2024 January
Making and being
Back to the drawing board it seems. Why do I have to start from zero every time?
In 2023, I convinced myself that I had let go of ambitions and that it made me happier. Now I am not so sure.
I need to rewind a bit to the moment I had a clear vision of structure ahead of me. Pick up from there and create that structure.
Some random ideas:
NOT FOR SALE sign/painting
something with batteries
Long chain of batteries
Something about the chain of art, sources, inspirations, appropriations
Something about whiteness.
Reread Baldwin
The light and the dark
Associations we have and confront ourselves with them
Who’s money
who’s land
Who’s air
Who’s water
Our money
Our land
Our air
Our water
Money won’t buy you back your soul.
Bob Dylan
MONEY
I DON’T HAVE
TIME
FOR MONEY
YOU WANTED INTERNET SO YOU COULD KNOW EVERYTHING
AND YOU CHOSE NOT TO KNOW
WHEN THE KILLING
THE KILLING
LOOK AWAY
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
I DON’T TAKE SIDES
IT’S COMPLICATED
Martyrs
ISR deaths - few
PAL deaths - many
Video scroll all names, just different colors
LANDGRAB
a mouth with a balled up map stuffing it
BURNING MAP
Map cut up an stuck back together
What kiefer does, with scale and without the trickery and thick paint.
NOT FOR SALE sign/painting
something with batteries
Long chain of batteries
Something about the chain of art, sources, inspirations, appropriations
Something about whiteness.
Reread Baldwin
The light and the dark
Associations we have and confront ourselves with them
Who’s money
who’s land
Who’s air
Who’s water
Our money
Our land
Our air
Our water
Money won’t buy you back your soul.
Bob Dylan
MONEY
I DON’T HAVE
TIME
FOR MONEY
YOU WANTED INTERNET SO YOU COULD KNOW EVERYTHING
AND YOU CHOSE NOT TO KNOW
WHEN THE KILLING
THE KILLING
LOOK AWAY
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
I DON’T TAKE SIDES
IT’S COMPLICATED
Martyrs
ISR deaths - few
PAL deaths - many
Video scroll all names, just different colors
LANDGRAB
a mouth with a balled up map stuffing it
BURNING MAP
Map cut up an stuck back together
What kiefer does, with scale and without the trickery and thick paint.
HOLY WAR
WIN THE WAR
LOST
GOLD (anything mined)
OIL
ENVISION
Uprising by boycot
Do less
Work less
Re-Distribute
What does that look like?
All the things Jeff Bezos could do.
Re-greening, Re-wilding,
What do people really need. Keep the list short. How can we reduce transport and physical international trade. Intellectual international trade.
WE
told you so
MAKE IT ALL
JUST START
maybe start with car dents and details
Get back into painting
GET an assistant
To do a dangerous thing with style is art
I have seen dogs with more style than men although not many dogs have style
I’ve men in jail with style
Style if a difference
a way of doing
Bukowski
WIN THE WAR
LOST
GOLD (anything mined)
OIL
ENVISION
Uprising by boycot
Do less
Work less
Re-Distribute
What does that look like?
All the things Jeff Bezos could do.
Re-greening, Re-wilding,
What do people really need. Keep the list short. How can we reduce transport and physical international trade. Intellectual international trade.
CAN
THEY
TELL?
WE
CAN
TELL
told you so
MAKE IT ALL
JUST START
maybe start with car dents and details
Get back into painting
GET an assistant
To do a dangerous thing with style is art
I have seen dogs with more style than men although not many dogs have style
I’ve men in jail with style
Style if a difference
a way of doing
Bukowski
What we see with local journalism in Gaza. We can learn most from the opressed because the oppressor is disinformed, due to lack of interest.
Turn the camera’s away from the western model. The art world is leading the way in that sense. Referencing to non-white narratives and identities.
Reflections:
Reflect things in shiny reflecting buildings
- fire, burning cities, bombed cities
- water, ocean, raging or still
- desert
- broken windows, abandoned buildings, bombed
- plane crash, bomb falling
- tanks, armies,
- people distorted
- cars
Reflections in water
- things morphing into another
Polititians and suits:
Suits, shaking hands, no faces, just haircuts, hands on shoulders, personal gestures, zoom in, just a moutt, just a smirk. Many hands, many smirks, just eyes etc.
Skeletons, all animals.
Dead inside.
Cannot be killed.
Cars. replacement for a person. A life form.
80’s electronics:
When the future was cool.
LOOK AT US NOW
LOOK AT YOU
ALL GROWN UP
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
OVER
MY
DEAD
BODY
Turn the camera’s away from the western model. The art world is leading the way in that sense. Referencing to non-white narratives and identities.
Reflections:
Reflect things in shiny reflecting buildings
- fire, burning cities, bombed cities
- water, ocean, raging or still
- desert
- broken windows, abandoned buildings, bombed
- plane crash, bomb falling
- tanks, armies,
- people distorted
- cars
Reflections in water
- things morphing into another
Polititians and suits:
Suits, shaking hands, no faces, just haircuts, hands on shoulders, personal gestures, zoom in, just a moutt, just a smirk. Many hands, many smirks, just eyes etc.
Skeletons, all animals.
Dead inside.
Cannot be killed.
Cars. replacement for a person. A life form.
80’s electronics:
When the future was cool.
LOOK AT US NOW
LOOK AT YOU
ALL GROWN UP
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN
OVER
MY
DEAD
BODY