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The author or the artist praised by the papers observes that his work has been understood: a miserable lining to a coat of public utility
Some learned journalists see it as an art for babies

I have recorded fairly accurately Progress, Law, Morals, and all the other magnificent qualities that various very intelligent people have discussed in so many books in order, finally, to say that even so everyone has danced according to his own personal boomboom, and that he's right about his boomboom

People think they can explain rationally, by means of thought, what they write. But it's very relative. Thought is a fine thing for philosophy, but it's relative There is no ultimate Truth.

Do people really think that, by the meticulous subtlety of logic, they have demonstrated the truth and established the accuracy of their opinions? By sticking labels on to things, the battle of the philosophers was let loose (money-grubbing, mean and meticulous weights and measures)I hate slimy objectivity, the science that considers that everything is always in order.

The artist protests:Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.I have no right to drag others in my wake, I'm not compelling anyone to follow me, because everyone makes his art in his own way, Do we make art in order to earn money and keep the dear bourgeoisie happy?

I destroy the drawers of the brain, and those of social organisation: Being governed by morals and logic has made it impossible for us to be anything other than impassive towards policemen - the cause of slavery - putrid rats . Morality infuses chocolate into every man's veins. This task is not ordained by a supernatural force, but by a trust of ideas?merchants and academic monopolists.

I am against systems, the most acceptable system is on principle to have none.On the one hand there is a world tottering in its flight, linked to the resounding tinkle of the infernal gamut; on the other hand, there are: the new men. Uncouth, galloping, riding astride on hiccups. People who join us keep their freedom. We don't accept any theories.

Every man must shout: there is great destructive, negative work to be done. To sweep, to clean. The cleanliness of the individual materialises after we've gone through folly, the aggressive, complete folly of a world left in the hands of bandits who have demolished and destroyed the centuries. With neither aim nor plan, without organisation: uncontrollable folly, decomposition.

I assure you: there is no beginning, and we are not afraid; we aren't sentimental. We are like a raging wind that rips up the clothes of clouds and prayers, we are preparing the great spectacle of disaster, conflagration and decomposition. Preparing to put an end to mourning, and to replace tears by sirens spreading from one continent to another. Clarions of intense joy, bereft of that poisonous sadness.

After the carnage we are left with the hope of a purified humanity. out of a need for independence, out of mistrust for the community.to reinstate the fantasy of every individual.to fight for and against thought, all this can suddenly infernally propel us into the mystery of daily bread and the lilies of the economic field.

Every product of disgust that is capable of becoming a negation of the family is dada; protest with the fists of one's whole being in destructive action: DADA; acquaintance with all the means hitherto rejected by the sexual prudishness of easy compromise and good manners: DADA ; abolition of logic, dance of those who are incapable of creation: DADA;Liberty: DADA DADA DADA ; - the roar of contorted pains, the interweaving of contraries and of all contradictions, freaks and irrelevancies: LIFE.

Tristan Tzara, 1918 Manifesto.

MY IMAGES

The camera used on all work shown is an epson perfection 1240u. Yes, All of it.

nb. actually it died. :( so its no longer true. but the principle is still the same. sigh.



The images you see in my photos section, are mostly personal drawings from my sketchbook, and also some pieces from larger projects. Feel free to contact me if you like what you see. I'm more than happy to do commissions.



My specialties...or obsessions perhaps... include pen and ink and black and white art. Flickr has made my media a political issue. My art has become a political program.


Steve Jones, one of my drawing teachers, compared my art to "die bruecke". Vince Mariani compared it to Emilio Greco, Gaston Lachaise and Elie Nadelman. Michael Mogavero mentioned Piranesi and Tim Rollins' KOS.









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