at the vag and other pics

1. i watched 'la jetee' by chris marker.

2.

I can't believe this starts in may and I'm here in April

I will have to come back this summer

Vancouver art gallery

i am usually not vengeful

but i really want revenge. someone stealing something of yours, and then pretending not to steal it. when it's obvious, both physically and metaphysically, that it was stolen. and obvious to more than just one person. the only thing i can do is take comfort in the fact that there is karma. maybe one day i will be able to hurt him.

post-colonialist theory

this is the theoretical hook of every serious artist of non-european descent in the western world. the intellectual trinity of post-colonialist theory: 1. edward said 2. homi k. bhabha 3. gayatri spivak. i have to admit, bhabha's theories of hybridity and the ambivalent third space really hit me. it was exactly how i was feeling about my life, and what i felt the meaning was of what was ending up on the canvas.

henri rousseau [aka self-analysisII]

starting so late in life and being untrained, my work will always look naive. with a blind optimism, and sympathy to religion, belief in some sort of noble aspects to man, life and death -- away from cynicism, the unaesthetic and meaninglessness, i will probably never fit into any contemporary art scene. i would just like to continue to paint and have these little hidden away shows. to be seen and not seen. selling work is not really a priority, and becoming any sort of spectacle is very unappealing. the only thing i'm interested in being right now with my art is relevant.

chris marker

"passengers"

i know you want to hide all the time, but that just didn't work out

"zeeny, eclecticism, hybridity. the optimism of those ideas! the certainty on which they rested: of will, of choice! but zeeny mine, life just happens to you: like an accident. No: it happens to you as a result of your condition. Not choice, but - at best - process, and, at worst, shocking, total change. Newness: he had sought a different kind, but this was what he got."

'the morning hours'

in the name of God, beneficent, merciful 1. by the morning hours 2. and by the night when it is stillest 3. your Lord has not forsaken thee, nor does He hate thee 4. and verily the latter portion will be better for thee than the former 5. and verily thy Lord will give unto thee so that thou wilt be content 6. did He not find thee an orphan and protect [thee]? 7. did He not find thee wandering and direct [thee]? 8. did He not find thee destitute and enrich [thee]? 9. therefore, the orphan oppress not 10. the beggar drive not away 11. therefore of the bounty of thy Lord be thy discourse