The Stranglehold: Climate Crisis Between Cement and Fire
How my abstract eco-art painting maps the pressure of the Anthropocene on a fragile strip of life The Stranglehold is
Read MoreContemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Thinkism turns art into thinking. I use painting like critical writing. I use writing like a visual act. This category gathers my Thinkism texts and artworks. You’ll find contemporary art that argues, questions, and resists easy labels. Each image makes a claim. Each sentence carries form, pressure, and urgency. Thinkism rejects “style” as a cage. It works as method, ethics, and practice.
Here you’ll see projects, series, and prototypes from my studio. You’ll also read short essays, notes, and manifestos. I track how artists build meaning in public. I also track who controls that meaning. Institutions, markets, and media often turn complexity into branding. I push back with analysis and form. I focus on friction: visibility versus exclusion. I focus on taste versus power. I focus on emotion versus ideology.
Thinkism asks one central question. What changes when art interrogates reality instead of decorating it? If you want a category where critique meets composition, start here. Browse the newest posts first, then follow the series links.
Antonino La Vela, The Stranglehold (2025), 40 × 40 cm oil on canvas – abstract eco-art painting about climate crisis, cement and fire. How my abstract eco-art painting maps the pressure of the Anthropocene on a fragile strip of life The Stranglehold is
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Read MoreArt, Power & the Battle Over Memory Every society crafts its origin myths. The stories we repeat shape who we
Read MoreHow the most expensive NFT by a living artist challenges ownership, value, and the meaning of art When in December
Read MoreA Quiet Rebellion in a Loud Art World There are books about art, and there are books that dare to
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