Everything is beautiful, it's the fact everything is beautiful that we take most things for granted. It's only when we receive a reminder and a shock, that we realise, that we are able to see, clearly.
Think of everyone in the world, and what odds, what sheer overwhelming chances were stacked against them in order to simply... exist. And then think about what so called great people have done, invented, thought, wondered, prevailed and failed. Stack those chances on top of the miracle of sheer being, what we have then is some staggeringly monumental beauties that were born out of unbelievable circumstances. You may argue that because it COULD happen it WILL happen. Well, that may be true, but it all doesn't happen at once in the same scale nor order.
The first girl I had a crush on was named Natalie, and she made me feel so... nervous. Like I was a fizzy drink that had been shook up too much and was fit to burst at any moment. It was scary, it was terrifying, it was beautiful. To feel something new, to be surprised by yourself just once more is something of overwhelming and incredibly refreshing revelation. To know, not just think, to know that there is so much more than just... you. We're all selfish beings and we're all a little bit narcissistic but thats human nature. Thats how we are born and bred. It's what happens after we're born that starts to really shape the world, and I say that in the sense that every single life on this planet will have an effect. Everything makes a ripple, regardless of its size, it still spreads across the ocean, the sheer vastness of our societies on this tiny little rock. You could live for nothing, you could feel like an utter ghost, a fleeting lost soul, but your life, your life will have been nothing but miraculous. The odds of you being born are huge, then add on the odd's of you being alive, add the fact you're still alive, then... the fact you're reading this... well in mathematics terms... I imagine it's a large number indeed.
I don't believe in luck, nor fate, destiny of anything. I believe, well, I guess i believe, what can be, is what will be, at one time or another. We live in this world, but there are so many different worlds, perhaps even with different you and me's living on them. Alternative universes and parallel worlds. Just imagine that for every choice you made, the choice you DIDN'T make then spawned another world in a different dimension where you made the other choice, and your life leads on from there. Take into account how many different choices you make in one day, then how many choices EVERYONE makes in one day and have done in the past, are doing now, and will do. That's a lot of worlds and a lot of choices made, being made and to be decided.
Sunday 27 March 2011
Friday 25 March 2011
The Stickers
A number of you will be receiving some stickers, and a number of you will be viewing this blog BECAUSE you received these stickers. The stickers being 'THIS IS A MORAL FREE ZONE' sign, in sticker form. These stickers are to be placed at the discretion of whoever may have the sticker(s). All I ask is that you send me photos of where you have stuck the said stickers, so I can begin a collection of images cataloguing where and how people have used the stickers. Everyone will be credited to however much they desire. It is you that will make this project work. So I thank you now and i'll thank you many times to come also. Hopefully I will be sent enough images in order to create an extensive and expansive book and also blog which will be monitored and established by me, but it will be through the participation and interaction of you that will get it going, keep it going, and make it strong.
I do have a limited number of stickers, though I can always obtain more. I'm asking for no money from people to send these stickers out to. All I really want in return is some images documenting how the stickers were used. In this respect I believe i've opened it up to many more people. It iss at my own cost, which i believe is only fair as I am the artist and I'm asking YOU to go out and use the stickers, essentially do at least half the work.... Hopefully you wont be arrested, fined or apprehended trying to stick them where ever you see fit. Not Condoning the use of the sticker in unlawful ways... but I certainly can't and wont stop you. That sort of defeats the intention of the stickers themselves. They are to use to say something about a space and the place they are stuck. Their use and intentional meaning is something you have power over. You can choose to tell me why you stuck them in a certain place or not. Maybe funny, maybe questionable, maybe political. Your Choice. I'm simply supplying the stickers to use how you wish. To say what you want to say. I hope you enjoy the stickers and their usage. I'll certainly enjoy and appreciate any and all the images you send me.
Have fun, take care & remember, Art is yours to say what you want to say.
