G A M M M

THE OUTER BANKS
You could say that characters in The Bible were obsessed
 with hiding their nakedness
I touch the leg of the table with the toe of my foot
The child searches in a drawer for the damaged toy
Feeling of love were impaired by excessive anxiety
I put in my order for the butcher before it gets too late
 & […]

       
My first rule in art-making: the work must have being, presence.
Second rule: it must be strong and beautiful. Third: it must be positive.
Metaphors for the work: energy object.
The real thing that brings real smiles.
John McCracken
[from: John McCracken, Almine Rech Éditions, Paris, 2000. Image: two McCracken works from Documenta XII, Kassel, 2007.]

FOURTEEN POEMS
Similarly, whereby the current polarization
Holds out little hope for lasting revision
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Meanwhile tragedy outgrows its religious
Origins in an effort to encompass
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A dip in air pressure, the sense that daylight
Has slipped from its porch onto the grassy night
*
Need, ambition, unrest, and one-dimensional
Thinking latticed on a horizon of metaphysical
*
Rather than its extension by mutual process
Into means, and […]

Taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions, past and present […]. Create a situation which does not erupt so much as emerge from normal conditions which are radically altered […]. The artist’s objects and environments draw on a repertoire of daily use and are produced to mimic the […]

WITTGENSTEIN’S LADDER
 
“My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands them eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them––as steps––to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)”
––Ludwig Wittgenstein,  Tractatus
 
 1.
The first time I met Wittgenstein, I was
late.  “The traffic […]

COWBOY PLAYS - A Game of 52 Soaphorse Operas
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COWBOY PLAY #1
SCENE: The Forest
SQUIRREL #1: Nuts!
SQUIRREL #2: Nuts!
SQUIRRELS #1 & #2: Delicious!
CURTAIN
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COWBOY PLAY #2
SCENE: The Fireplace
LOG #1: I’m burning!
LOG #2: I’m burning!
LOGS #1 & #2: Rather not!
CURTAIN

(Project Row House, Houston, Installation view; Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles.)

Welcome to my blog
Calendrier 2000
Do you want love or lust?
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Rating
Everything
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(Image: Claude Closky, Untitled (NASDAQ), 2004, wallpaper, silkscreen print.)

(Fiona Banner, Leaning nude, Graphite on paper, 2006, 1301PE, Los Angeles.)

 
we sell chaos for international situation
 
why art?
 
find out what your future contains
 
don’t smile
 
I’m not for sale
 
we kill for money pay now
 
be yourself don’t cry
 
this is not art so don’t worry
 
don’t throw away anything today it’s art sell it as art
 
get out of here quick save money
 
get what you want now
 
rien est grave
 
words are […]

Zachary Schomburg
da: THE MAN SUIT. 2007

THE WHALE

1.
When I was young, my mother
was eaten by a whale.

2.
I buried myself in the sand,
in my whale pajamas
and my whale-shaped slippers.
I was uncovered a million times
by people who would say things
like you’re too old for those clothes
and I’ve saved you.
I would say things like
they’re all I have
and from […]

Zachary Schomburg
da: THE MAN SUIT. 2007

WHAT I FOUND IN THE FOREST

1.

I found a group of
inappropriately dressed
women inside
a hollowed-out tree.
They all had hidden agendas.
When I asked Marlene
her name, she told me Madeline.
When I asked why
they were in a hollowed-out tree,
all of them became
suspiciously uneasy –
particularly Marlene
who told me to stop
talking as she handed me
some beautiful flowers.

2.

I […]

We must analyze and understand our contemporary everyday world as if it were the everyday world of a historical society. For example, the everyday world of Pompeii at the time of 79 B.C., when Vesuvius buried the city once and for all.
(From the catalogue of Ordinary Design exhibition, Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt, 1976. Image: Brandon Lattu, Miracle […]

(Acrylic on paper, 100 x 70 cm, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino.)