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House in an Olive Grove, Corfu - Invisible Studio

Invisible Studio are a radical and innovative group of architects, founded by Piers Taylor. They are interested in rethinking attitudes to d

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Throwback - 2020.

collage and acrylic on paper / 25X17.5cm

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"Charlie Kirk was advocating for gun violence! His death is deserved! He deserves to be shot!"

Did you know that the one quote you are phrasing is a part of a whole speech? The speech was not about "gun violence". It was about tyranny and what the Second Amendment actually stands for.

- "Yeah, it's a great question. Thank you. So, I'm a big Second Amendment fan but I think most politicians are cowards when it comes to defending why we have a Second Amendment. This is why I would not be a good politician, or maybe I would, I don't know, because I actually speak my mind.

- "The Second Amendment is not about hunting. I love hunting. The Second Amendment is not even about personal defense. That is important. The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government. And if that talk scares you — 'wow, that's radical, Charlie, I didn't know about that' — well then, you have not really read any of the literature of our Founding Fathers. Number two, you've not read any 20th-century history. You're just living in Narnia. By the way, if you're actually living in Narnia, you would be wiser than wherever you're living, because C.S. Lewis was really smart. So I don't know what alternative universe you're living in. You just don't want to face reality that governments tend to get tyrannical and that people need an ability to protect themselves and their communities and their families.

- "Now, we must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price. 50,000 people die on the road every year. That's a price. You get rid of driving, you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving — speed, accessibility, mobility, having products, services — is worth the cost of 50,000 people dying on the road. So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You could significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one."

Much different than just a quote, isn't it? Now, with that context, consider the quote:

- "You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."

Giving the end of his speech also to show you that he had more than this simple quote.

"So then, how do you reduce? Very simple. People say, 'oh, Charlie, how do you stop school shootings?' I don't know. 'How did we stop shootings at baseball games?' Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games. That's why. 'How did we stop all the shootings at airports?' We have armed guards outside of airports. 'How did we stop all the shootings at banks?' We have armed guards outside of banks. 'How did we stop all the shootings at gun shows?' Notice there's not a lot of mass shootings at gun shows, there's all these guns. Because everyone's armed. If our money and our sporting events and our airplanes have armed guards, why don't our children?"

Charlie Kirk did not just 'argue for guns'. He's arguing that with guns, you can protect yourself from government tyranny. His question is: "If we accept driving as a necessary part of life, why aren't guns the same way? Why are they so controversial?"

When looking at quotations, it is extremely important to consider the purpose of the quotation. College class APA citing, 101.

If you want to take it from him:

Here is the source.

(Tumblr inherently turns off my reblogs, I don't do it myself.)

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Wk 15, 17th of May, 2024 Artist Reference

Teresa Murak: Sowing

From the text, Teresa Murak by Appel Amsterdam...

Teresa Murak is one of the principal pioneers of Performance, Land and Feminist Art in Poland. With her landscape pieces, Murak utilizes natural materials, especially cress, to create in her terms "organic architecture”.

The concept and gesture of "sowing” – a spiritual and cosmic interpretation of the cultivation of seeds – defines Murak’s body of work and helped her in developing her own style of performative art that engaged with ritual processes. Her work anticipated Murak’s nearly fifty-year concern with the phenomenon of life and the process of growth. The artist emphatically acknowledged a religious dimension to some of her works, pointing at the sacredness of life, but avoided to draw direct analogies between different traditions and rites, such as combining the East with the West, or Polish Catholicism with Taoism.

Murak seems to have striven to express universal truths, beyond national, religious or stylistic divisions, to find the universal in particular manifestations.

Teresa Murak, Cress Smock, photograph of performance, 17 cm x 17 cm, Rzeźba dla Ziemi teresa Murak 1974

Teresa Murak, Sculptures for Earth, making the work, photography- black and white print on paper, 17 cm x 17 cm, Rzeźba dla Ziemi teresa Murak 1974

booklet, teresa murak, 1974-1978, artist words and works

Ecological themes play a significant role in her works – nature, connection between man and nature, plants and relation of man with them. She works with landscape using natural materials: sprouting grains that create their own organic architecture, growing leaven dough, clay, river sludge.

Her most important works: “Procession” (Warsaw, 2974), “For Earth” (Ubbeboda, Sweden 1974), “Sowing – lady’s smock coat”, “River sludge – material of being”. Her individual exhibitions were presented, among others, at the Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Bureau of Encouragement of Arts in Bielsko-Biała, Zachęta. In 2005 she was awarded Katarzyna Kobro award.

