Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: (h)aspiration anxiety, alice in wonderland, batgirl, charles manson, dubai, europe ain't my rope to swing on, expat crisis, future gutter status, grizzly bear, jellyfish, meat love, pig, pigs, polaroids, rage against the mondays, skulls, world map
Rage Against the Mondays? Clearly these aren’t going to be daily after all – perhaps when I have more work to procrastinate away from? And mhm Mondays aren’t quite so bad these days to be honest. Everyone has fled Dubai back to school or otherwise already, so this Monday, like most days now involves sleeping and reading on the swing and lots of tea and no stress, which makes a change. I should probably use this time to paint, but meh. I have just one more Monday left in Dubai, after which I’ll be in London for a bit before getting back to NYC. My friends have now dispersed to somewhere off Brick Lane and somewhere below Camden this year, so it should be fun. And interestingly, today’s pictures seem to return to what used to be common themes of pigs, Alice, and meat love. One thing that’s a Monday constant (or rather, Sunday night) is the worrying, and this continues, with the impending doom(s) of graduation and visas. I’m lucky in that with a family member working for an airline, I get free (standby) tickets until I turn 23, which gives me just a couple years left to save up and make use of these. Kinda like what la femme is doing, but hopefully connecting with some really rad groups and collectives along the way. Orhan Pamuk means dying to get to Istanbul, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned, this amazing typographic map below certainly makes dream-planning easier.
Filed under: meat love | Tags: ad.a.m. project, fashion, florent mattei, furniture, jan svankmajer, jana sterbak, meat, meat love, zhang huan
à la Svankmajer and
THE ADAM PROJECT
“The A.D.A.M. Project (A Dead Animal Man) is a sculpture of a human being built entirely from animal parts.The thirteen species included in the finished human being are: chicken, conch, cow, crab, deer, dog, duck, eel, fish, frog, lobster, rabbit, and shark.”
This could be so tight I’m going to try see it soon.
I’m reminded of that Jana Sterbak dress..
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“Vanitas: A flesh dress for an Albino anorectic” (1987) – flank steak, mannequin, salt, thread, colour photograph on paper
And also her “Chair Apollinaire (1996) which is a little disturbingly gorgeous
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And even Zhang Huan, 1/2 (Meat #3) (Meat and Text), 1998, a dress by Florent Mattei
These are so interesting, like the next step in the objectification of women, even literalising the concept of being ‘fresh meat’. It also I’m not sure if the A.D.A.M project is made entirely of roadkill? I suspect PETA’s already been there though.
(nb for the record, I’m vegetarian, though not an ethical one)
castration anxiety too? we are all social obscenities. not to read too much into this, but I love the way it perfectly synthesises the mad objectification of women/ meat market
