and it is something in her eyes in this photo
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” – Frida Kahlo
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while we search for the antidote, or medicine to cure us, the NEW, that which can only be found in th eunknown, we must continue to turn to sex, books, travel, even knowing that they will lead us into th eabyss, which is as it happens, the only place where we can find the cure
roberto bolano, the savage detectives
http://portlandartmuseum.org/view.image?Id=946
I remember that when i originally saw this work, before I knew anything much about Joseph Beuys…… I was almost floored my seeing in hang in the room, it inspired an awe which seemed to move down my body.
Beuys was always a myth maker, but one whose myth seemed to integrated and trasmutable.
I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express general beauty with the utmost awareness. Nature (or, that which I see) inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation (still just an external foundation!) of things… I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true
it seemed so stripped down
Henry Miller’s Commandments, from Henry Miller on Writing:
1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
3. Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can’t create you can work.
6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard the Program when you feel like it–but go back to it the next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.
henry milller
WE WANT
We are searching
changing
demanding a space to develop a discoursean investigation of multiple modalities of discourse; discourse is not only words, but action, behavior, exploration
a platform which gives us space to explore
a stronghold, access to space, collaboration, in order to progress/engage
(exploration of) (indication toward) new economic and social modalities, which are sustainable and invigorating
to ( re ) establish the necessity or art and artistic engagement
SIDELINE
PASSION ENGAGEMENT DRIVE
I move around this world, speaking to people, the man at the Bodega, with his 16 hour days, the meat workers whose wage fell to the minimum wage within the past years, kitchen workers 6 day a week 12 hour shifts; popping heart meds/5 hour energy/ scraps of bacon when no one is looking.
They are speaking, we are speaking.
(felt this thing shaking inside of me, as I spoke with the Mexicans, mucho trabajo, no me gusta, we go on to speak of dancing, when will they dance again)capitalism is trying to hold itself up on shaky legs us, we, all knowing that there are other ways of being in relation to each other and to the world.
The passion that we share for engaging, exploring, developing, is a place of enormous power It is time right now!
If there is a solid frame, a solid structure, the a space for engagement and discourse is open.
ETC.
to inspire, uphold, uplight each other (and the world)
that “life” is a complex and multifaceted thing, something connected to
this is going to be a powerful platform for engagement and exploration
a place for passion so it does not collapse in
(tess walkowski for rupture dust)
exhaustion. in between heavy fences. we forgot how to speak to each other.
and the streets. are not opening. very tired.
bring it back in somehow.
that is what your passion is for.
TESS TENNESSEE MILLER 