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This site is devoted the work of Knox Bronson: composer, writer, singer, artist, sculptor, video-maker.
Of course, he is writing these very words, right this moment,
with that weird disassociative feeling one gets when one writes or
talks about oneself in the third person.
But Knox
knows that you, the reader, his audience, wants the big story, not the
little story, not the homey, falsely modest and unassuming journal-like
essays you find at the sites of most of the other wannabe's on the web.
So Knox suffers this cognitive disjointedness to enhance your, the
reader's, experience at this site. As Van Gogh told Gaugin, one must
suffer for art.
Van Gogh also said, on his deathbed, just before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, "The sadness goes on forever."
Before Knox goes any further, he wants you to know that he could not
have done any thing in his life without the help of other people, be
they, among others, members of his family, certain teachers, numerous
friends throughout his life, as well as the artists in every field, too
numerous to name, whose works opened worlds to him.
And I think at this point, I should revert to first person.
I wrote this about my old site, Instrumentality,:
One
day I will figure out a way to promote this site. I've never quite
figured out its [this website's] purpose other than to share whatever
I've been working on. Some men pursue money as the ultimate goal and
measure of man. I've always liked girls better. And my art. And anybody
who appreciates my art. But that doesn't work very well in the real
world. So be it.
SunPopBlue is here to change all that, kids, my droogies, my brothers and sisters!
It's a strange thing, when one thinks about communicating directly to
one's "audience." Part of me says,"Let the art say it all," while
another part says,"MySpace has changed everything. People want to know, want to be a part of, want a peek behind the curtain."
Warhol said,"If you want to know about me, look at the surface of my paintings. They are all surface."
He was quite a joker. Warhol was at once as opaque and transparent
as could be possible in the realm of art and words and, perhaps, most
importantly, his own image in the realm of public perception.
Andy didn't have to worry about the internet. I wonder he would have done online. Going to think about that.
This site is a drug-free and guru-free zone. Knox grew up in the
sixties, a fourth-generation West Coast lad, and came of age in the
seventies.
He partook freely in the pursuit of sensation and elation
through much of those decades and beyond and has, unfortunately, seen
far too many of those closest to him fall into the abyss, too often
with fatal consequences. Suicides, overdoses, car crashes, all manners
of drug and booze related death has Knox witnessed close at hand. As well as plenty of generic insanity.
Knox
himself has been booze and drug free for over sixteen years.
Knox is not anti-drug. Knox is, however, pro-sobriety, but has no problem with
earth-people getting drunk or high or whatever it is they do on
occasion. Knox is not preaching: please feel free to use any of the
drugs he somehow missed in the old days, as well as swill any booze he failed
to drink.
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Knox 
