Alex Staines ~ Paterfamilias
In lieu of any credo I carry a portmanteau of assorted beliefs that I have found to be indispensable when on active duty.
I am drawn to hermetic worlds that maintain their coherence due to arcane laws that confound the philistine observer.
Here are a few of my favourite things ~
A Moving Painting
A successful work of art occupies the territory between self and other. It infers a dream shared between artist and audience. Listen to something we made.
Divinest Melancholy
Refined dolour is the appropriate state for contemplation and creativity. Darkness is a fertile soil, and tribulation the food of champions.
Undulating Lapses
I belong with the cool, subjective language of the imagination pioneered in the 19th century by Baudelaire and Huysmans.
A Sleepy Conscience
The existence of the world is an aesthetic phenomenon. The hero with perverse skill opposes the banality that is the enemy of life.
> Encomium
Alex Staines created all the content on this website, and took many of the photos. Freshfields Design did a stellar job on the design; and the site was expertly developed by ThreePoint.