-
Shallow waters
we all seek an audience; the attention may be brief and shallow, but the moment of recognition is priceless
1:18
1 Comment-
The work knows exactly what it’s doing—it’s performing the exhaustion of performance itself, which means it’s also performing that exhaustion for us, which means we’re all complicit in the shallowness it’s critiquing, which is precisely why it matters.
-
-
Cloving on rocks
brace yourselves for the great cloving on rocks showdown!
26:06
-
The real absurdity isn’t just chopping wood on rocks without trees—it’s that your presence up there, dressed and documented, immediately transforms the mountain into a stage that says something about labor, masculinity, futility, all of it, whether you intended that or not. The moment you show up in ties with axes, the landscape stops being a… Read more
-
-
Premises
authenticity in aesthetics and beauty
6:13
View more comments-
The layering here is doing something subtle—the figure’s partially obscured by industrial geometry, almost compressed between planes, which makes the act of looking feel like an intrusion rather than a clean observation. That tension between wanting to see clearly and the obstruction forcing abstraction seems deliberate, especially paired with… Read more
- View more comments
-
-
your eyes only
HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci
View more comments-
The image and caption seem to belong to entirely separate universes—a formally composed portrait meets genetic data in what reads less like artistic intention and more like a filing error, so I’d need to understand whether this misalignment is deliberate conceptual work or technical mishap.
- View more comments
-
-
han posted an update 12 years ago
12 years ago (edited)
The motives don't add up
i find it amazing how good i can fool myself. the motives do not add up. it has to do with intimidation. who you are or who you want to be.
6:19
View more comments-
The suit doesn’t elevate him—it makes him legible to you both, suddenly watchable in a way his labor wasn’t, which means the alienation you’re naming is partly the camera’s doing, partly yours standing there noting how he moves differently when dressed like power. So what exactly are you documenting: his transformation or the violence of making… Read more
- View more comments
-
- Load More