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She’s totally hip street art guerrilla style. /
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At Ulster Folk museum – Cultra This tool was used to roll the steel ring around the outer circumference of a spoked wooden wheel in years past …
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Digital Painting
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One more part in the series of Kira’s dreams, this time featuring the mechanical girl Dew-T. / Her previous appearances were in Come with me Kira / where she seemed to hold the chain enslaving Kira. / and in Unexpected empathy / where she hesitantly tries to console and encourage Kira. / Perhaps she was right to be hesitant, she seemed to have out-lived her usefulness. Was she not mechanical enough? did she neglect her duties? maybe her duties became obsolete, and she with them…Her mechanical mind, unexperienced in human relations, is puzzled – a flower is not enough?
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Acrylic on canvas 42’‘x30’‘ Emily as the angel of death. This has quite a lot of symbolism in it….. here goes… Emily is painted as the angel of death, and represents mortality, and human qualities, her face is looking away in rejection to the almost posthuman factors of modern society, which I have invoked an sense of bio-constructional element to portray this, its melting (i:e- recession), its failing to survive on the illumination from the artificial light emiited by by the illuminati pyramid, which is attempting to ascertain god like qualities (i:e – god, bearer of light, and the creator), because these people live for capitalism, and hold that in higher power than god. The void in the middle which acts as an abyss is the seperation brought from the conflicts between human and capitalist values, hence on side has life, the other industry. Death is turning her head away because she is not needed, as the modern world is slowly killing itself.
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Model – me / Make up – me / Post-production – me / Director – me The idea of this was to put on LOADS of jewelry, gold, silver…..loads, 2 PAIRS of sunglasses, huge bracelets, and to express one of the deadly sins in a modern context. GREED
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US currency, anyone? Yeah…me either.
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The Micro-Universal as the Epitome of the Derridian Ethical
by BlanchotThe impetus behind this reflection was set into motion by BiographyofRed8, who wrote in response to praise of his latest piece, “The Serp…
The impetus behind this reflection was set into motion by BiographyofRed8, who wrote in response to praise of his latest piece, “The Serpents Tongue (a poem hidden within another poem)”: “I think some things are universal in a micro kind of way…” This strikes me as an especially elegant way of expressing what Derrida means by the Undeconstructable, i.e., that which has the quality of being uniquely ethical, and therefore, universal, within the particular circumstances of its arrival.. A short list would be, the gift, friendship, the work of mourning, the responsibility of reading, and justice. Indeed, each of these concepts are manifestations of justice-the very soul of deconstruction, as we will see-as “universal in a micro kind of way”, insofar as they are dependent upon the particular circumstances of their arrival. Each of these categories may be deconstructed if we are not careful to insure that they remain non-self-reflexive, in addition to being recognized as nothing more than a surplus of an impossible possibility. Which is to say, ironically, that each is as deconstructable as any other particular act, precisely because they remain, finally, unfulfilled qua Justice, or the absolute ideal of Justice, which is always a venir, or to come. This is the messianic aspect of Derrida’s work, which is absolutely vital to keep in mind. The messianic, moreover, is that which ultimately allows for the “micro-universal.” Allow me to try to bring this down to earth. least I be accused of being politically irrelevant. Can you imagine an invasion of another country, the beginning of a war, as being and operation of infinite justice? Perhaps you will recall to cabal of fools who actually allowed for the mini-invasion of Afghanistan (“mini” in terms of its absolute failure to attain any goal other than the destruction of an already decimated country.) to be announced under the name “Operation Infinite Justice.” (Allow me a short digression to congratulate that same group of neo-idiots for realizing that it was not in their best interest to call the preemptive invasion of Iraq, “Operation Iraqi Liberation”, thereby cleverly avoiding any misunderstanding that the ensuing acronym would lead to, namely that the invasion had anything to do with “OIL”. Of course, they kind of let the cat out of the bag when, upon reaching Baghdad, the only building that was protected by the US military was the Ministry of Oil, with its invaluable topographical maps of potential drilling sites, while the rest of the city was looted of everything from file cabinets to priceless relics of one of the oldest civilizations on earth.) To return to my point, I had not come near vanquishing my incredulity over such temerity before Robert Segal duly announced that the ensuing outcry, primarily from Muslim leaders, had induced the administration to change the name of its invasion to something else, which strangely slips my mind. The point is that there is no “infinite justice” to be had in this world. Nor would Derrida claim that there may be such a thing in any other possible world, to use a nice Anglo-American philosophical notion, if to indicate something wholly other than philosophers of that stripe would employ it for, Zeus save us. The fact of the matter is that justice is always deferred; it is fundamentally, and all the way to its core a messianic concept. (If I may approximate an example from he whose name I am more and more uncomfortable in having appropriated in a particularly uncreative and unjust moment, “When Jesus shows up at the gates, what is there to do but to ask, “When will you come?”, see Blanchot’s The Writing of the Disaster for this episode and commentary.) One could not rightly claim, for example, that overthrowing Saddam had the effect of establishing a just, legitimate state. Indeed, this is a perfect example of Derrida’s point in “The Force of Law: The Mystical Foundations of Authority” that no legitimate state can be founded upon the ashes of its predecessor, however vile and inhuman. The reason for this is simple. Any authority founded at the expense of an illegitimate, abusive authority will itself be illegitimate having been rooted in an unavoidable violence; and violence always amounts to an annulment of justice. I will risk offending some of you to be sure that Derrida’s point is not misinterpreted-all too often criminally, violently the case-let me be clear. Derrida is not repudiating the notion of justice, nor is he asserting that it is unattainable. Indeed, in the same piece cited above-originally a lecture delivered at The Cordoza School of Law-he scandalously proclaimed, “Deconstruction is justice.” Or, to be more straightforward still, the founding impulse behind Derrida’s entire oeuvre is the search for some “micro-universal” surplus of justice in each particular act, that is, the best that can be hoped for-and this is no small achievement in our times or any other, for that matter—is to increase the sum total of justice in a world in which Total Justice is inconceivable. Thus, to be true to our specters, to give,whether materially or morally, in a way that circumvents the cycle of exchange, to mourn in such a way as to retain the memory of and carry on the legacy of responsibility and friendship of the departed, are all instances of what BiographyofRed8 elaborated as “the universal in a of micro kind of way”, and as such, a perfect way in which to understand the impulse behind the Derridian Ethical, which, as micro-universal, is always a venir.
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