Art is not something that should be sequestered away from the public it also should not compromise its message to address everyone looking at it. If we continually dumb down our ideas so as not to offend people then we will end up with art work that is so simple it becomes a one liner. This type of art will not hold peoples attention beyond first viewing. I made traveling sporozoan to be an object not to be shown simply in galleries but to be shown in unspecified places at unspecified times: I believe in sharing the art I make. This doesn’t mean I give it all away. I am all for the free market and people making money from what they make I just don’t have a problem with giving it away either. I think the only way to change the world is to leave the selfishness and intolerance of the current world behind and show the next generation that sharing and working together are not bad things. Sharing my vision without compensation is not a problem for me. Just like sharing electricity that my house will produce when I have adorned it with solar panels will not be a problem.
I believe we can change this world, we can make it a better place for everyone if we just learn to move past our selfishness and intolerance.
I do not make any thing that is “slick”. The work I make is not buried in a tomb of art rhetoric. I hate slick overworked art. I like to make art that is continually evolving. That requires its maker and its viewer to always be asking it why are you here, what are you doing, and when will you change. Traveling sporozoan is never the same and always asking me to make it anew. Because I never really know where I will perform it next it truly has the ability to test me every time. Some times it is about narration, sometimes about time passage, sometimes about serendipity, sometimes about manipulating its environment but always about its place in the world. I truly believe art can change us but art has to change and become the thing that it is not in order to always make its self push the places it has already been.
Do your own research on the topic and listen to the ad. It says it is fine in moderation. OK maybe true but it is in everything. Look at your ingredients next time at the store. How can anything be eaten in moderation if it is in everything you are having for breakfast, lunch and diner. And as far as it being natural? Corn maybe natural but by the time you process it enough to make it HFCS it is not any where near being natural.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-fructose-corn-syrup/AN01588 Just one article of many on issues surrounding HFCS.Change the world do your own research and don’t believe a word you hear especially if it has been written by the company who makes the product.
he has been wearing the same clothes for three years because he wants to be able to pay for maintenance on his house and food for his daughter and school for his daughter and health insurance for his daughter. I hear your tax plan and it is just trickle down economics in disguise. You don’t speak for me or any common person in the country, you speak for your own selfish needs and those of your billionaire friends.
Change the world, cast your vote for someone who believes that we should work together for a better future for all of us not just those who can afford Versace.
I am sick and tired of hearing the republicans talk about who real America is. Let me tell you something about small towns. I grew up in one. They are xenophobic hives of hate and distrust. The whole time I lived in my hometown I wanted to leave. And another thing don’t tell me you are all about the needs of the common everyday working Jack and Jane and then spend as much on clothes in a month as they make in two years.
I never intended to drive so far in such a short amount of time. After I got up just east of Des Moines at about 3 AM Tuesday morning I was hoping to make it to Idaho by around 7 PM and then I would stop and get a hotel room. Well best laid plans never seem to work out. Nebraska went on forever.
I did have a very good breakfast in Waco, Nebraska at Annie’s Diner.
Cinnamon spent most of the time looking out the window.
Most of Wyoming was like Nebraska but half way through the landscape started to change. I wanted to stop in Idaho but the town I stopped in must have been having a festival or something because there were no vacancies so I pulled over into a truck stop and slept in the car for about two hours. After a truckers breakfast (well except for the meat) I rolled off again at about 3:30 mountain time. I was wired and drowsy all at the same time and really didn’t feel comfortable unless I was in the car and it was moving.
I went through Utah and Idaho mostly in the dark but Wednesday morning the sun exposed a new landscape.
And then came Oregon.
I was so beat by the time I hit Washington I could barely see straight. Check Zanne’s blog for my arrival and seeing Izzy for the first time in two months.
I did not finish everything on the house, but I have to face it, old farm houses can be worked on for a lifetime and it was my time to leave. I drove to my dad’s in northern NY and built a crate for an antique mirror that came from my grandmothers house. My dad convinced me to stay at his house take a shower and a couple hours of sleep before I headed west. It was the right thing to do. I left this morning at about 1:30 AM and stopped at about 6:30 local time in Grinnell, Iowa, 1256 miles after I left this morning. I would have made it to Nebraska but some moron in a Jeep was pulling a huge trailer and flipped it over on route 80 outside of Chicago, there goes two hours. One of the guys I worked with in Mass gave me a CB radio for the trip. It is a lot of fun listening to the truckers it also keeps you aware of smoky.
Cinnamon is digging the ride.
America is huge and really beautiful if you let yourself look.
I am not stopping to smell any roses on this trip I have been away from Izzy and Zanne long enough but that doesn’t mean I can’t get some shots from the car.
This has been most of my view today industrial farms and the backs of semi’s in front of me and the front’s of them behind me. Tomorrow I will cover over 850 miles in just two states Nebraska and Wyoming. The scenery is going to change drastically. I hope to make it to somewhere in Idaho or Oregon tomorrow. According to my Atlas I have about 1800 miles left to go if that is true I am arriving in Seattle sometime Wednesday afternoon.
My trip across country will begin towards the end of this week and it will include a couple stops to perform the traveling sporozoan. The idea of stopping at least once a day and performing the object just feels like a natural. I will try to document it as much as possible but being alone on the trip means I will need to rely on the kindness of strangers. We shall see. I will also have sporozoan t-shirts with me as incentive. Hey here is a t-shirt will you take pictures of me??
Life is an adventure and art is the beauty that looks back at us along the way.
It is going on two months that Zanne and Izzy have been in Seattle. I am ready to leave. I miss my girls and am really tired of working on this damn house non stop. Fall is here and I am having to build fires in the stove, it sucks.
