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yamamanamaChloë is studying illustration. She has a choker with a pendant depicting the planet Saturn and cat-ear headphones, and despite those, she has dogs, not cats. Her hair is a rainbow sherbet of lavender and celadon and drought-stricken lilac.
A woman with curly hair and a rose pattern shirt and a tattoo on one arm depicting a black snake and a red rose and a tattoo on one arm depicting a woman with bird wings for arms doing ballet called my drawing of her dope. I've never had a drawing called dope. Cute, yes, and awesome, and amazing, and beautiful, but never dope.
The woman at the desk's necklace reminded me of India's. India is named for the Indus River, which flows mostly through Pakistan.
Nari Ward is a recent citizen who immigrated here when he was 12 and lived most of his life as a legal resident and recently became a citizen.
Flickr can be a pain in the ass sometimes but at least they're all in one place complete with descriptions, along with a few things that were on view in Philadelphia but not in Boston.
Happy Smilers was inspired by a candy store that in reality was a front for small-scale illegal gambling. Inside is a fire escape with a potted aloe vera plant over a tray of salt and sand, surrounded by fortifications of discarded furniture, mostly fans and air conditioners, a refrigerator with Batman stickers on it, a couch. The walls are yellow.
There are the sounds of rain falling on a tin roof inside and of Jamaican folk music called mento playing outside.
Canned Smiles. One is a yellow tin of Jamaican smiles, one is a dark brown tin of black smiles. His kids smiled into the Black Smiles cans while he smiled into the Jamaican Smiles cans.
I've brought up the time an Italian artist canned his shit when he wanted to say that people will buy anything from a famous artist. Nari Ward was inspired by this same artist.
I'm wondering if imgur has trouble uploading from certain urls because of certain characters like - .
Or maybe not. I don't know. Imgur might be on some kind of blacklist. But then again, if websites could prevent their images from being uploaded to Imgur, Facebook would be the first to enact this policy.
The letters S O U L were lit up. I'm not sure what SROUCIL is supposed to mean, although sourcil is French for eyebrow. Srouoil has results but they all look like a digital converter malfunctioning. For what it's worth, it's an out of use liquor sign. Oh, I get it. That's not a C, that's a Q. See, this is why I waited until now to post this entry. It's covered with the tips of shoes and fake flowers, like a roadside memorial.
Beat Box is a discarded phone booth once ubiquitous, with a pair of hand drums and a fire extinguisher attached. In the 1990s, Harlem was blighted and garbage would lie abandoned and all but fossilize before anyone came to pick it up. Nowadays, he has to retrieve objects he wants as soon as he can lest the sanitation department spirit them away to a landfill.
Homeland Sweet Homeland references the Miranda Rights on it. It also has silver spoons and barbed wire and megaphones.
Naturalization Dressing Table. People would fill out a form, stand in line, get their photograph taken, and have the printout attached to the wall.
Their right ear is essential for identifying and is always shown and jewelry is always removed. It's meant to simulate the process of becoming a US citizen. One of the subjects said it was really awkward and she didn't always know where she was supposed to be or what she was supposed to be doing and that's intentional on Nari Ward's part
Nari Ward doodled on some naturalization and citizenship forms.
A tanning bed made from oil barrels and old computer parts. It would play whistled patriotic tunes and Pop Goes The Weasel.
If you used it, you'd get stars on your chest/back and stripes on your arms. In tropical countries, tourists are encouraged to sit by the pool or beach and get a tan while darker-skinned locals are discriminated against.
Rock booked scissors vice. He thought blacks had their own law book, which would make sense, as there are many things that carry the death penalty, like eating skittles while black and going to a pool party while black, but Black is actually the surname of the man who wrote it.
A chase bank sign with Afro combs, cowrieshells, which were once used as currency, and weatherstripping. It was displayed in Harlem, where poorer residents are being displaced. We really need to rethink our system if gentrification, segregation, and white flight are all detrimental. The docent said that contemporary art leaves a lot open to interpretation but that's part of the fun of it.
Still easier than Instagram, though.
We The People is written in shoelaces. A democracy is comprised of many small parts. It's only readable from a distance.
Vertical Hold is old glass bottles inside a spiderweb based on bottle trees, an apotropaic sculptural form, found amongst the African diaspora.
Oriented Right was inspired by his visit to a church that was a stop on the Underground Railroad, where there were holes drilled into the floor so escaped slaves hiding below could breathe. Ward shuffled across the copper with shoes dipped in chemicals.
