Recalling The Inkocene

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In the darkest time after C.’s death, when the past consumed the present and the future ceased to matter, memories of my Atramentocene—the ink art period, 1981–1995—resurfaced. Though long concluded, these recollections of the work and the era sparked a reengagement with art and the beginning of a new project. What started in 2023 as a distraction from grief, a way to escape the anguished circling around the loss of my life’s central meaning, initially served as a kind of therapeutic self-reckoning with that experience of loss—and ultimately gave rise to Arslohgo and his digital works. Recalling the Inkocene represents the final closure with early adulthood and its art. After a creative hiatus of nearly twenty-five years, the Digitartocene—the period of digital art, 2023 onward—has begun.