1. Abstract paintings are figurative paintings of abstract paintings and therefore not abstract.
2. Figurative paintings are only figuratively figurative.
3. Abstract paintings are only abstractly abstract.
4. Jompiy is abstract for a maximum viewing time of five seconds.
5. Figuration at creation is censorship of abstraction and therefore unstuckist.
6. By removing the mask of abstraction at early exposure Jompiy gives abstraction content.
7. Art that has to be figurative to be art isn’t art.
8. Abstraction is realism.
9. Jompiy sacks the artist’s brain and switches the roles of hand and eye.
10. Jompiy is freedom from the worthless distractions of human expression, emotion and intent.

Jompiy
23rd April 2024

First published by Black Ivory Printmaking & Audio Club, Muswell Hill, London UK.