User:Stratos McMoffa/Fringeshfit

Fringeshift - An artistic movement beginning in 2003 in the Pacific Northwest. Fringeshift is associated with a philosophical approach to art as well as a particular lifestyle. The artistic movement known as Fringeshift is devoted to aesthetic beauty, theoretical scientific exploration, conceptual idealism, humanitarianism, environmentalism, philosophical ideals including both romantic intuition and objective reason and spirituality. Fringeshift is referred to specifically as the space where paradox is resolved or at the very least "harmonized". Similar to the event horizon of a black hole, the space recognized as Fringeshift is where forces of one meet with the forces of another. Fringeshift can be a metaphysical and philosophical concept identifying an idealistic approach to creative living. Fringeshift attempts to recognize life as an opportunity to consciously engage one's being as existing in synch with the forces of the universe. Just as an alpine skier symbiotically uses the forces of gravity to skillfully ski down a mountain, a person living with the philosophic understandings of Fringeshift will align themselves with the forces of the universe to skillfully and symbiotically live life. Decisions made are based on a recognition of intuitive or instinctual feeligs in addition to objective knowledge and experiential understandings. A Fringeshift lifestyle is recognized as creative for it is a balance of both conscious decision making and organic or spontaneous unfolding. These two tendencies when applied to artistic pursuits create synergistic works of art whether visual, musical, literary, scientific, philosophical, mathematical or spiritual.

Finge Physics is a derivative of the Fringeshift movement. Fringe Physics is often theoretical and developed by avant garde explorers of science. Fringe Physics is tested most commonly by thought experimentation and theoretical physics application. Fringe Physics attempts to apply unlimited metaphysical concepts to the limited understandings of known physics and scientific thought. Laws of physics are regularly discarded by Fringe Physicists who attempt to articulate or demonstrate ideas deemed impossible.

Shawn Foote (born Tacoma, WA, August 24, 1974) is recognized as the founder of Fringeshift philosophy and is an artist and public school teacher living in the Seattle area. Foote’s artwork and lifestyle is largely indicative of Fringeshift ideals. Foote’s oil painting Fringeshift is one of Foote's seminal works.

www.shawnfoote.com