Memory Replacement - Roaming Installation and Performance with Public Participation at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York city - Final look of the Dress
Memory Replacement - Roaming Installation and Performance with Public Participation at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York city /
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The most incredible day in my life will never be erased - Memory Replacement Roaming Installation and Performance with Public Participation at the World Trade Center Memorial site /
Small Step /
Can't even begin to describe my feelings on November 4th, I was so much touched by your generous words and gestures, it was the best day of my life. I was humbled by so many positive engagements from all of you who braved the brushes /
Memory Replacement Roaming Installation with Public Participation, Sunday, November 4th, at the World Trade Center site ! The best day of my life, I was humbled and touched !! Thank you! x200 soon
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Thanks to Kenneth James for the incredible photographs and for being a great partner at the World Trade center site.
The most incredible day in my life - I was humbled and touched by all of you. Thank you. /
I believe one day violence will be obsolete, and will be forgotten /
I know in my heart that one day we will be among the stars, just the way we witness all the incredible miracles at the palms of our hands today and think, boy, how did Plato manage without a phone. Just kidding - he did just fine, it is not about the technology, it is about the people. I believe that violence takes so much of our focus and energy as species, it is almost like we carry a heavy sack of tumors on our backs. We spend so much time and resources on things like security, prisons, guns, fences, locks, .. and so little on building ourselves a better future.
It will take a set of very determined people to change everyone's mind, just like it took a lot to change our minds on all kinds of things like slavery, women's rights, gay rights, basic freedoms, democracy. It will not take a state but a person or several that will not stop until it is changed, I do not know if these people were born yet but it is coming. It will take for a strong person to say "enough" and turn humanity around.
I believe one day we will use the freed resources to spread among the stars, to travel further into unknown galaxies, to venture into black holes, to cross unfathomable distances and push unthinkable boundaries. It will be so much fun I think, and I have a good time contemplating that future - it will be so much fun to be among the stars with incredible machines and inventions that will keep us safe and traveling into far horizons, zipping among gas clouds and super novas, and swirling down wormholes into unexplored neighborhoods.
We will deserve this future once we outgrow our basic natures, once the enlightened politicians are born, once humanity realizes it is simply too costly to be violent.
The most important thing an artist have to tend to in their career is their heart and soul /
I had such a punch in the stomach at Delacroix at #TheMet , I will be coming back many times, truly felt the super powers of art. Incredible one in a life time exhibition, and I have never been a Delacroix fan before. The most important thing an artist have to tend to in their career is their heart and soul.
Today is a windy day in New York city and i am not doing the installation I planned, it is going to be essentially kites blowing in the wind day. So it is back to basics day, i go over some ideas, i look into my favorite philosophers, art history and think about the ideas and the books and the work i will make.
Artwork is being wrongly described by medium – art is the heart and the soul of the artist coming through a medium.
Throughout history artists have been involved in some sort of shenanigans, whether happenings, parties, studio 54s and factories, down the rabbit holes, insane asylums, Pacific islands, ideas, ideologies, fights for freedoms and rights, there’s always some sort of writhing which always accompanies the gardening of the soul. Transcending reality just like escaping gravity, needs super power of some kind, a burst, a bomb, a will, and a lifetime of all of the above.
Here in this Delacroix self-portrait you can see said power for yourself.
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Animated Red /
Animated pen and ink drawings, based on a drawing of the same name.
Hands in Central Park – the first day with the hands in Central Park /
I had only three hands with me this day and had them go over several railings, asked a few tourists to help me out with making some of the shots.
Hands Waterfall in Central Park – The Second of three site-specific installations I created in Central Park on October 10th /
Hands Waterfall in Central Park - First of three site-specific installations I created in Central Park /
Hands Dry Waterfall First of three site-specific installations I created in Central Park.
