It’s John! Being his goshdarnit-sweet-as-can-be-angel-self and reminding us all that life is rich with textured sadnesses that will eventually transform into the source of wry, self-deprecating fits of laughter. It’s part of a longer speech at the beginning of that live version of the track.
I bounce around from everything from hip hop to recordings of 1930′s prison work songs to shitty pop to country to music made out of office supplies, so I suck at answering these kind of questions. I will, however, link you to a frenzied summer crush mania mix cd I made this evening… for what it’s worth.
Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2003, installed at Mass MoCA, personal photo
“Fabricated in cast aluminum, the two figures in Couple (2003) are meant to hold on to each other for eternity. Bourgeois suffered from a lifelong fear of separation and abandonment, a dread rooted in the events of her early childhood. Made out of various materials and at different scales, and sometimes hanging precariously together from a single wire, Bourgeois’s many couple sculptures express an anxiety defined by the potential loss of the love object. The suspended sculptures also have the capacity to spin in opposite directions, existing in a perpetual state of fragility and ambivalence. Spirals, which abound in Bourgeois’s work and are echoed in the movement of the rotating figures, have duality inherent to their form:
‘The spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos. It has two directions. Where do you place
yourself, at the periphery or at the vortex? Beginning at the outside is the fear of losing control;
the winding in is a tightening, a retreating, a compacting to the point of disappearance.
Beginning at the center is affirmation, the move outward is a representation of giving, and giving
up control; of trust, positive energy, of life itself.’”
#louisebourgeois is my witchy den mother (at MASS MoCA)
Louise Bourgeois, Pass, 1988-1989, marble, 50 ½ x 47 x 37 inches
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1991-2000, white marble, two units
1st: 73 × 74 × 115″; 185 × 188 × 292 cm. 2nd: 80 ¾ × 43 ½ × 100″; 205 × 110 × 254 cm.
Louise Bourgeois, Nature Study (Velvet Eyes), 1984, marble, steel, 26 × 33 × 27".
(Personal photos)
excerpts
Have you ever read the Fountain Head?
fervently conveying all of the socialist indignation I can summon
As somebody who has no recourse but to exist in my own head, I urge you to find a more hopeful god.
affliction does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
Robert Hass
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my text message history
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