February 2012
6 posts
you either (a piece of art advice),
you either need to rework the work you have already made to align better with your artistic conceptual concerns, or you need to augment your artist statement to align with how the work you have created turned out.
one is harder than the other, and one seems more authentic than the other, but that hardly matters to anyone but you.
feel your heart, it isn’t a matter of listening to it, it is a matter of feeling it inside your chest, drumming along in a rhythmic pattern not controlled by you, but by some greater governing force that determines how fast or how slow or how constant hearts may beat. and when your heart melts warmly like some flesh marinating in red wine, or when the lump that your heart is slices into your...
“The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you...”
– Harold Pinter
“There is a point when you have to leave your old self behind, pass through a...”
– John Graham on growing as an artist and as a person throughout the trajectory of your life, and on the paradox of becoming comfortable with discomfort.
have i grown to be something other than what i’ve always been? i hope so.
January 2012
43 posts
a case of you by joni mitchell.
Oh I am a lonely...
“It seems to me that life is a lot easier when our expectations don’t ruin...”
after being asked why i don't focus on the more...
the reason not to focus on the positive efforts of society that aim to bring about a more environmentally healthful, peaceful, and equal world is because of the pervasiveness of destructive crimes against the natural world and all of those creatures (including ourselves) within it. i do not think it is time yet for us to pat ourselves on the back. so what that we recycle, compost, and drive a...
“I’m still thinking of the most peaceful way to drift away.”
– Florence Johnson
“Are you aware of how certain you will fail if you try and compete with nature?”
– Iris Haussler.
“I figure since I only have one fucking body- I should just destroy it.”
– Andrea Degeus (on her desire to be covered in tattoos).
born to die by lana del rey.
come and take a walk...
“The days were quiet. They did not feel particularly quiet or happy but through...”
– John McGahern from That They May Face the Rising Sun (via gravellyrun)
nothing about life is righteous,
if there is anything to aspire to in this life, let it be this: to make the faithful faithless, the holy unholy, and the innocent disillusioned with all of the world.
better a devil you know than a devil you don’t.
damien hirst and lady gaga: evil masterminds or...
damien hirst is like the lady gaga of the contemporary art industry. he is shocking, transgresses tradition art practices, reinvents himself every few years, makes elusive and grandiose statements as to what his art is actually about, he refers to god a lot, is mega loaded, obviously has a be-dazzler, relentlessly considers himself an artist devoted to his art, and is adored by many and loathed by...
“Mature artists do things, create works, and then figure out what they are...”
– John Ford (on advising the “young” artist).
who is to say this is the only way? you can stop thinking when you’re dead.
“My works are like little puzzles, interesting little games. I play a game with...”
– Carl Beam (Canadian Ojibwe contemporary artist, activist and environmentalist).
will you follow me around for your whole life?
i was thinking maybe we should move to new mexico, what better place to be but where the mountains meet the desert?
contemporary sylvia,
n: if we were born 100 years ago, our names would be the author citation of so many quotes. we are simply too late. you know when you find yourself thinking a quote, then you see it written by someone else? frick i would out-did sylvia plath, i can think like she writes all day!
“Vegetarians and corpse eaters approach the same phenomenon- the consumption of...”
– An excerpt from Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals by Carol J. Adams.
“I could tell you now that I’m a vegetarian, but let’s just leave it at that. I won’t go into the reasons. If you don’t understand them, there’s not much I can say; and...
to bloom, to decay (the reasons for the whys),
i am getting a tattoo, and this is mostly an argument to convince my mother that it is not 1. stupid, 2. meaningless, 3. regrettable.
there are a few things that tattoos represent: they represent a moment in time, a period in your life when you deemed this particular thing important to you enough to have it permanently embedded in your skin. they then represent the thing in which you are getting...
you don't have to fully understand someone in...
new and better friends (needed),
c: i was just invited out to dinner with the girls from my program..
e: oh that is nice, included in the babysitters club once again…
c: but it was a crappy invite.
e: that isn’t crappy, you are just being critical because she didn’t say, “in honour of your existence, brilliance, charm, beauty, and amazing friendship abilities i would like for you to join us this...
my wit is sharp tonight, i'll protect you,
c: i am scared to go outside what with the stabber abound…
e: we haven’t any time for cry babies!
c: ow…
moments later…
e: ahhhh!!!
c: what?! oh my god!
e: i thought that crack was a step, and i thought instead of walking i was falling…
c: you scared the crap out of me!
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall...”
– Richard Siken
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin (via reluctantbuddha)
sort of like being reminded of things you already know but you need to hear every once and a while in order to have them fresh in your memory again.
and at once i knew, i was not magnificent,
December 2011
46 posts
“Without music life would be a mistake”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via talkativolive)