In The Land of Blood and Honey

And here's one for posterity

Why is that Art?

Nietzsche

"Dionysian represents a collapse of borders,frenzy,and excess.  The Apollonian is close to Formalism.  The Dionysian embraces ambiguity, content beneath the visible surface, and messy complexity that a 'detached' gaze cannont reveal."

Nietzsche upholds asthetics over politics: He doubts that the ills of existence can be solved by politics and instead advocates that an asethetic appreciation of life can provide meaning and significance.  The essence of asthetic doing and seeing for Nietzsche is willful transfiguration and transformation toward perfection.  The aroused and frenzied will is the motivating power and aesthetic perception.

Words

seduction(seductive): enticing a person to engage through temptation and excitement; beguiling, captivating

sensual: provides gratification of the physical and especially the sexual appetites; physical rather than a spiritual or intellectual

sensous: appealing to the sense; appreciative of the pressues of sensation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVY5OBqG3Y&NR=1

Alkaline Fantasy

The Morning After



The dawn came sheathed in an alkaline mist
Intertwined with the ghosts of last night's fantasies
Curling and flaring
Charming though it is
Be warned it will strangle
With its feathery exotica
Forcing you to inspect the chiseled asphalt
Disguised with blooming jonquils
Before it recoils into the ribcage of the lagoon

What Else

I gave girl number one some skin. She has turned into the experiment one.  The second is of the next large drawing that I've started.  I don't know what she will be. I've now got three little metal creature things made.  One sheet of weldeable aluminum yielded them.  I have another piece that I will cut in to.  I am planning on torching the pieces, that way they have nice blue color.  This is what my head says, I still need to test it out. Got some used bike tire that I think wil look nice with it, but I didn't add the tire till the end of the sculpture the last time, so who knows.

What the Living Do

What you finally gave up. We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want
whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss — we want more and more and then more of it.
But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass,
say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep
for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:
I am living. I remember you.
-Marie Lowe, "What the Living Do"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1mVSTnzxBs&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF67E23BEC64612DD

Metal

Metal sculpture I've been working on.  I cut 1 inch slats from a sheet of thin steel.  I then attached them with rivets. I am thinking I may make a bunch of these shapes and incorporate bike tire, like my previous sculpture.

People in Pain

"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."

— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted


Elliott Erwitt
Jacksonville, Florida, 1968
From Elliott Erwitt: Personal Exposures

"As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature’s cage."

— Vladimir Nabokov, from “On a Book Entitled Lolita”

*taken again from liquid night

New Hardware

SO it was foolish of me to think that i'd actually stick to one thing.  I'm thinking i might make experiment with aluminum and bike tire.

Girl

Progress on new large drawing. its 6ft in length horizontally

..And of the Sound of Wind and Rain

I'm interested in a visual language that's over-determined, exhausted, or just over-burdened by meaning. The heavy-handed one-to-one of 'black-equals-wrong' is incredibly interesting to me -- less as something that has a meaning in itself, but more in how those visual codes can somehow become reanimated. That's constant throughout my work. All those images are like zombies -- they're stripped of vitality, yet sometimes they get life back in them ... and. like zombies, usually something goes wrong when they wake up again. - Banks Violette
^{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frh22M9FgZ0}

Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvDe1Hg73A&feature=related

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
*reblogged from liquidnight

Hoodoo

Midnight: the period between the time for good magic and the time for evil magic. 

The six months of the southern path of the sun, the path of smoke, of night, of the dark fortnight, leads other souls to light of the moon and to rebirth- said by Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita

After years of waiting [the Sphinx] was before me at last. The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing, so patient.  There was a dignity not of this earth in its mien, and in its countenance a benignity such as never anything human wore.  It was stone, but it seemed sentient.-Mark Twain

East of Eden

"Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
*reblogged from liquidnight

LA Vampires

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5OgfLVCjA

 Inside Looking Out
To dream of being inside looking out is a sign of sadness-000

Plate 10 NO.000 (Inside Looking Out) 1989 Glenn Lignon

Lilitu

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2011/10/lilitu-by-tara-mcpherson-for-k.php

St. Augustine

Emerson on Circles

“St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere…The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.”
Thank you, mythologyofblue.
*again, taken from http://crashinglybeautiful.tumblr.com/

NewSmall

New little studies for upcoming large drawings.

NewLarge

New shots of large drawing. Decided to go in different direction with it.

If we don't, remember me

http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/post/2315182428

Larry Clark

Went back up to jmoca this past weekend to hear a lecture given on Larry Clark's Tulsa series. The lecture itself was not all that interesting, but it was nice to hear about Clark's background and how the series came to fruition. I identify with Clark-if what the speaker said about him is true. How his feelings of isolation and need to feel connected led to destructive, counter instictual behavior (in my own words).  In my work, I'd choose to focus more on the pressures and problems faced by teenage girls.  Clark also apparently feels as though he has no relationship with his father.  Something I can identify with and which I think is a problem faced and improperly dealt with by many people.



This is my favorite image from the series. The angles in his back and the fluidity of the boys arm are just breathtaking.  The dark undertone is obviously implied, but isn't as blatant as in the other photos in the series.  The lighting also gives a luminous, uplifting quality to the photo somehow.
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/larry_clark/