#500 letters

[infectedechoes]

Day 2/30: A song you like with a number in the title: ⚜ '500 Letters' by Tarja Turunen ⚜

They found the final letter lying by his side A smile was on his face, cold as ice One last message written only for me "Now you won't forget, I see you in your dreams"

[tarjagraphics]

I see you in your dreams...

[taikatalvieikukaan]

[bigmickswingin]

Was playing around with dezgo and misclicked before entering a prompt, getting this:

I thought "hmmmm has potential" so i went to 500letters and had this magnificent artist's statement also generated:

Super-clump (Flavortown) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, his artworks references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.

His artworks doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, he uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.

His works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. By applying abstraction, he often creates several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, ‘mistakes’ are repeated.

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His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. With a conceptual approach, he creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.

His works bear strong political references. The possibility or the dream of the annulment of a (historically or socially) fixed identity is a constant focal point. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.

His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By investigating language on a meta-level, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.

His work urge us to renegotiate art as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.

His works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing.

His works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualise reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work.

[silencefromafar]

Tarja: 500 Letters (2013)

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I just found out that Tarja’s 500 Letters is about stalking. My respect for her has increased. So brave. And now I have two stalking songs(from the pov of the victim) that I love: Snow White Queen by Evancence and 500 Letters by Tarja.

[thenightwishsingers]

Tarja "Colours In The Dark" Track by Track Part 2 "500 Letters"

It felt so innocent, a childish game Lines of poetry without a name Waves of paranoia washed upon the page And soon obsession turned to rage Why do you love me? Why do you want to hurt me? 500 letters from a stranger at my door 500 weapons I can't take it anymore 500 letters, words like scars no one can see 500 secrets, slowly killing me

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500 Letters Gif Part 2