I do have a limited number of stickers, though I can always obtain more. I'm asking for no money from people to send these stickers out to. All I really want in return is some images documenting how the stickers were used. In this respect I believe i've opened it up to many more people. It iss at my own cost, which i believe is only fair as I am the artist and I'm asking YOU to go out and use the stickers, essentially do at least half the work.... Hopefully you wont be arrested, fined or apprehended trying to stick them where ever you see fit. Not Condoning the use of the sticker in unlawful ways... but I certainly can't and wont stop you. That sort of defeats the intention of the stickers themselves. They are to use to say something about a space and the place they are stuck. Their use and intentional meaning is something you have power over. You can choose to tell me why you stuck them in a certain place or not. Maybe funny, maybe questionable, maybe political. Your Choice. I'm simply supplying the stickers to use how you wish. To say what you want to say. I hope you enjoy the stickers and their usage. I'll certainly enjoy and appreciate any and all the images you send me.
Have fun, take care & remember, Art is yours to say what you want to say.
Sunday 20 March 2011
The Doubt
What if?
Those two words can define your life, they can summarize an entire generation. They can change the world.
It's amazing how many words we speak, how many meanings they can have and just what we will say in order to change things.
Though what is done, is done. Words can't change that but maybe they can shift what is thought to have been done. Alter perceptions and change the history books. Thats the thing with life, we can share it with so many people and have one that is so special to us and that we share are all with, but they will never know the full picture. Perhaps we can't even ever know the full picture of ourselves. Our eyes can be so deceptive. Our opinions so misconstrued. Stories and fables, tall tales and fairytales.
Our lies will slowly consume us, our insecurities will frame us and the deceit will define us.
There is no redemption in our day and age where our horror stories and our acts of terror are portrayed more and more than the greatness of our capabilities as human beings.
The legacies and memories we leave behind will remain, but not for long. Even the lives we lead are infinitesimal in terms of what has, what is and what will be. Not too much of a stretch to compare us to a spec of dust. Even that is quite generous.
This world is full of scary people, frightening what some people do, horrendous what some few do. But something 'the rest' of us fail to realise is, we all have the capacity to do the exact same, and actually even worse.
Lies and deceit seem to shape this world. The Truth seems to just break down and damage the world 'we' have created. Our legacies will be the fables and stories of our lives, constructed and fabricated. Misfortune & Doubt turn this world into a uneasy and very temporary place.
The sense of loss and disorientation in a world built on shaken ground that abides to strict laws that just unshape the world as it is, it's a feeling that transfixes us all at some point, more than others in some. The sense of law and order is a great misdeed to how we COULD live our lives, not saying we should, but then again why not?
There seems to be a serious lacking in living, the world is vastly over populated with our species, just imagine if we were viewed as an infestation? A higher governing power in the universe could put up a big tent around the planet and fumigate us all. They'd have great right to from what we have done to this planet, our great misuse and disrespect for the only home we have.
This ever enhancing and developing that seems to be define the richest of countries deprives them of a unique and treasured ideal, the sense of honor. It is without doubt lost in the society of today and the shaping of the future. We have no respect for ourselves anymore as in such we have lost all hope for everyone around us. The modern man starts to reflect all the hatred and spite in the world and mirrors it onto others and the infection begins. Chivalry, respect, honor, loyalty, worth, they are becoming long forgotten.
The pressures of everyday life today is often too much for many to handle, we are all supposed to make a reason and purpose for ourselves in a time where the big machine should be maintained and lay down your sacrifices for. We're creating something gaudy and empty. Our lives have become a commodity and our individuality has become expendable. Everything is expected and contingency plans in place just should the worse happen. Well now whats wrong with the worst happening? Surely some sense of destruction and threat is good, healthy, it gets you going and keeps you strong. Sheltering away and letting the world spin in its dumb pride is just irresponsible, letting the 'man' dwell in its selfish, glutton filled greed. It showers our every move now days, we want what we can't have, then when we get what we want, we no longer want it no more. Something better, bigger, flashier and smarter emerges. We're taught to love the new and accept with open arms the dreams and words of others, people we don't even know. We're lulled into a state where our defenses are not just lowered, they are annihilated completely and we cannot fight against the hypnotic, suggestiveness of everyday living.
