What’s happening here & there…
Balinese say, “We have no art, we do everything as well as possible,” which is sometimes translated: “We have no art, we just do the best we can,” or occasionally, “…we just try to get by.” Of course “everything” undoubtedly had a smaller compass when they first said, “We have no art…etc.” And at the moment we might well wonder what “everything” or “anything” was truly worth doing as well as possible or even at all? Not to put too fine a point on it, commodity and spectacle with a seasoning of greed, intentional ignorance, and more than a dash of vanity appear capable of compromising anything. Art has become impossible, and not just in the Balinese sense. But everyone remains an artist, even without art (we am large, we contain multitudes.)
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009)
My own current form is suffering serious time constraints, which in part explains the lack of activity here, but hopefully things will pickup. Spring’s on the way which should mean some new image work, and there’s a new web-experiment in the works.it’s still in cloak mode at the moment, but should surface sometime in the next couple of weeks.
