Thursday, December 31, 2015

Everyday: 12/29/15

Northern Cross (found installation; rural Valle, AZ)

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Everyday: 12/22/15


Piece (plaster, debris, newspaper fragment from 1946) 2015 


- excerpt from Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance, by Philip White

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Everyday: 12/16/15

2 in 1 intervention


 (parachute survival bracelet)



(wrist-watch face)

Monday, December 14, 2015

our responsability

“Artists are citizens before they are artists. Being an artist does not negate the responsibilities of citizenship. Artists should use [their] voices and [their] capacity for expression to make meaningful noise and rebuttals in these troubled times.”
- Dawoud Bey, quoted here

Saturday, December 12, 2015

abstraction ideas I agree with

Insistence on form alone assumes that form arises out of the ether, a priori, without any context or culturally specific symbolic meaning — a theory espoused by the original guy at the back of the philosophy class. In other words, it assumes a universality, a common language across all people, which is not only factually wrong but also ethically and politically problematic, because it asserts that the values of the person making the argument are not only (falsely) universal but superior to other beliefs as well, by virtue of their universality.
There are no universals in form, in meaning, in language, in beauty, in any of the realms that a number of Modernists hoped for. Even the laws of physics lie. There is only multiplicity — messy, chaotic, conflicting, enriching, and life-sustaining.
-from 
Muddying the Circumscribed Myth of Abstractionby Alexis Clements

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Everyday: 12/9/15

when survival is a:
1. game
2. gamble
3. commodity


Sunday, December 6, 2015

Everyday: 12/6/15

(color pencil and collage on book page)

Saturday, December 5, 2015

notes (permanent global civil war)

notes from the Hito Steyerl lecture - University of Chicago // December 1, 2012

Everyday: 12/5/15

From the Photos My Grandmother Gave Me After Someone in Her Family Died (digital photograph)