01 Corpus of Research & Doctrine

This collection brings together critical and reflective writings that examine the aesthetic and ethical conditions of artistic experience. It bridges theory and encounter, situating art criticism as a form of research into perception, presence, and responsibility within contemporary visual culture.

31 Dec 2025 7 min read

Interpretation at Risk: Post-Interpretive Criticism After the 20th Century

For over seventy years, aesthetic theory in Europe and North America has operated on a shared assumption. This assumption transcends political differences, methodological divides, and institutional affiliations.

30 Dec 2025 15 min read

Before Meaning, Measure - Pythagoras, Proportion, and the Ethics of Post-Interpretive Witness

For the Pythagoreans, number was not abstraction. Ratio was not calculation. Geometry was not technique. These were disciplines of attunement. To study proportion was to bring the self into harmony with an order that already existed, silent, exact, and indifferent to whether it was noticed.

29 Dec 2025 14 min read

Post-Interpretive Criticism and the Seven Liberal Arts: How Ancient Disciplines Produced a Contemporary Method

Post-Interpretive Criticism emerges not as theory but as consequence. Drawing on the classical seven liberal arts, this essay shows how grammatical discernment, logical testing, rhetorical restraint, and proportion expose interpretive excess in contemporary art criticism.

23 Oct 2025 5 min read

||| The First Pillars Raised: A Statement on the Completion of the Foundational Trilogy

With the release of Volume III – The Canon of Witnesses, the foundational trilogy of Post-Interpretive Criticism now stands complete.

20 Oct 2025 6 min read

Against the Compulsive Urge to Interpret

Art today drowns not in silence but in surplus. Walls in galleries sag beneath explanatory texts, catalogues become mausoleums of interpretation, and critics multiply interpretations until the work itself is barely visible.