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Mysterious Friend · 1h
substance or abstinence?
Mysterious Friend · 2h
have you ever been stung by an insect?
Mysterious Friend · 6d
Do you like amusement parks, and/or any preference of ride type?
Mysterious Friend · 6d
Have you watched a go-kart race in person?
Mysterious Friend · 12d
Thoughts on mike kelley?
On an instinctual level I like the idea of a big orb made of stuffed animals and I'm glad it exists but on an intellectual level I've found I grow more ambivalent toward art that feels like it could never exist outside of the ecosystem of Fine Art. There is much that that I enjoy that exists because of that ecosystem and in response to that ecosystem but, to me there is something about, any number of abstract expressionist paintings, where I could imagine it living through a variety of times and contexts, or a readymade where the essential emotion that provoked its being brought into the context of a museum already is being definitionally Out There In The World, but, it's hard to imagine Stuffed Animal Orb doing either of those things… it gives it a sort of sad pathos that I don't think is intentional. So maybe that means I like it? But not for the normal reasons.
Mysterious Friend · 20d
Do you know the children's book series Meg and Mog? the artwork brought you to mind
Mysterious Friend · 21d
What do you think of/feel about the final sequence in Fox Bunny Funny?
It captures a kind of "queer sadness" or bittersweetness, that is very rare. That it is triumphant and good, that he is able to achieve his desire, but that the society he escapes into is forever marked by and defined against the structures of the brutal society that its members escaped from, in his achievement there is a sort of implicit acknowledgement of the impossibility of, the innocent desire of the thing that initially sets one apart, that one is violently disabused of.
Mysterious Friend · 21d
What do you have to say for yourself?