Iron Heavens: burnt baseball bats, an instrument of violence, with sterilized cotton, a plant associated with slavery. The holes in the pans evoke the stars people would use to escape the plantations.
Sarah. Bird. Miles. Ella. Max. They're all jazz musicians. I know who the middle ones are. Well, middle ones at the ICA. Sarah might be Sarah Lois Vaughan and Max might be Max Roach or Max Miller or Max Kaminsky. I had to ask the docent because I'd be lying if I said Miles Davis was alive from 1993 to 2014. That's just the time period in which they were made, kupo.
Shopping cart with a throne of domestic items.
Shopping cart garlanded with gas cans, a chandelier, a cage with a trophy inside.
Chrysalis is placed against a mirror. No explanation is given. I thought I saved the URL for it. But maybe I didn't because it's only slightly larger than my avatar. Maybe if it was 1999 or or we lived in some kind of horrific alternate reality where telecommunications patent hoarding was rampant and we were all subject to Shannon's Law, it would be acceptable.
Chair legs on a log. At least, that's what I thought it was. Someone compares it to roadkill. And who knows, maybe it is.
There are seats made from old tires you can sit in.
Sky Juice: a street vendor cart with the umbrella made from red tape and part of a fence covered in white goop, which Boston Hassle tells me is made from dirty worker's gloves that were drenched in Tropical Fantasy soda several times over the course of a few years. At one point, there were rumors about Tropical Fantasy sterilizing black men.
An enclosure of bed frames with heat lamps and fans, meant to evoke the Jamaican climate.
Mango tourists: foam snowmen with embedded resistors and capacitors and mango seeds. It was made for MassMOCA in North Adams, which I visited for a field trip in 2003 and I remember trees growing upsidedown and pictures of flooded living rooms and Kara wearing her nametag sideways in order to one up people who wear them upsidedown and EXCELSIOR, for which you have to raise your arm triumphantly when speaking. It's Stan Lee's catchphrase. No wonder it sounds so triumphant. MassMOCA is a repurposed factory.
When I search for Excelsior in northwestern Massachusetts, I get a comic book store in Maynard, which is in Eastern Mass, a shipping company in Lee, and a commercial printer in North Adams. Fraxinus excelsior is not indigenous to Massachusetts but has been introduced.
Dana Schutz's art depicts people in uncomfotable situations and the uncomfortable political situation we are in. This stuff is easier to find than Nari Ward's stuff, partially because of manufactured controversy that I will not go into. Joke's on you, though. You just made my life somewhat easier. Not that much easier because I still have to repost everything on imgur, which is actually not that bad for rehosting images I find online so they don't vanish into the aether.
This is based on a Beckman painting and depicts people oblivious to the unpleasantness that is about to hit them.
There are twelve paintings of people fighting in elevators. One kid thought the leg looks like a knight in shining armor and once he said that, I couldn't stop seeing that, even though I'm pretty sure it was meant to be the leg of a man in a gray suit.
One kid said it looked like they were playing Twister.
It's kind of like when you hear about things like west nile virus and triple E and you can't stop itching because of that.
When swimming, you are aware of your own breath. From above, she is an island, below the water, her features melt into an aqueous swirl of colors. You can't smoke, cry, and swim at the same time.
She mixes the colors she's going to use before she starts painting.
Piano in the Rain
Punch a Nazi. Speak out against racism and prejudice.
The book The Most Magnificent Thing has a pug.
A passenger noticed my Shakespeare shirt and was going to see Hamlet but wasn't able to see Romeo and Juliet, thought it was going for all summer.
Sometimes my instinct pays off.
Alissa looks a bit like Katie, this means nothing to you, I know, except her chin is pointed and not cleft, and her eyes are dark as onyx. She photographed my drawing of her prematurely and I had her take another one because she needs eyebrows. She is studying biology. Unfortunately, she got off at JFK/UMass and I finished Girl, Interrupted while waiting for my dinner earlier. Which was amazing, by the way. It's called Nua Nom Thok and it's a salad of lettuce, onions, scallions, cilantro, and grilled beef covered in ground roasted rice, in a spicy lime dressing.
I saw a thinkpiece about how the far right isn't a past and this isn't just a dumb Blast From The Past™ that was posted at an inopportune time, it seems to be written in response to the terrorist attack in Charlottesville.
I told Holly that I can see people making excuses or claiming it was a false flag or ignoring it entirely.
