(xerox scans and writing components)
Kneeling, picking at the lock for days
my fingertips are bruised and bloody.
My mother comes and lifts me off the ground,
lowering my body into iodine bath.
Every limb disappearing
into opaque brown pool
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Going down by the water
for my weekly buoyancy test.
Still too hollow.
Playing a game of chicken with myself
and laughing just a little bit
detail of installation
A page about hair combing in the Book of Symbols struck me. The act of combing creates aesthetic order. You delouse a demon by combing through its hair but too much combing becomes paradoxical. Excessive combing makes things less orderly. I wanted multiple screens playing to show the obsessive nature of it. There have been a lot of things I have been trying to control lately that resulted in a lack of control.
Aesthetics is a classification within the nine major institutional categories as defined by sociologist William Sumner and anthropologist Albert Keller. These institutions are cages of humanity. We spend a lot of time consciously controlling how things look and how they make us feel. But by doing that we only create more disorder. Just as when you obsessively comb your hair, you end up with knots. Things don’t necessarily look how they are.
Woodblock prints on various handkerchiefs and kitakata paper. An exploration on theosophical forms and color theory.