Teresa Murak, Starting with a Leaven- performance piece, Land Art Festival 2015, photography

Teresa Murak, Sculptures for Earth, photography- black and white print on paper, 17 cm x 17 cm, Rzeźba dla Ziemi

My reflection:

Land Artist Teresa Murak engages with the larger plain of the landscape. Yet, my practice focuses more on what comes away from the landscape in gleaning. Working out in forests, plains, large lots of gravelled land and grassy fields, Murak's practice walks deeper into wild nature than mine. Looking at the ritualisation, construction and manipulation of nature, Murak moves with hands in muddy soils. Nature covers the body or the hands in her works, specifically in works with her own cultivated cress fabrics. She engages with river sludge, leaven dough and forest soil as a way to connect with old knowledge.

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It's felony season, bitches.

I & M, in unison

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis became important in the collective thinking in the 20th century and this derived from Sigmund Freud, who in the end became one of his own patients. His book Interpretation of Dreams was a key to this term and he focused on the idea of how we can bring forward childhood trauma in an adult way.

The connection between art and psychoanalysis is that it makes the invisible visible. The role can be said to be the same (see below)

The Unconscious 

Freud believed that there was a part of the mind that was beneath the surface, kind of like the iceberg diagram. He also believed that we are driven by the pleasure principle. Sometimes the pleasure principle becomes too much and we need to go to the reality principle. This is split up into id, ego and superego (see below). 

id - impulsive and compulsive thoughts 

ego - image we have about ourselves 

superego - morals and idealistic which come about by societal pressures. 

We all have to bow to the reality principles. 

- if ages 0-1 are disrupted (e.g. not breast fed) it can lead to an oral phase of problems such as becoming nail biters.

- if ages 1-3 are disruptive (not going to the toilet when needed) it can lead to anal retentive such as being stubborn and tight fisted. 

- if ages 3-5 are disruptive (do not adopt characteristics of the same sex parents) it can lead to feelings of jealously, fear and rivalry. 

The Oedipus Complex can be said to be disturbing but is it really that weird when you go beneath the surface? 

The Inner Child shows conflicts between the inner and outer persona. 

We use shopping to work through the lack (the future from the past that is lost from when we thought we had immortality). Branding can be marketed by parental form. 

- Mother replacement - safety, security, honesty. 

- Father replacement - freedom, adventure, strength and encouragement with the freedom of man to go forward. 

Known as a defence mechanism as some of our thoughts may be seen as bad. How do we put those bad emotions and urges aside? 

When we are faced with issues we protect our egos via the defence mechanism which we do through displacement, projection, rationalisation, regression and denial. 

Radical artists such as Dali in the surrealism movement were inspired by these ideas (see below). 

An example of sublimation is the torches of freedom where women were smoking in the 20th century due to oral fixation. This can be seen as the first wave of feminism (see below).

(Above - documentary recommendation) Tech can be used to reprogram us as it sets off a reward chemicals and can become more addictive than drugs. Data is used to create psychological profiles to manipulate us. 

Do we reveal something or is it just a verbal typo? 

Free Association - where Freud would get people to lie on the couch and say the first thing that comes to mind and then interpret them to come from the unconscious mind. 

Automatic Drawing - Allowed hands to move freely and make the unknown truths come to life. Is it real? 

Sleep - Inspired by the interpretation of dreams

The Dream Collector - interviewed children about dreams and re-create them. 

4am knows all my secrets - exploration of sleep disorders 

So how valid are Freud’s theories today? (see below)

Bowlby researched into the Levels of attachment 

- Secure attachment - trust 

- Anxious attachment - clinginess and how small things are threats 

- Avoidant attachment - Withdraw and go away from things. 

The mirror phase - when a child first recognises self in the mirror which can be unsettling as we do not look how we feel inside as on the outside we are a contained entity. We end up being anxious about the way we see ourselves and that is how fashion profits off of us. Our own image is that of another. 

Films can be sympathetic of the capitalist age. Cinemas are a way to avoid reality which end up cutting out our psychoanalysis. 

Un Chien Andalou - Dream sequences and association 

Coma - A simulation to feel like you are in a coma and separate yourself from the reality 

Barzakh - 4 pour long trial with blinding lights, loud sounds and phobia induced simulations to cleanse people to have a sense of true empathy. 

The Monstrous Feminine - Gender in a woman's monstrosity - vanity, perfection and youth.

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