I was morbidly curious as to what THE LIBERTY ZONE had to say but thankfully the site has been closed for a few months.
burning question: how exactly are statues more important than human lives?
A woman with curly hair and a rose pattern shirt and a tattoo on one arm depicting a black snake and a red rose and a tattoo on one arm depicting a woman with bird wings for arms doing ballet called my drawing of her dope. I've never had a drawing called dope. Cute, yes, and awesome, and amazing, and beautiful, but never dope.
The woman at the desk's necklace reminded me of India's. India is named for the Indus River, which flows mostly through Pakistan.
Nari Ward is a recent citizen who immigrated here when he was 12 and lived most of his life as a legal resident and recently became a citizen.
Flickr can be a pain in the ass sometimes but at least they're all in one place complete with descriptions, along with a few things that were on view in Philadelphia but not in Boston.
Happy Smilers was inspired by a candy store that in reality was a front for small-scale illegal gambling. Inside is a fire escape with a potted aloe vera plant over a tray of salt and sand, surrounded by fortifications of discarded furniture, mostly fans and air conditioners, a refrigerator with Batman stickers on it, a couch. The walls are yellow.
There are the sounds of rain falling on a tin roof inside and of Jamaican folk music called mento playing outside.
Canned Smiles. One is a yellow tin of Jamaican smiles, one is a dark brown tin of black smiles. His kids smiled into the Black Smiles cans while he smiled into the Jamaican Smiles cans.
I've brought up the time an Italian artist canned his shit when he wanted to say that people will buy anything from a famous artist. Nari Ward was inspired by this same artist.
I'm wondering if imgur has trouble uploading from certain urls because of certain characters like - .
Or maybe not. I don't know. Imgur might be on some kind of blacklist. But then again, if websites could prevent their images from being uploaded to Imgur, Facebook would be the first to enact this policy.
The letters S O U L were lit up. I'm not sure what SROUCIL is supposed to mean, although sourcil is French for eyebrow. Srouoil has results but they all look like a digital converter malfunctioning. For what it's worth, it's an out of use liquor sign. Oh, I get it. That's not a C, that's a Q. See, this is why I waited until now to post this entry. It's covered with the tips of shoes and fake flowers, like a roadside memorial.
Beat Box is a discarded phone booth once ubiquitous, with a pair of hand drums and a fire extinguisher attached. In the 1990s, Harlem was blighted and garbage would lie abandoned and all but fossilize before anyone came to pick it up. Nowadays, he has to retrieve objects he wants as soon as he can lest the sanitation department spirit them away to a landfill.
Homeland Sweet Homeland references the Miranda Rights on it. It also has silver spoons and barbed wire and megaphones.
Naturalization Dressing Table. People would fill out a form, stand in line, get their photograph taken, and have the printout attached to the wall.
Their right ear is essential for identifying and is always shown and jewelry is always removed. It's meant to simulate the process of becoming a US citizen. One of the subjects said it was really awkward and she didn't always know where she was supposed to be or what she was supposed to be doing and that's intentional on Nari Ward's part
Nari Ward doodled on some naturalization and citizenship forms.
A tanning bed made from oil barrels and old computer parts. It would play whistled patriotic tunes and Pop Goes The Weasel.
If you used it, you'd get stars on your chest/back and stripes on your arms. In tropical countries, tourists are encouraged to sit by the pool or beach and get a tan while darker-skinned locals are discriminated against.
Rock booked scissors vice. He thought blacks had their own law book, which would make sense, as there are many things that carry the death penalty, like eating skittles while black and going to a pool party while black, but Black is actually the surname of the man who wrote it.
A chase bank sign with Afro combs, cowrieshells, which were once used as currency, and weatherstripping. It was displayed in Harlem, where poorer residents are being displaced. We really need to rethink our system if gentrification, segregation, and white flight are all detrimental. The docent said that contemporary art leaves a lot open to interpretation but that's part of the fun of it.
Still easier than Instagram, though.
We The People is written in shoelaces. A democracy is comprised of many small parts. It's only readable from a distance.
Vertical Hold is old glass bottles inside a spiderweb based on bottle trees, an apotropaic sculptural form, found amongst the African diaspora.
Oriented Right was inspired by his visit to a church that was a stop on the Underground Railroad, where there were holes drilled into the floor so escaped slaves hiding below could breathe. Ward shuffled across the copper with shoes dipped in chemicals.
Iron Heavens: burnt baseball bats, an instrument of violence, with sterilized cotton, a plant associated with slavery. The holes in the pans evoke the stars people would use to escape the plantations.
