Everyday: 12/29/15

Northern Cross (found installation; rural Valle, AZ)

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

Everyday: 12/16/15

2 in 1 intervention

 (parachute survival bracelet)

(wrist-watch face)

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

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 Abstraction, by Alexis Clements

Everyday: 12/9/15

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

Everyday: 12/6/15

(color pencil and collage on book page)

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)