Gabriel Orozco, My Hands Are My Heart 1991
‘To create My Hands Are My Heart, Orozco squeezed a ball of clay with his hands, forming a heart-shaped object that reveals the process of its making. Instead of a fine art material, Orozco used clay from a brick factory in Mexico. Like many of his early works, this object exhibits a modesty of materials and gesture, reducing the act of sculptural creation to its bare essentials. Two photographs showing Orozco with My Hands Are My Heart emphasize the connection between the object and the artist’s body.’ (MOMA)
McKenna Kemp - A mover and a maker in Brooklyn, NY.
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Maudy - Kalulushi, Zambia
Children and their favorite toys
“The richest children were more possessive. At the beginning, they wouldn’t want me to touch their toys, and I would need more time before they would let me play with them…In poor countries, it was much easier…even if they only had two or three toys, they didn’t really care. In Africa, the kids would mostly play with their friends outside.”
“I think that the entire conversation is wrong. I don’t want anybody to be telling women anything. I don’t want men to be telling me what to wear and how to act, not to drink. And I don’t, honestly, want you to tell me that I needed a gun in order to prevent my rape. In my case, don’t tell me if I’d only had a gun, I wouldn’t have been raped. Don’t put it on me to prevent the rape.”
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Judith with the Head of Holophernes
Cristofano Allori
“I was living in Hitler’s private apartment when his death was announced, midnight of Mayday … Well, alright, he was dead. He’d never really been alive to me until today. He’d been an evil-machine-monster all these years, until I visited the places he made famous, talked to people who knew him, dug into backstairs gossip and ate and slept in his house. He became less fabulous and therefore more terrible, along with a little evidence of his having some almost human habits; like an ape who embarrasses and humbles you with his gestures, mirroring yourself in caricature. “There, but for the Grace of God, walks I.” - Lee Miller
Photo by David E. Scherman - Lee Miller in Hitler’s bath, Hitler’s apartment, Munich, Germany 1945
Read more about the photograph here
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My Plans
DJ Koze feat. Matthew Dear
agricola agricolam agricolae, shanna shank by norbert schoerner for the face, october 1997
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“Nature is, above all, profligate. Don’t believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.”
Annie Dillard
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“The Bather”
Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)
Date: 1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia
Jim Naughten
Susan Worsham
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