Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, December 6, 2013

Waitin' for the Weekend

3 comments:

Davis said...: This works for me.; December 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Tim said...: It gives me so much pleasure to review this work. Like all contemporary art forms, it may be taken by the onlooker in one of two ways.

On the one hand this piece combines multi-faceted approaches to create a mass appeal that is surely breathtaking in it’s audacity! The use of coloured imagery, interspersed with greyscale rather than mere black and white, lends the piece a truly neo-classical form for the masculine figure, set in a traditional, yet somehow innovative, context. By using video as the primary media, the artist manages to create a fluid presentation that is surely enhanced by the use of an urban soundtrack, that, dare I say it, positively reeks of a tribal ethnicity and which lifts the piece into a truly global work. The quasi-contrapuntal tone, almost picaresque in its subtle simplicity forms a Dada’esque like flow of stimulation that, if I may slip into vernacular humour, is the Dada of them all! The installation’s appearance here, in a provincial American blog, surely cries out against the political and moral impasse of our time, but despite this cloistered, nay, closeted debut, the real triumph of the work is in its use of social media to find it’s voice in our modern wilderness. The strong, broad arms of the macro-net will carry all of us along with this piece to a truly worldwide reception. Bravo, bravo!

On the other hand, Fuck me, Woof!; December 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Russ Manley said...: Tim, after all that fulsome praise - well, for once, I'm speechless with gratitude.

(The lads aren't 'arf bad lookin' are they?); December 7, 2013 at 8:25 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu