Serendipity being what it is

Premonitions and Flow

Five days ago I took one of my nibblings to see Flow. It was so good that two days later I took another one of my nibblings to see Flow. But in-between these two viewings, something happened.

Back in September I had begun reading Premonitions by AK Thompson. Over the next month I read to p. 93 and then took a break to read other things. For whatever reason, I picked Premonitions up again the next night after taking the first nibbling to see Flow. Whoa!

Be warned, this is a nerdy book, so dude is writing about “the resonance of romanticism” in “activist art and the bourgeois horizon” (p. 89). Blah blah. Social theory. History. Yada yada yawn. However — one of the artists that Thompson zeroes in on is Eric Drooker. (Never heard of him before. If he’s in earlier parts of the book I already forgot. Jus’ sayin’.) Without getting into the high-falutin’ stuff, Drooker is famous for some reasons in some circles and one of his famous artworks is a graphic novel called Flood!

My intuition — y’know, that spontaneous thing that happens when the neurons start firing — is that Gints Zilbalodis, who is the Director of Flow, is communicating similar kinds of things as Drooker did with Flood! It could be that Zilbalodis is talking directly to Drooker, either inspired by or directly building upon Flood! Or it’s just how art works: life becoming art, art becoming life, artists resonating with and reflecting the zeitgeist. Okay, bear with me, this is how it happened…