humans
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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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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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Invisibles are Present
Madness ceases to exist, once it reaches numbing proportions. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright
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In Conversation
P., an old friend: IT’S EARTH, WIND & FIRE DAY! me: I experienced all three today! P.: Yikes! Are you ok???? me: the earth is magnificent. They say it was made with abundance of love, and I continue to live it abundantly. The wind helps us move, dive and fly, before and after we walk…
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Words at the Opera
“Humans are humans, cast out by the elements, long ago torn from the roots of the earth” — Ježibaba, a witch, in Rusalka, by Antonin Dvořák, libretto from poet Jaroslav Kvapil
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