01 Corpus of Research & Doctrine

Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC) isn’t a methodology one applies to a work. It’s a moral orientation — a shift in how one stands in front of a thing that breathes silence. Before the critic speaks, before the essay is begun, before the language is chosen, there is the moment of approach.

Witnessing vs. Interpreting – A Post-Interpretive Comparative Exercise

You Have Entered a Room. Now What?

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.

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.