Named this installation after a poem from Hyakunin isshu that read: “Though the sound of the cascade long since has seized
we still hear the murmur
of its name”
Did three installations yesterday, started 6am on the south east side of central Park and hung the last in the middle, didn't want to annoy the central Park staff as I worked without a permit so I let installations stay for an hour or so/ let people take pictures before I took them down and moved on. Had great conversations with people's from all walks of life, ages, and corners of the world including fishing for caper s with a 10 years old.
The first in a a series of impromptu efimero structures around Central Park that I did yesterday, I haven't really picked locations prior so when I saw something that looked interesting I decided to throw the hands in, with the generous non interference from the park staff, it was a very peaceful day with a lot of energy and interaction with a lot of people.
I did not have a permit so very glad Central Park staff did not really harass me but they did start cutting grass at some point so I had to leave. I wouldn't really know what to ask a permit for since I don't work with a plan I basically decide on the spot what to do with the environment based on that very environment so the work is very spontaneous and efimero and I'd like to keep it that way I don't want to plan it and I don't want no execute a plan it's just not interesting.
Wanted to share with you these amazing detailed photos of Tree of Life /
One of the most amazing things that happen when drawing is that there is this incredible surge of adrenaline, The Surge of adrenaline cannot be compared to any other activity, it's the high of a process. The reason drawing is special to me is because it's a very personal way of working you keep very close to the surface there is no distance whatsoever, the surface and you constantly exchange DNA due to the proximity. The fact that there is a lot of detail requires constant presence so there is no really coasting when making a drawing. I really like the very personal way of working when I draw, in this manner without many words or any other Grand things I show my love for the world and at the same time I protect myself from the world by building a perfect world, a world without blemish or strife, an eternal life.
Tree of life, 30 x 40 inches, pen and ink on hot press board, 2018 /
Just returned from the astonishing exhibition of Delacroix paintings at the Met /
And I didn't see even one third of the show, and there was another exhibition composed entirely of his drawings.
I had such a punch in the stomach that threw me back to where I came from to begin with. To the very beginning of why i want to do art in the first place. Delacroix's world is my world. The world of Michelangelo, Durer, Leonardo, Rembrandt, the greatest artists in the world that ever lived, and their spatial and chromatic sensibilities. This is why I like brown. And marble.
I had such a head spinning experience and there was so much emotion in me and so much taking in of paintings I couldn't sit still at the exhibition and will be coming back many times. Delacroix will be my beacon and mentor for the next few months. I will come back to see his work, and his words.
I reflect on why i think beauty is important. Beauty is important because it transcends and transports, and my own duty in this world is to produce as much of it as I can, and cause as much of it as I can in the world.
As I sit here reflecting on Delacroix, I think a manifesto of sorts, of what to do. I will do relentless beauty through works large and small. I will work with ideas large and small, that reverberate. I will put enough power, intellectual and worldly so these ideas have enough trajectory to shoot upwards.
I reflected on what I want to achieve with my Memory Replacement World Trade Center installation and performance - I want to overwhelm with beauty and color and life, with a human touch, with a personal stroke and with the closeness and within the personal space of a human being.
Giant hands in Beacon - many thanks to all the creatures involved /
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I wanted to thank nature for allowing me to do this, because it could have been much more difficult for me - I have a phobia of bugs, insects etc so any sort flying things like bees, wasps, bats ( other than mosquitoes ) would have sent me off. Also wanted to thank the local police and the local bullies for only showing up one time.
. Giant Hands in Beacon - it is getting dark, a bit more loud and the hands are slowly turning. As evening approaches in Beacon - i have to fold everything up before it gets dark, and all the hooting starts.
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Giant Hands in Beacon - the frivolity of weighting little /
Often when we try to achieve visual quality - like in the case of the giant hands - color and strong presence - we lose the frivolity of having the art object simply be. Sometimes art objects need to be left alone to simply be otherwise just like people - they gain weight, become less frivolous and less dynamic. The life goes out a little. I loved being in this place, in the company of bushes, crickets, birds, wind, greenery, ruins, graffiti, and random humans.