Whenever I come across something I don't like and I see a chance to change it, I do change it.
Tuesday, November 29
Israel Vibration: Hard Times
If you want something to buy...
You ain't got no money. It's hard to get it.
If you need something to eat....
You got to go to find your way.
Unemployment is rising.
Where there's no employment, it's like you can't find no rent.
And all your friends, they've got nothing to lend.
Violence in the city. The people protest for their rights.
Though their cry seem hopeless, they're still looking for the
best.
Sunday, November 27
It comes straight from my heart. I hope you believe me. I'll be yours. No one likes to be lonely.
Saturday, November 26
Write or I kill you.
Friday, November 25
Two days no clean internet. That sucks. Again and again, when I'm just checking something like I usually do, I have to realise it's not possible. No access. Now it's okay, better.
Thursday, November 24
We should constitute truth only by looking through all possible facets.
Wednesday, November 23
3°C in Basel, 33°C in Banjul. Probably, I live at the wrong place at the moment.
Tuesday, November 22
There is another idea of Thomas Hirschhorn I really appreciate. About panic. Instead of saying: Don't panic, like most people do, think: Panic is the solution. It's not about to find a solution, but to give a problem an appropriate shape. When you don't allow yourself to panic, you just wait and you don't do nothing. You have to create from what is inside yourself.
Monday, November 21
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open. - Bob Marley
Saturday, November 19
Parents are like their children. Yeah, I like that saying.
Friday, November 18
I've attended a marvellous lecture held by artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Wow, I really loved to follow his ideas. Essential for me as an artist is to establish a critical corpus.
Thursday, November 17
Cat and mouse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cat and mouse, often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom dating back to 1675 that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." The "cat" is unable to secure a definitive victory over the "mouse", who despite not being able to defeat the cat, is able to avoid capture. In extreme cases, the idiom may imply that the contest is never-ending. The term is derived from the hunting behavior of domestic cats, which often appear to "play" with prey by releasing it after capture. This behavior is due to an instinctive imperative to ensure that the prey is weak enough to be killed without endangering the cat.
In colloquial usage it has often been generalized (or corrupted) to mean simply that the advantage constantly shifts between the contestants, leading to an impasse or de facto stalemate.
Wednesday, November 16
At the gym I met a friend who I meet there now and then. I explained viscerally about abandoning my artist's workshop soon. Several years ago he shared the place as well, so he could imagine what I was talking about. To give reasons I told about my financial situation and about not having any success. At that he replied succinctly that like van Gogh I probably will become famous when I am dead. Uh, I hate that and it was not the first time somebody told me about my presumably posthumous reputation.
Monday, November 14
I don't have to be everybody's darling - Sea Sheperd
Sunday, November 13
Like last year I've applied for an exhibtion. Like last year I'll be rejected. For sure.
Saturday, November 12
Yeah, I was very disappointed. No help, no understanding, only demand. Like I was born an assistant and never could change my status.
Friday, November 11
People at employment office once told me for a better professional career you should change your place of work every seven years. I hope this idea do help me to accept my decision of giving up my studio. You see I still ponder. Things like is my identity as an artist defined by an artist's studio are going through my head. Let's say when I am not able to work at home I have to look for a new studio. That's it.
Thursday, November 10
I am who I am.
Tuesday, November 8
When I have been cutting ginger to prepare ginger water this morning, it's aromatic smell made me think of our affluent society. Here in Switzerland we can have everything from all over the world. Products on offer are too many. Ten different washing powders, fifteen different tooth pastes and so on. But, what I heard, people fortunately buy less when they find an oversupply, because the decision for one line is made too diffcult. After all, the actual value of the so-called Western world is going down in the eyes of the Non-Western. Something is going to be missing. The desire for that what is not at disposal.
Monday, November 7
HAPPY TOBASKI
Sunday, November 6
A feminist appropriation of misogynist and patriarchal texts
Roxie Drayson in her essay (2010)
In The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter appropriates the writings of Marquis de Sade to further her own feminist project of 'demythologising' hegemonic and essentialist conceptions of female sexuality. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she also considers his pornography to be unique in that he used it to reveal rather than conceal the actuality of sexual relations 'in the context of an unfree society as the expression of pure tyranny'. The source of Carter's interest in Sade is the exposure of the important role that sexuality plays in maintaining the social status quo: 'since he is not a religious man but a political man, he treats the facts of female sexuality not as a moral dilemma but as a political reality'. Like Beauvoir, she views him as a philosopher of freedom who 'urged women to fuck as actively as they were able [...] to fuck their way into history and in doing so change it'.
Carter, Angela, The Sadeian Woman (London: Virago, 1979)
Saturday, November 5
When I used to be your age... I often hear this. Yet the saying doesn't help. It is trying to give time. You still have time to achieve what I achieved. But every individual should find out her or his own goals within a self styled time frame. If competition is needed it is to reveal people's oddities to synthezise personalities and of course not to destroy them.
Friday, November 4
Winter is tiring and taking a lot of energy. SHIT!
Thursday, November 3
More from the success factory:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO...
· Have a more loving relationship with your spouse?
· Have more inner peace?
· Stop over-reacting?
· Reduce conflict in all your relationships?
· Know how to manage your emotions?
· Stop having outbursts?
· Build quality relationships?
· Cope better with stress?
· Be more adaptable?
· Have a better outlook and attitude?
· Think before you speak or act?
· Learn how to be more empathetic?
· Stop jumping to conclusions?
NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
Thank you so much, but I am fine. I don't need an Emotional Intelligence course.
Monday, November 1
Authenticity proved by questions of real origin doesn't appear as the most crucial feature. More significant seems to gear to information and communication concerning the ambition within an individual's or a peer group's attitude.
