merzbuilds
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joe cool and the best bird ever
Nam June Paik, Family of Robot Monument, 1986
perception isn’t an inherently bad thing. if done honestly, it’s simply called love. to see and to hear you, as you are, not as i want you to be. to listen to what you are saying, to respond to it accordingly, to engage with what you feel. perception is only bad when it’s done one way. but like everything, it should be an exchange. i see you, you see me. we work on understanding each other, together. you will never see someone clearly to begin with. i think sometimes the best thing you can do for someone is admit that you don’t really know anything about them. that you don’t understand them. but it’s the want to understand, the desire to know, truly and honestly know, that’s what makes the love come in.
Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik’s TV Cello wearing TV Glasses, New York, 1971. Photo: Takahiko iimura.
Bodys Isek Kingelez, Bodys TV, 1992, assemblage of cardboard, paper and plastic, 26 x 16 x 9 cm
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“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
— Marc Chagall
another note to self, designed by me.
“Arts and sciences are not cast in a mold, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by repeated handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essais (via philosophybits)
“If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.”
— Kiki Smith (via pinky2002)
