THE LONG BLACK ROAD

OK, so I often talk about taking the less travelled road and also the scenic route in my posts. And for better or worse my life as I have lived it and where I find myself is as a result of this inclination to follow these paths. By most accounts I am a huge failure, [...]

By |2019-05-02T04:50:22+02:00December 24th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on THE LONG BLACK ROAD

TSUNDOKU

Tsundoku: the act of leaving a book unread after buying it; typically piling it up together with other such unread books. This singularly perfect Japanese word wonderfully describes my present condition. This is not to say that I am not reading. No, on the contrary, I am reading (and writing) in vast amounts. But it [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:03:43+02:00June 20th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on TSUNDOKU

swany: Revisited

My final year students are in the process of conceptualizing in order to create a body of work for an exhibition at the end of the year. One of them is dealing with social media and this resulted in me reflecting on my own troubled, ambivalent history with this post-modern form of interaction. I thought [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:07:26+02:00May 31st, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on swany: Revisited

Act Accordingly

I really enjoy this quote: “Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio,” Teresita Fernández said about being an artist, “the way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote … will also become the raw material for [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:33:32+02:00September 5th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Act Accordingly

Performance Art 101

swany - untitled performance January 2016 Today I feel all of my days, each and every one: each and every second, minute, day, week, month, year…hell, every milli-second of my existence. My meat aches, my bones creak, my muscles are stiff and sore, I move like something very brittle and fragile, like ice [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:41:49+02:00February 24th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Performance Art 101
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