Raven in Green again..

nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emporer remains insane, and every day, is a new strain of slaughter, supply lines are less protected, evil on all sides, eye can smell the death on your flesh--creeping in, trapped within the twisting fingers of fear, and all eye see is ewe, that face, those eyes, burning like leprosy, eye can see u there poisoning the air, prostituing Nationalism, and eye want to attack, to rip out your heart and lay you flat on your back, and vomit a world of agony and truth into your throbbing illness of memory...and hate guides our way, eye long for the icy slap of a belt across my back, for the acceptance of death and blind cave war, the giving sleep of depression, the sweet elucidation of savage meaningless agression, chiseled in the meaty forearms of Mother Jupiter and his slave disciples, in the harem tents--outside, just beyond the edges--eye ride, a cycoptic mare in the fires of imagination. feeding my disease, a river of plagues, eye need something to remind me I'm still sinning that pain is important, that wurdz matter, that healing is possible, that eye am not alone ...in this --guard the houses--triple the watch,--Maidens, dig up your sorcery --sirens, sharpen your rocks..ewe will eat my pain again. whatever you need unite messiah ME

--Wurdz by Otep Shamaya

Me being egotistical and opinionated about art.
October 26, 2001 1:09 pm.

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We watched a film on Minimalism today in Art History. I hate Minimmalism. I finded it very pretentious.

pre·ten·tious (pr-tnshs) adj. Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified. Making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious.
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I HATE when people apply to much logic to art. When people over thinking a piece. I hate people who miticuously plan out every detail and aspect of a piece before starting it.

I am more concerned with the emotional aspect of creating and viewing a piece. I want my paintings to be like and emotion 'bitch-slap'. I want the view to look at them and just feel it instantly, whatever the feeling I'm trying to protray, whether it is a depressing, or angry piece. Even my pieces which I think a great deal about, or plan out in detail are STILL emotionally open to chance.

In fact, along those same lines a girl in my painting class yesterday said during critque that when people say that they don't think when they paint, that "that's all bullshit". And I instantly disagreed with her. I don't think when I paint. No. I open myself up and let the piece tell me what to do. I don't think. That is in fact the only time I don't think, the only time when my head is realitivly empty of loquacious thoughts. My head is clear and focused. Maybe she thinks too much when she paints and that's why her paintings are always shit.

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