Filed under: Cut & Paste, Experimentation, Favorites, old new | Tags: coincidence, collage, found, Kuwait, objects
We had quite a huge dust storm a few days ago. The next day I found this paper in one of my plants. Just a single sheet of paper, blown away from its book, among other windswept jetsam and flotsam. I picked it up and thought: hmm, I wonder what bit of knowledge/nonsense has been dropped into my bushes. I must say I did a few literary double-takes when my eyes started picking up the words on the page: plants, seeds, rain, semen, birth. Apparently this page is from a chapter or section comparing the planet Earth and its plants to a woman giving birth. Other passages include the sperm of man being compared to raindrops. Anyway I saw the whole thing as a sign somehow and stuck a pretty picture on it.
Filed under: Black Sketchbook, Cut & Paste, Experimentation, Favorites | Tags: ASK, black, blocks, cut, desk, detention, hope, ink, paste, pen, politics, punishment, sketch, Sketchbook
the most important building in the world
These are three pages from my black sketchbook. I bought the sketchbook a few years ago because I liked the novelty of it, and I knew that I would have to somehow work around the problem of drawing on black pages. One of the ‘projects’ I gave myself was this one: I asked my friend Simon to cut me some snippets from the paper he had just finished reading (which was The Guardian Weekly). Then I gave myself the challenge of ‘ad libbing’ some sketches while incorporating into them the scraps he gave me. I think I did a pretty good job. I was pretty happy with the results anyway. (more…)
Filed under: Experimentation, Favorites, Plays | Tags: dolphins, dream, dying, ethereal, flowers, jellyfish, Kuwait, playing, ponds, swimming
i'm a dolphin playing with silverback jellyfish
Filed under: Favorites, Rants & Raves, Sketchbook | Tags: endorphins, hurt, medicine balls, months, pain, pleasure, weeks, wind, worry
I had a pretty taxing week, straight off the heels of a few shitty months. It feels like the wind has been blown out of me and replaced with endorphins. Pain is great, if only to make what comes after it much more pleasurable.
Filed under: Experimentation, Favorites, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition, Rants & Raves | Tags: anonymous, art, culture, gig, Kuwait, lime green, magazine, pink, underground
In 2006, I had this idea for an anonymous magazine, giving the writer/artist/photographer not just the freedom to display uncensored work, but the opportunity to be whoever they chose to be. The concept was to go all out, no holds barred. I e-mailed, messaged and called my most opinionated/creative friends and requested (demanded really) submissions. (more…)
