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Tumblrを始めてから14周年を迎えました 🥳

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“I tried to paint on canva : fists were paintbrushes & blood was oil.”

This piece is actually my first performance. My aim was to use my body as it really is : a material. So I fused a canva and a piece of waterproof fabric wherein I cut up a circle.

In that way, all I had to do was to hit the canvas with my fists, as hard as possible to paint the circle with my blood. I choose the geometrical form of the circle because in this work, I wanted to show what Man is able to do : From his most vulgar impulses like violence, up to his the most complex reasoning ability.

I did it during five minutes, I hit the canvas 569 times. I recorded it with a camera.

To my mind, that is what differentiates humans from animals : The competence of thinking before acting and to not yield to the most devouring impulses. I think this is why the Human is so tortured : He is without-cease tug between impulses and Reason.

Picture #1 : My fists some hours after the performance

Picture #2 : My fists two weeks later.

Pictures #3,4,5,6 & 7 : Some frame from the video recording I’ve made.

Picture #8 : The final object.

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Received an email from the owner of this very tidy LHD ST205 who lives in Poland asking me to post these up. Absolutely! This is a great set of photos and exactly what I’m on the look for when I search for content for this blog. Thank you for this submission.