Worst Fear/Best Fantasy

Simone Meltesen Makes Art

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I just updated my website with a handful of paintings I made this past winter.

www.simonemeltesen.com

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What’s happening in the studio.

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New paintings up now

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New studio is finally set up! Just started working in it yesterday. It's been too long!

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The current status of the new studio.

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New things happening in my post-Mfa studio.

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   Another photo of the Navajos banning the swastika.

The document they are signing starts off: “Because the above ornament, which has been a sign of friendship among our forefathers for many centuries has been desecrated recently by another nation of peoples.”

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[second paragraph] “Therefore it is resolved that henceforth from this date on and forever more our tribes renounce the use of the emblem commonly known today as the swastika or fylfot on our blankets, baskets, art objects, sandpaintings and clothing.”

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“But I’m using it in it’s ORIGINAL meaning!”

Nope.

My respect and my heart goes out to the Navajo nation for the willing amputation of a symbol that belonged to them. I had no idea.

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There are variations of the swastika all over the world. Hitler ruined it for a loooooot of people.

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New studio in Long Island city, queens! I'll be sharing w a friend when she gets back from a residency in August, but right now I have a lot of space.

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Me and Sophie Grant’s paintings with Jen in the uhaul, in the freight elevator in our new studio building, and a shot of the new studio we’ll be sharing.

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Early evening light

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Hunter mfa thesis show opens tonight, 6-8pm. 205 Hudson street gallery, entrance on canal.

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Done.

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Done.

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Started a new painting, finished some, in the middle of others.

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Todayyyyy

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Studio today

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not yours to determine how good it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is ever pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Martha Graham to Agnes De Mille (via afairytalekiss)