My old thoughtfactory website (thoughtfactory.com.au) has gone. It was constructed in 2019 as a business which is no more, and the domain could not be renewed without having an up-to-date ABN. So it is a fond goodbye with nostalgia to 6 years of blogging and photography. It was a learning curve to the present, which is Light Paths. The present then is after thoughtfactoy’s demise.

The roots of Light Paths lie in a failed attempt to help foster art photography in South Australia that failed to get off the ground, due to lack of support or interest. Light Paths, as a replacement of thoughtfactory, centres around contemporary photography that continues to look back on what has been in what Arthur Danto has called the post-historical era.

Danto’s category of the post-historic era is a complex concept that combines three different senses: 1) the ‘end of art’ in the Hegelian sense: the conversion of art into philosophy, 2) the ‘end of art’ in the historiographical sense: as the end to the narratives of the history of art, and 3) the ‘end of art’ as the beginning of a new period in history.