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.