Barbara Kruger at Mary Boone Gallery

TV will destroy your sex life.

...Doing a little research on Barbara Kruger, the advent of MTV, and how advertising and multple mass media outlets has completely changed our perception of reality... i found this tid bit about how tv has changed relationships between people-- in particular, close relationships, like lovers and married couples... beware of the way it can stagnate your romantic life:

"You stare into my eyes each night at your devotions and my sense of time becomes your own, a thousand sofa-sunken evenings fused to one, lit by a mesmer fire of crackling cellophane irradiance.

You sit at night there on the couch beside your partner, yet have only eyes for me.

You listen to my voice in rapt attention, yet grow bored or easily distracted when your loved one speaks.

... And when at last you part indifferent to each other, who will you resort to in those lonely, post conjugal evenings if not me?

I am the only pure and true relationship that you will ever know."

 
--Alan Moore on the power of television in "Light of Thy Countenance"

 

 

My Man's a Veteran.

Thank you to all of the men and women who have done the hardest things imaginable. My biggest wish is that veterans are taken care of completely by the country of which they have risked or lost their lives. I can't even begin to understand what war is like and I am so thankful that I do not know. 
P.S. don't forget to get your free bloomin' onion from The Outback...


How do you thank someone for fighting for your lazy, condescending, American ass?
Well-- I'm not sure but I'll start off with dinner and a blow-j. ;]

Response to Maud Lavin's "The Berlin Dada Photomontages"

In Lavin's article on Hannah Hoch's work, she points out the idea of revolutions occurring when a group of people feel discontented or angry about a the present. There is no way to better the future-- or rather-- there is no will of the people to better the future if there is no anger. I think that Hannah Hoch embodies the dichotomy of anger and pleasure but mostly discontent in her works. Largely putting aside socioeconomic standpoints for a moment, just looking at her work puts you on edge. You want to know why are there floating heads, masses of people in corners, things coming out of others' ears, dancers acting uninterested? There seems to be so much confusion all at once-- so much happening that there is not a moment of peace. Machinery, chaos, flailing about, mad faces, etc. all join together in a stress-ball and that alone is enough to make the viewer think that there is something wrong happening. Hoch's work is visceral in that sense; you can automatically feel that there is an impending upheaval. One of the best lines in the article that speaks about but so far beyond art into the revolutionary scheme of things is this:

 "In order to imagine a better future, Bloch argued, a person needs a sense of anger and discontent with some aspects of the present. But he or she must also  know the experience of pleasure and have a feeling of entitlement to that pleasure in order to imagine an improved life." (30)

If anything I would say that Hoch's Cut with a Kitchen Knife is pivotal in the role of pointing out the upheaval. You have to wake up and upset the people to get them to do anything. 

(Written by Jodi Hebert-- please do not use my words in a form of plagiarism.)

Fight Club.

the tip of a ballpoint pen.

the cool breeze.

I made love to myself in the mirror, kissing my own lips, saying, "I love myself, I love you more than anybody."

New is only new when it's new.

 <3

 Just lovely.

 One of the best images I've seen in a while. Thanks, Byron.

getting tatted soon. (UPDATED)

                                        Manipura, Solar Plexus Chakra.                                          

 

above the scar in between my tits...

(image from January 2009-- two months after surgery which was November 14, 2008) 

Tattooed on August 3rd, 2011 at Santa Fe Tattoo Parlor by the very awesome Mr. Johnny Johno.

This is an image of my tumor. (6.7 lbs.) 

The piece of paper represents 2 centimeters.

Frida.

This is one of the first images I put on this blog. 

These are ovarian tumor cells and cross-sections.

Chakras. 

There's not much separating us. 

Jerry Uelsmann, 1972, Seaweed Womb.

Quite lovely and painful. 

Brilliant, elegant, introspective, quiet, etc. 

about making art...

this is one of the first bits of information i was told as an art major...

it's true.

i have got to stop chasing them boys away... damn.