[spectre] Exceptionalism

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We are an exceptional model of the human race. We no longer know how to produce food. We
no longer can heal ourselves. We no longer really raise our young. We have forgotten the
names of the stars, fail to notice the phases of the moon. We do not know the plants and
they no longer protect us. We tell ourselves we are the most powerful specimens of our
kind who have ever lived. But when the lights are off we are helpless. We cannot move
without traffic signals. We must attend classes in order to learn by rote numbered steps
toward love or how to breast-feed our baby. We justify anything, anything at all, by the
need to maintain our way of life. And then we go to the doctor and tell the
professionals we have no life. We have a simple test for making decisions: our way of
life, which we cleverly call our standard of living, must not change except to grow yet
more grand. We have a simple reality we live with each and every day: our way of life is
killing us. Call the doctor, honey, Code Blue is blooming in the garden.

Still we could be free. We could walk out the door. We still can walk a little or least
crawl. We can, actually, do anything. Anything at all. Except, as we constantly tell
ourselves, we know better. We tell ourselves that we live in a global village. But then
why do we have no neighbours?

Millennium project: red drawings: 1981-2015

All the "red drawings" are similar but different and slowly evolving. One free exchange
(shipping included) per year if desired.

Various red and colored ink washes, dyes, pigments; photo-polymer palimpsest,
photo-linocuts, engraved photo-linocuts (derived from even earlier drawings: collapsed,
hollowed-out graphic art narratives -- restrained figure re-drawings -- interlocking
parting wakes), multiple block-printed, water-based lino-inks/extenders, gauche,
acrylic, color pencil, stencils on individually inked/painted, collaged, (archival
bookbinding pastes), and mechanically compressed, thin, multi-layered papers.
9.5x12.5" (24x32cm)

Provenance: one big fish
Gallery price: $1500
Rental/exhibit fee: $55/mo.
Reproduction:

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