An aesthetic principle in which Realism is defined as a quality of perception; where the word ‘open’ stands opposed to closure of teleological explications. For example, mono-causal creationism is a ‘closed’ explanation of ‘origins’ in conflict with the manifest non-teleological character of existence. Counter-intuitive, aleatoric, absurd and indeterminate phenomena are the side-effects or spin-offs of non-teleological conditions, leading to the transgressive or perturbing nature of Open Realist works – works that, in an age beyond satire, will always manifest the forgotten, ironic, paraxial and chaotic spirit of Rhathymia.
A.C. Evans