(A woman comes into the frame, smiling.)

“Good morning,” she says with a light but husky voice.

“This morning we are in the booming Horse Shoe arts district, in North Carolina, which reminds me so much of Venice, Italy, minus the canals and contributions to the Renaissance. It seems to me this is the destination on the mind of every gallery owner, as it has become a very public space, and so I may need to do an entire series of videos for my faithful viewers. Stay glued to your screens!

So as you notice my long blonde flowing hair and my Barbizon walk, today we are touring Ray Holland’s newest exhibition, which is located just down from Drugs and Ammo on a blind alley. It is easily found by following the one-way flow of the crowd.

This exhibition is titled Light Cannot Escape. I love how this artist is so modern and without humor in his celebration of our cognitive detachment from self. We sense immediately he is anxiously, even with a bit of paranoia, awaiting the coming AI Singularity when we will no longer know where the light has gone, or care, but what of it? We will at last as a species no longer need to penetrate beneath the surface of things,

We see this represented in a painting he calls Mating on the Left Hemisphere. Like many of today’s masterpieces, when you see one you have seen them all, which we importantly call Abstraction.

Here we don’t see the whole-mess-of-life (because we have been to art school). We focus instead on the details of the details, even what we call marks on the canvas.

The subject matter is of course a couple. But notice how the artist has transformed the implicit and robust into cliché, shaping life into the lifeless, with pain staking effort painting the known explicitly. It is enough to remove the awe from your breath.

I am particularly admiring of the algorithms in this vision. Any quaint representation of Beauty and Truth has long ago been scraped away with a palette knife of procedure until all salient experience is nearly erased,

But we are running out of time, and so do notice me in my expensive outfit and shoes, as we move on to a different gallery, back deeper to the left brain, turning down Main Street which has recently been renamed Delusion Boulevard, which in just a few more steps….will lead us to our final gallery destination.

As you notice my walk again, this would be a perfect time to support my channel and don’t’ forget to hit the subscribe button.”