first up :: i would like to thank all 1 person for contributing to the bummer mix! i am telepathically giving them an invisible ice cream come. anyone else who wants to help out please do leave a comment! you will be doing me a great favour and you will be loved for it!
on to business ::
fence drawing and other massacres
among other things, i’ve been revisiting this space again and again because i do and it is one of the few places in mtl that i can trick myself into being reminded of home [tho it isn’t really home]
there is a strange disappointment in relation to it, to a large proportion to my work. i feel that one of the main reasons for my making is that it is a coping mechanism for disappointments, loves, unloves, heartbreaks and art school. it is ridiculous, the amount of spoiled self loathing of privilege i carry.
i am not an artist.
one night after a futile attempt at a human relationship i took the sugar skulls i wanted us to have made and wanted to throw them, i wanted to throw them at THEM but they were not there – they were never really there but that is another story. instead i took them to the grave and watched them melt in future rain and fog.
extending REST was absolutely integral; this place is more than i think it is, i am always finding something new. it is always changing i am human and heather and never quite on top of things anyway.
i hadn’t really noticed this path before, and i blatantly did not even see the gate at the top of the hill.
i also worked quite a long way of the fence but i am really not satisfied at all with it and will remove it sometime in the very near future, hopefully tomorrow if life permits it.
hi hand.
one day i will get the hang of it, living, that is. knowing my practice, my abilities without constantly short changing myself.
i would say we all got some insightful criticisms and ideas today, though i should stick to speaking for myself.
i am thinking of writing + posting an homage to elisabeth belliveau because i recently splurged and bought ‘the great hopeful someday’ with my babysitting money [yes, i am 14 – what of it?] and it is my new bible. i’ve read it 3 times since tuesday and it is making me so much more aware of the smallest things in life.
like the finding of a quarter on the street and the action of putting it in an old icing tin that is now my nyc fund [$59.19 and counting!!!!]
like the house on waverly that reminds of michigan in 1979 tho i’ve never been there and i was only born in 86.
like my plan to touch every qat on the island of mtl
and the futility of existence that i am going to feel for the rest of my life because being 23 doesn’t solve anything.
i really thought, when i was younger than 22, that i was going to find ~true love at 22. why 22? well it was my champagne year – and it most certainly was, the most beautifully bittersweet bubbly i’ve ever experienced – without a doubt the best year of my life thus far, and i miss it very dearly. maybe 23 will be getting better soon but nothing falls into place. it is constant effort and rejection and reeffort and i don’t even know what i’m trying to achieve. in any case, i didn’t find it and now i think i am doomed. doom doom doom is what i feel in my chest when i wake up, sighing, entertaining the thought of dropping school. but what for for what? there is no back up plan. i am here because i have no better place to be.
good gourd why divulge so much information? context? i am producing because i have to, like pulling teeth and blood from a stone. i have been emptied. there is nothing left to project[ile vomit] but we go on. like a zombie empire of art without meaning or need or desire.
we went to joliette and the only engaging work of art there was in the children’s studio.
let that be a lesson for you.