a meditation on my attempt to abandon my fears in 2008.
::”waking up” by Piano Magic::
“a man’s feelings are more rational than his mind” -Ralph Ellison
A few weeks ago was the annual New Yorker festival and Miranda July was speaking and I waited 7 hours to make sure I had a seat in the front row to breathe the same air as she… and I did! I also made her a dvd with this video on it -I’m basically dedicating my life to her. :: music by my roommate, Josh Anderson ::
I just finished reading the book by Georges Bataille and it blew my mind while grossing me out, so in the spirit of my vertigo, here’s my rendition. ::”providence” by deerhunter::
so first of all - I’M PISSED OFF -it’s so perturbing when I come back to Texas and see countless trucks and SUVs with “my son is in the US army” on the side of their bumper. So I spent all of June building a large video sculpture installation piece for such hypocrites in their gas-guzzlers, only perpetuating our dependence on foreign oil. the words spoken by this dead soldier figure are from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; this is re-edited to see the video as is, and at the end the sculpture in its space. Click here to watch