Human Condition
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Bread — Evolution and Devolution
The inquisitive mind, the inner vision for growth and development of human kind, the inspirational spirit in all — towards gods or towards nature, and the quest for optimal maintenance of the carnal and the soul, all these have led us to find ways to dissect and compose far beyond the fruits of nature which…
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No Tipping
I feel compelled to reflect upon the mind and soul of a society that reaches the conclusion of preventing tipping. Equally moved am I to reflect on the direction the people will be swayed into as a result. Seeing this young man in his service uniform in Bandung in 2018, I had to have a…
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Mirror
…found a mirror. Confide, I thought, and I did. It’s a fragile concept. Not that glass breaks — and reflections are of denser surface than mirroring glass — but viewing the self in the flesh, not in vain for vanity but in contemplation, does awake an odd sense of seldom auto perception which conveys much…
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License to a Kill
This is a concept perpetuated by those humans who do not recognize that the -ing form in human being is an imposed conjugation which even Shakespeare avoided in his existential question. Religions claim it, cultures implement it. Some individuals may carry but out of cancerous arrogance, forgetting that cancer tends to eat its own. It…
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Joy:
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On the Bed of Liveliness
I lie on the bed of liveliness, sit on it, stand, spring on it, cry, scream and laugh, all for the sake of reaching the incompleteness of life and its concrete fragility.
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Man and Flower
With a work I created for an exhibition at the Galerie Joachim Blüher (Cologne, Germany) in the mid 1990s, the interest for questions on human existence was revived. Blüher invited me to participate in a group exhibition he was preparing on the topic of flowers. My initial reaction was reluctance towards making flowers but I…
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A Good Morning is… that the Sun has not come up for nothing
A good morning is a warm meal for comfort in a hearty plantain purée; a noble joy to the palate and to the soul, reviving the memory of a wonderful Indonesian rain season; accompanied by the glance at a book that spells out who we are, and revitalizes being, beyond what we have believed to…
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Political Correctness
Political correctness is merely an overall, worn as protection during working hours.
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Awe and Fright
It is apparently the impossibility of defining love in its essence in truly encompassing manner, what makes many jump in awe and in fright, when the word is spoken.
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Words on the Screen — maleness
Jim Burns: Why are women emotionally and spiritually so much stronger than men? Stella Gibson: Because the basic human form is female. Maleness is a kind of birth defect. The Fall — BBC Serial-Killer Drama (2013-2016) / DSI Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson), responding to her boss, Asst. Chief Constable Jim Burns (John Lynch).
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Words at the Opera — fear
Siegfried: Is it some skill I need? Tell me! What is this “fearing”? Mime: If you’ve never felt that, you don’t know what fear is. Siegfried: How strange a feeling that must be! “Siegfried”Richard Wagner — music and libretto
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Tree, Animal, Man
Questions continue to arise, propellers being life, love, condition, spirit, digression, the refined material, the immaterial, the concept of perfection, of climax, no end. Is it not true that the tree, the animal, and man, all ought to be majuscules, like god?
Sila Blume 