| dewy decimal |
2003-09-18 - 6:59 a.m.
The work of Digable Planets-- Pro-choice, socialist, activists in 1991 New York. To stand for ideas unpopular in the black community towards the goal of social revolution on a small scale, in hopes of blazoning thought on a larger. To introduce the ghetto to J.P. Sartre, Albert Camus, and Marx and then drawing lines, concise slivers of sound, ghetto elements rolling through jazz. To make inaccessible classic manifestos relevant to graffitied veneers and boom boxes. To thoughtfulness that is not glib. To thoughtfulness through music and poetry.
"We saw that the insects as a species were by nature, by instinct, a very all for one, one for all, type of community."-D.P.
To Butterfly, Ladybug, and Doodlebug, "a bug till I die."
The art of Alberto Giacometti�the art, not of foresight, but of insight and being. To the strength of the inner self that resounds in paper trails and gaunt figurines, revised lines and tenor glances. To not becoming wiser the older you get, but simply becoming more like yourself.
�If I could make a sculpture or a painting (but I'm not sure I want to) in just the way I'd like to, they would have been made long since (but I am incapable of saying what I want). Oh, I see a marvelous and brilliant painting, but I didn't do it, nobody did it. I don't see my sculpture, I see blackness.�-A.G.
To Don DeLillo, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, The Smiths, Ian Curtis, Vivienne Westwood, Angela Davis, Simone deBeauvoir, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Italo Calvino, John Galliano, John Coltrane, Yukio Mishsima, Francis Bacon, Salman Rushdie and all the other artists that have encouraged thoughtfulness and imagination in my life, something fetal to the core. This is a humble, bitmapped, encrypted Hallmark from the future. thank you, thank you!