balance, movement, dynamic, etc., etc., etc., … In other words, it is not a mechanical operation and then, methodical connection,– rather, it is a full fledged “medical” procedure upon flesh and blood!
BUT ENOUGH!!!!! we are already venturing into WORTHLESS theories, Â bloodless speculations about art, Â aimless generalizations, programs, styles, or methods as I am speaking, see the danger?–so let’s not go there!
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Why am I doing and saying all this? Â It is so that you are able to discern, from an Alpha Seer’s point of view, how fragile a perfect composition can be? Compare this seriousness in attitude with that of the Everyman artist’s, who paints and draws totally at his whims, i.e. erratically, sillily, temperamentally, sorrowfully, egoistically, ….. Â ( Their batle cry being, “Anything goes!” remember? for them, even human faeces in a jar can be considered art!) and then the same chap has the temerity to call himself/herself a “painter,” or even a “master,” like our friends, your favorite “artists” Andy Warhol, Rauschenberg, Pollock, Dali, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Â favorite “art critic” Arthur Danto, Munch, O’Keef, and favorite “composers” Wagner, Copland, Ravel, Mahler, Â etc., etc., etc., . . . .–are you still wondering why impostors are being condemned here?
THE ALPHA SEER FORMERLY CALLED BEN LAU
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PROFESSOR LEANDER S. HUGHES’ COMMENT:
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Excellent lesson, Ben!
At first I was fooled by the lack of color in the original into thinking that it was the more concise of the two, but a second glance revealed the perfection of SummerHills which hits straight to the essential metaphor with no unnecessary frills to weigh it down- Dark and Light interlocking in an eternal love embrace!
Love,
Lee
THE ALPHA SEER’S COMMENT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
Many years ago, a young man came and thanked the Alpha Seer for a wonderful art lecture given to his school,– amidst the uproar created by the Alpha Seer from pointing out the truth about art. The young Leander Hughes had refused to share their herd instinct reacting to the lecture with jeers and loud comments.
Today the same man continues to thank the Alpha Seer for the recent art lesson. Leander S. Hughes has since become an English professor working at Saitama University in Japan. He is married to the beautiful Emiko Ito of Tokyo.
Is Leander the brightest of them all? I tend not to think so. The brightness of the moon is dimmed because of the cloud. The ego is the cloud. The minds of the other students were clouded by their egos. Â Leander was aware of it, that is why his brightness was so extraordinary!
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From:Â leander hughes <leanderhughes@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: complete or incomplete?
To: Ben Lau <alphaseer@gmail.com>
From:Â leander hughes <leanderhughes@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: complete or incomplete?
To: Ben Lau <alphaseer@gmail.com>