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31/12/2013

What do you mean it all amounts to nothing?

All the struggle, suffering, anguish? My god, the pain and drama that I have endured this year alone is immense!

And tomorrow, you're just going to start it over? Rename it? 2014? It's not even that different! One digit. Sheeeesh!

So there's no resolution. No reward. No treasure at the end. No prize in the bottom of the box of 2013? Damn!

It's gonna happen again in 2014, I betcha!

I see! I can see what happens. It never ends. Year in year out, same thing. Trials and tribulations. One thing gets worked out and the next pops up. It gets harder and harder. Hotter and hotter. Like that parable of the frog in the water that gradually comes to boil.

I'm feeling kinda suckered here! Enraged. Powerless. Adrift.

It's the last day of the year, we've made it - yeah - but made what? And what for? More of the same ahead? This is not what we expected! Not what was promised! It's a mistake! A scam! We're in the Twilight Zone.

Life is meant to be GOOD!

Happy New Year? What is there to be happy about? Seriously!

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input/output

27/12/2013

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I was lying on my mattress the other night watching a open-hand-size huntsman repeatedly navigate the upper levels of the four walls of my room. He's been around for a week or so now and we've decided on a mutually beneficial 'no provoke', silent, arachnoid/gentlemen's agreement. Still when he saunted up to the roof and crossed over into a space hovering directly above my head, I decided it would be wise to move temporarily to a different spot.

Lying there, I suddenly remembered that I used to read and collect National Lampoon humour magazines in the mid seventies. I used to really enjoy reading them. I don't know what happened to my collection - lost in transit, I suppose. I've lived in and moved out of thirty or forty abodes since then. I now live in a rented room with my computer, an open suitcase and a mattress. Streamlined, you could call it.

Since my teens, I have always been a high input person. Books, comics, magazines, movies, TV series, the net... I like to absorb - concepts, words, visuals, stories. I always try to find stuff that is quality. Stimulating. As a teen it was paperbacks found in the second hand store in Hiroo, Tokyo, by writers like John Fowles, Alister Mclean and James Clavell. Comic titles like 'Challengers of the Unkown', 'Sgt Rock' and 'Swamp Thing'. Then there were mags - National Lampoon, Reader's Digest, Time, Esquire, Details. Mixed in with all this was Japanese game shows, comedies and kickboxing shows.

Around 18, I discovered with great delight the art film, late night double feature cinemas and saw groundbreakers - and lifechangers - like El Topo, Eraserhead, Performance, Clockwork Orange and Nashville.

I also have always loved, sitting and watching people. From Shibuya station in the early days, to nights on the streets in Kings Cross in my twenties (observer, not hooker) to walking through neighbourhoods in the US, South America and South East Asia in my travels. To this day, I spend hours at a time in libraries, wherever I am, several times a week: absorbing. I also love their serenity and solemness.

Point is, it's little wonder my visual art output is voluminous. (3,000 plus artworks in the last 22 months). A lot goes in. A lot comes out. It needs to. I really enjoy making pictures. From nothing to something. A simple magic. Soul soothing.

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particles and whispers

24/12/2013

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The swirl on the top of your head is the universe.
You are looking out to see what is in.
Everything, everything is interconnected.

Particles and whispers
Ions and imagery
Bird calls and river flows
A zephyr, your breath
Emotions, storms
The endless sea
Feet in the sand
Watching, listening
Enveloped by nature
One, one, one....
Forever

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elysian field trip

1/12/2013

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'Where are you heading?"

As in - where is your head taking you? Are you a passenger or the driver? Do you like the road being taken? Is there a destination in mind? Have you got a map?

Ultimately, the place we all end up is the same. So it's not about the final destination. It's about where you go along the way. Some like to plan, others to stumble onto things. You got your harez and your tortii.

But the questions above, I think, are worth asking. Cause if you want to, you can take some control. And it is worth looking up ahead and at least making sure you are heading (in your head) to a place that is worth visiting. If it's a downhill journey - muddy, treacherous, uncomfortable - well, better make a change. If you are happy enough, and enjoying the trip; carry on. There's no hurry.

For me, at the moment, I enjoy make pictures everyday. Along with regular exercise and an ocean immersion, I feel satisfaction. Creating pictures that were not there before. It's a bit like dabbling in magic. And I read today about the brain - how vision is the most powerful of the senses - and stimulates the brain, works it. As a predominately solo traveller, I like to not only look out the window - but to create scenery of my own devising.

Writing can do a similar thing. But it is different. Just as much of a high - deeper, longer waves, though. And it takes a while to come on. And effort. It's more like long distance running. Where as making images is like a exploratory walk through interesting new terrains. What's ahead is uncertain, but through intuition, experience and trust, you usually end up somewhere satisfying, sometimes breathtaking.

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