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John Cage, William F. Burroughs, André Masson, all artists who favoured chance, accident and the non-linear. Each of these artists in their respective fields of music, literature and visual art made these elements of view and method the bases of their art. I was also introduced at art school to working with the same approach and it became a very important foundation in all that I ever do creatively.
Here we have some of that. Is there meaning? Who knows. The image wasn't created with a theme in mind but the subconscious and the intuitive probably had a hand in the selection of elements that went into this 'random' collage. The viewer 'completes' the piece with whatever comes to their mind.
Created April 29, 2023.
Zoom in for a more immersive experience.
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Music Link: "The Waiting Room" - Genesis, from their 1974 album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Easily the most artistically and musically challenging album the band ever made under the leadership of Peter Gabriel. The album is a long story of the inner transformation, or a kind of pilgrim's progress, of one street urchin named Rael. In this piece, the ceiling of his underground 'prison" ( his own inner state ) collapses down on him and he waits under the rubble for the spectre of death to arrive, his thoughts and feelings ricocheting around in the dark. Here he wonders about the nature of consciousness and what it is that survives death ... and what does not.
But what's really dying in Rael isn't the body, but the pre-formed and propped-up false sense of self we call ego, that daily chatterer that dazzles pure consciousness with it's endless display of distractions and diversions. This 'death' in the story, then, isn't what it appears to be but it is, rather, the end of delusion and a kind of awakening.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24wXJ6e4Ll0
Why choose this piece? Because of it's random, improvised structure which gels 3/4's the way through into a powerful focus.
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Installation by Senegalese artist Abdoulaye Ndoye: antiqued folded pages with drawings and writing in henna and ink, which fit into wooden boxes decorated in ink. Exhibition Dakar - Martigny, Manoir de la Ville de Martigny.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries offering them: vintage postcards , a collage or $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page or follow me on tumblr:
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The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
...to bleed my eyes and see all clearly.
and then think about what will be...is this not logical?
cant connect the dots...it strains my mind that i cant.
answer these questions on my own.
how could i relate to something someone else say...
what point of reference would it provide for me?
It would seem like navigating the deserts with a map of the ocean.
an empty vessel navigating the desert ocean...
Everything seems random and randomness seemed like god!
turns round and round pointing everywhere...
this routine scraping of the skies is taking its toll.
But they say that there is a light at the end...
confusion is mandatory?
Such amazing tiny fragments lost in such weird craziness we are.
when you really think about it, theres nothing more beautiful than god...
and the mirror its holding.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page or follow me on tumblr:
www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-Arsenaux/180288508725296
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msneauxneaux.tumblr.com/
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
3D printed models created with the generous support of Makerbot Industries, as part of my Makerbit artist-in-residence project.
Thanks especially to Colin Butgereit who ran some of these models for me very last-minute.
New print for sale: "Hard-Edge Exploder", 20"x13.5" with 0.5" border (in metric: 50.8 x 34.3 cm with 1.2 cm border). Price: $100 (shipping extra).
Printed on acid-free paper at the Bushwick Print Lab. Made on the occasion of the Automatic Writing show in SF, there are 20 copies with type about that show (see image) and 50 with graphic only.
I'm still in the process of setting up a product page, so for now you'll have to send me an email (marius at mariuswatz dot com) if you're interested. I'll do a proper release next week, but I wanted to give people in San Francisco a chance to buy one while I'm still in town. A limited number will be on sale at the Super Frog Gallery while the show is still up.
One of the magazines I work for got a rather special package in the post this week. It was a red greeting card envelope, stuffed to bursting (and well over the limit for first class postage) with scraps of paper covered in incoherent scrawls. In some cases, the pen very nearly went through the paper. Needless to say, the contents proved to be... different. Uploaded bigger for extra detail fun. This is a small selection of the contents...
Further larks here: www.flickr.com/photos/simon-crubellier/79093015/
“A Culture Full Of Venom”
Fall
Fall
Falling
So far down
Subterranean
Low to the ground
Beneath the ground
A burial mound
Something so inhuman
Beyond death
A relational touch with nature
Stomp down on the black earth
Fertile soil
Animals decompose
Plants breakdown
Flowers wilt
Something so sick just oozes
A flash of light and we reappear
In a new dimensional plane
A new space
Factory floors in Asia
Clothing from Indonesia
Microchips from Korea
A radical state
xUSAx absurdity and perversi0n
Sick po1itical parasitical vultures of death
A culture so full of venom
So hypnotized
Burning chi1dren
Flames lick the black sky
Arrested
Night-time pediatrics
St0len narc0tics
C0ugh syrup, dec0ngestants, and animal tranqui1izers
Here is my fuck1ng ID and insurance card
Satanic medical assistant
A beautiful set of t1ts with
Ruby red lips
Sexua1 pervers1on
Lost video tapes in a storage unit
Travel from person to person
Mind to mind
State to state
Like a vira1 sickness
I wish to remove myself
Right now
I wish to remove myself
#telepathy #esp #dreams #abstraction #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #outsiderart #mixedmedia #experimentalart #videoart #newcinema #independentfilm #pilotepisode #sciencefiction #suspense #supernaturalthriller #natbradley #indiefilm #automaticwriting #cutup
During automatic writing, a person’s hand produces written material although the person is not consciously aware of it happening. This is a type of “dissociation,” the process by which components of one’s identity or mental functioning become disconnected from each other. Another more extreme example of dissociation would be a multiple personality disorder, while a more mundane version would be driving somewhere and afterwards not remembering doing it because you were thinking the whole time.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page or follow me on tumblr:
www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-Arsenaux/180288508725296
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3D printed models created with the generous support of Makerbot Industries, as part of my Makerbit artist-in-residence project.
Thanks especially to Colin Butgereit who ran some of these models for me very last-minute.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page or follow me on tumblr:
www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-Arsenaux/180288508725296
msarsenauxhere.tumblr.com/
msneauxneaux.tumblr.com/
New print for sale: "Hard-Edge Exploder", 20"x13.5" with 0.5" border (in metric: 50.8 x 34.3 cm with 1.2 cm border). Price: $100 (shipping extra).
Printed on acid-free paper at the Bushwick Print Lab. Made on the occasion of the Automatic Writing show in SF, there are 20 copies with type about that show (see image) and 50 with graphic only.
I'm still in the process of setting up a product page, so for now you'll have to send me an email (marius at mariuswatz dot com) if you're interested. I'll do a proper release next week, but I wanted to give people in San Francisco a chance to buy one while I'm still in town. A limited number will be on sale at the Super Frog Gallery while the show is still up.
3D printed models created with the generous support of Makerbot Industries, as part of my Makerbit artist-in-residence project.
Thanks especially to Colin Butgereit who ran some of these models for me very last-minute.
Spiritualist medium, Georgiana Houghton, produced abstract works in the 1860's and 70's. According to Houghton, the production of these astonishing watercolours was guided by various spirits including several Renaissance artists. This one was seen at the Courtauld Gallery exhibition in 2016.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page or follow me on tumblr:
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sliding stabbing lightly and drawing and more with inspiration from the french rock group Noir Desir moving to the rhythm most times and employing various sharpee pens, ball point pens (ruined 3) and one uniball fine tip pen with which i was very careful and good weight sketch paper avoids tearing. Bottom left shows the 9 letters of the alphabet i use which when written cursive and in lower case look the same if held up to a mirror. They are: e, i, l, m, n, o, r, t, w and x. The way I write them but maybe not the way you write them.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.