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.

16 Oct 2025 6 min read

Moral Proximity: Ethics as Method in Post-Interpretive Criticism

Art criticism has long been animated by the impulse to possess. To interpret is to seize, to colonize, to stand over a work and declare its meaning as if it were territory.

16 Oct 2025 6 min read

The Custodian of Consequence: Reframing the Role of the Critic

From its earliest days, art criticism carried the weight of conquest. To speak about art was never a neutral act; it was to assert dominion over what couldn’t speak back.

15 Oct 2025 4 min read

A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism

Post-Interpretive Criticism isn’t a style. It's not an attitude. It's not nostalgia. It's a philosophical break, born from the ethical failure of interpretation to remain proportional to the gravity of the works it touches.

15 Oct 2025 18 min read

The First Break Since Postmodernism: The Rise of Post-Interpretive Criticism

Art criticism, for decades, has loitered in the aftermath of ideas. It has curated, not conjured. Rarely has it risked proposing new ground.

15 Oct 2025 2 min read

Language as Custody — Writing Without Harm in Post-Interpretive Criticism

Every sentence is a trespass, unless it’s written with permission. And permission is earned, not assumed. To write about a work of art isn’t to describe it. It’s to touch it with language. And like all touch, it leaves a residue. Some hands hold gently. Others bruise.