Easter Eve and the Opposite of Now

All opinions expressed are those of Jon Keppel and not his place of employment.

Reverence invoked.

It is April 4, 2026, the day before Easter.  I just got finished watching a very good short video about Marcel Duchamp’s art piece titled Fountain.  I write here out of sincere wish to be of my day and time and to carry on the conversation that I feel has been flowing through Western art while also transcending it and contribute to a timely notion of world art as I have said before.

I just attended the Public Library Association convention this past week.  I am reminded of my meta-lived involvement with democracy as a library worker.  I truly believe that I have humbly made a very valuable contribution to the history of Western art in working as a library worker for seven years as art. 

I have said this many times in my writings and video lectures and in person lectures, but I will say it again because I believe it is true and happening now.  The zero point of our collective consciousness has gone from art as object to art as concept to now art as people, lives, and life itself as art. 

I feel and know that I always had it in me to make a significant contribution to the world of art as I grew up and later on carried on with my life.  The artness of me, the art soul in me, my artist soul helped to make everything that I did be art.  But truly I feel even if one does not identify an artfulness in their soul or that they even have a soul, life can be art.  I call this life art.

I should say that I have highly emphasized the importance of Love in the life art endeavor.  I do not have any children or grandchildren of my own, but I say this to others in the spirit of a mother or father, a grandmother or grandfather who cares for their young implicitly and unconditionally.  I know with all that I am that I am the father of life art. 

This understanding is more than conceptual, more than an understanding.  It deals with being.  Religions traditionally are about beliefs.  Philosophy is about ideas.  Life art is about being.  This is where I feel the activities of my life synchronized with the eye of the art spirit to uncover how deeds themselves in everyday lived reality can be art. 

Really all of my life is life art.  I think it helps to describe it also though in the terms of working at a library as art.  The service and public nature of it are factors.  I believe it is a form of public art, lived public art.

You must see from this that the stakes change drastically when you change the locus of art from a canvas, or screened film, a stage for a play or the written world of fiction in a book.  With life art, the stakes are with actual real human beings and the extended objective world of life as we know it. 

I believe for posterity it may be useful, a kind of useful shorthand to refer to me as the guy who worked at a library as art.  It is a very potent shorthand of the efficacy when one takes lived action to be art and harness their creative energies and life force channeling them into interpersonal interactions with other human beings in real time in life. 

I come back again and again to the lived reality of Love as being the fundamental principle to start from and continue with life art.  It is Love that is for all people everywhere throughout all time, past, present, and future and what was before the past and beyond the future including the opposite of now. 

I hope that you will see the immense importance of remembering the Love that you truly are before living your life as art.  It will help you to do so.  It is all Love in the end, the Infinite Eternal Now that includes the opposite of now. 

Know this deeply in yourself, the Love not only that you give or receive but that you rightly are.  That Love is life art and from it comes what I have come to know as Good Power.  We will need this Good Power going forward to rise to the challenges of our days and ages.  This understanding and its practice is something that can truly be unpacked and expressed, explored, cultivated, developed, and furthered for centuries to millennia going forward. 

Love is the truth.  Seek it no longer.  Awaken to who you truly are, and it will be found.  The expression of that truth is the art that will carry us forward not only in time but in space. 

Life art is a craft for life.