Do Ho Suh, Karma (2003)
“Do-Ho Suh addresses issues of identity, memory, and relationships. Son of the famous Korean ink-painter Suh Se-Ok, Do-Ho Suh is a leading figure in the transnational avant-garde generation of Korean artists who came of age in the late 1990s, and his work eloquently represents a dual consciousness between East and West.” - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
I just got faceblocked for 24 hours because someone reported two of my pictures. The pictures were my version of the “equality” sign everyone is posting in support of same sex marriage. I wanted to do my part. Silly me.
Apparently stick figure genitalia is pornographic filth. But… wait… I post naked stick figures all the time on this page without consequences. I’m thinking it’s not the stick figure genitalia that was so offensive. I’m thinking it’s the fact that they’re same sex stick figure genitalia. Someone out there doesn’t like homosexual drawings getting married.
Oh well. Lesson learned. I’ll stop posting subversive propaganda about that disgusting little thing called love.
I guess I’ll stick with tasteful jokes about rape and murder.
Hugleikur Dagsson.
Fuck Art, Let’s Dance and Fuck Dancing, Let’s Fuck by Harland Miller
Writer and artist Harland Miller explores the relationship between words and images and the process of producing meaning in his paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works. Interested in canonical authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway, Mr. Miller pointedly combines text and images to comment on the frequent disconnect between representation and reality. For one series of paintings (select work from such, above), he transformed canvases into satirical Penguin book covers, inventing keenly witty titles, such as If the Phone Don’t Ring - It’s Me and Too Cool to Die, to send up classical literary motifs.
The (often torturous) process of writing itself is the subject of another series, in which Mr. Miller covers vintage typewriters with splashes of paint, giving the works titles like Writing is easy - all you do is feed in a sheet of white A4 paper and stare at it till your forehead bleeds [here].
(via jonyorkblog)