We all feel far too safe.
Pain, a good pose of pain will get the cobwebs dusted and the muscles refreshed.
Anything, everything, needn't be a pursuit of something bigger. A belief in better. A far too common thought is that something will come to us or that fate will bring along something good to us. Well the world is not a good place, the global consensus of what makes the world spin is far too dark a place to imagine. Needless deaths ending even more needless lives. There was a time when every life was a miracle, what changed?
Those two words can define your life, they can summarize an entire generation. They can change the world.
It's amazing how many words we speak, how many meanings they can have and just what we will say in order to change things.
Though what is done, is done. Words can't change that but maybe they can shift what is thought to have been done. Alter perceptions and change the history books. Thats the thing with life, we can share it with so many people and have one that is so special to us and that we share are all with, but they will never know the full picture. Perhaps we can't even ever know the full picture of ourselves. Our eyes can be so deceptive. Our opinions so misconstrued. Stories and fables, tall tales and fairytales.
Our lies will slowly consume us, our insecurities will frame us and the deceit will define us.
There is no redemption in our day and age where our horror stories and our acts of terror are portrayed more and more than the greatness of our capabilities as human beings.
The legacies and memories we leave behind will remain, but not for long. Even the lives we lead are infinitesimal in terms of what has, what is and what will be. Not too much of a stretch to compare us to a spec of dust. Even that is quite generous.
This world is full of scary people, frightening what some people do, horrendous what some few do. But something 'the rest' of us fail to realise is, we all have the capacity to do the exact same, and actually even worse.
Lies and deceit seem to shape this world. The Truth seems to just break down and damage the world 'we' have created. Our legacies will be the fables and stories of our lives, constructed and fabricated. Misfortune & Doubt turn this world into a uneasy and very temporary place.
The sense of loss and disorientation in a world built on shaken ground that abides to strict laws that just unshape the world as it is, it's a feeling that transfixes us all at some point, more than others in some. The sense of law and order is a great misdeed to how we COULD live our lives, not saying we should, but then again why not?
There seems to be a serious lacking in living, the world is vastly over populated with our species, just imagine if we were viewed as an infestation? A higher governing power in the universe could put up a big tent around the planet and fumigate us all. They'd have great right to from what we have done to this planet, our great misuse and disrespect for the only home we have.
This ever enhancing and developing that seems to be define the richest of countries deprives them of a unique and treasured ideal, the sense of honor. It is without doubt lost in the society of today and the shaping of the future. We have no respect for ourselves anymore as in such we have lost all hope for everyone around us. The modern man starts to reflect all the hatred and spite in the world and mirrors it onto others and the infection begins. Chivalry, respect, honor, loyalty, worth, they are becoming long forgotten.
The pressures of everyday life today is often too much for many to handle, we are all supposed to make a reason and purpose for ourselves in a time where the big machine should be maintained and lay down your sacrifices for. We're creating something gaudy and empty. Our lives have become a commodity and our individuality has become expendable. Everything is expected and contingency plans in place just should the worse happen. Well now whats wrong with the worst happening? Surely some sense of destruction and threat is good, healthy, it gets you going and keeps you strong. Sheltering away and letting the world spin in its dumb pride is just irresponsible, letting the 'man' dwell in its selfish, glutton filled greed. It showers our every move now days, we want what we can't have, then when we get what we want, we no longer want it no more. Something better, bigger, flashier and smarter emerges. We're taught to love the new and accept with open arms the dreams and words of others, people we don't even know. We're lulled into a state where our defenses are not just lowered, they are annihilated completely and we cannot fight against the hypnotic, suggestiveness of everyday living.
We all feel far too safe.
Pain, a good pose of pain will get the cobwebs dusted and the muscles refreshed.
Anything, everything, needn't be a pursuit of something bigger. A belief in better. A far too common thought is that something will come to us or that fate will bring along something good to us. Well the world is not a good place, the global consensus of what makes the world spin is far too dark a place to imagine. Needless deaths ending even more needless lives. There was a time when every life was a miracle, what changed?
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