Sarah. Bird. Miles. Ella. Max. They're all jazz musicians. I know who the middle ones are. Well, middle ones at the ICA. Sarah might be Sarah Lois Vaughan and Max might be Max Roach or Max Miller or Max Kaminsky. I had to ask the docent because I'd be lying if I said Miles Davis was alive from 1993 to 2014. That's just the time period in which they were made, kupo.
Shopping cart with a throne of domestic items.
Shopping cart garlanded with gas cans, a chandelier, a cage with a trophy inside.
Chrysalis is placed against a mirror. No explanation is given. I thought I saved the URL for it. But maybe I didn't because it's only slightly larger than my avatar. Maybe if it was 1999 or or we lived in some kind of horrific alternate reality where telecommunications patent hoarding was rampant and we were all subject to Shannon's Law, it would be acceptable.
Chair legs on a log. At least, that's what I thought it was. Someone compares it to roadkill. And who knows, maybe it is.
There are seats made from old tires you can sit in.
Sky Juice: a street vendor cart with the umbrella made from red tape and part of a fence covered in white goop, which Boston Hassle tells me is made from dirty worker's gloves that were drenched in Tropical Fantasy soda several times over the course of a few years. At one point, there were rumors about Tropical Fantasy sterilizing black men.
An enclosure of bed frames with heat lamps and fans, meant to evoke the Jamaican climate.
Mango tourists: foam snowmen with embedded resistors and capacitors and mango seeds. It was made for MassMOCA in North Adams, which I visited for a field trip in 2003 and I remember trees growing upsidedown and pictures of flooded living rooms and Kara wearing her nametag sideways in order to one up people who wear them upsidedown and EXCELSIOR, for which you have to raise your arm triumphantly when speaking. It's Stan Lee's catchphrase. No wonder it sounds so triumphant. MassMOCA is a repurposed factory.
When I search for Excelsior in northwestern Massachusetts, I get a comic book store in Maynard, which is in Eastern Mass, a shipping company in Lee, and a commercial printer in North Adams. Fraxinus excelsior is not indigenous to Massachusetts but has been introduced.
Dana Schutz's art depicts people in uncomfotable situations and the uncomfortable political situation we are in. This stuff is easier to find than Nari Ward's stuff, partially because of manufactured controversy that I will not go into. Joke's on you, though. You just made my life somewhat easier. Not that much easier because I still have to repost everything on imgur, which is actually not that bad for rehosting images I find online so they don't vanish into the aether.
This is based on a Beckman painting and depicts people oblivious to the unpleasantness that is about to hit them.
There are twelve paintings of people fighting in elevators. One kid thought the leg looks like a knight in shining armor and once he said that, I couldn't stop seeing that, even though I'm pretty sure it was meant to be the leg of a man in a gray suit.
One kid said it looked like they were playing Twister.
It's kind of like when you hear about things like west nile virus and triple E and you can't stop itching because of that.
When swimming, you are aware of your own breath. From above, she is an island, below the water, her features melt into an aqueous swirl of colors. You can't smoke, cry, and swim at the same time.
She mixes the colors she's going to use before she starts painting.
Piano in the Rain
Punch a Nazi. Speak out against racism and prejudice.
The book The Most Magnificent Thing has a pug.
A passenger noticed my Shakespeare shirt and was going to see Hamlet but wasn't able to see Romeo and Juliet, thought it was going for all summer.
Sometimes my instinct pays off.
Alissa looks a bit like Katie, this means nothing to you, I know, except her chin is pointed and not cleft, and her eyes are dark as onyx. She photographed my drawing of her prematurely and I had her take another one because she needs eyebrows. She is studying biology. Unfortunately, she got off at JFK/UMass and I finished Girl, Interrupted while waiting for my dinner earlier. Which was amazing, by the way. It's called Nua Nom Thok and it's a salad of lettuce, onions, scallions, cilantro, and grilled beef covered in ground roasted rice, in a spicy lime dressing.
I saw a thinkpiece about how the far right isn't a past and this isn't just a dumb Blast From The Past™ that was posted at an inopportune time, it seems to be written in response to the terrorist attack in Charlottesville.
I told Holly that I can see people making excuses or claiming it was a false flag or ignoring it entirely.
I was morbidly curious as to what THE LIBERTY ZONE had to say but thankfully the site has been closed for a few months.
burning question: how exactly are statues more important than human lives?
