_annelee at the sfmoma
i was able to find extract myself from my great suction hole known as working for the self/art. yeah, it ironic when you work for someone else you can’t wait for the weekend or the time away from work. but now, anything else that isn’t in name of the all consuming art is a distraction. obviously, i know that there needs to be a balance but i just notice how ironic it is.
so i went to sfmoma with my art gurus the big tj and kc plus some of their older friends. it’s definitely interesting hanging out with the art misfits such as tj and kc. i probably couldn’t really hang out with really arty people that are really connected to the industry. well, it’s cool that we do what we do but i like people that don’t take their art too seriously and that’s what tj and kc are about. we need to express and make a living but there is more to life than art. anyway, got to see andre gruski, that photographer that takes landscapes of people in a a captialist context. i was slightly surprised by what i saw but it’s not exactly my cup of tea. there was an almost photoshopish quality of technical perfection to his photos. certainly i can appreaciate what he’s doing but not something that speaks to me. but then again, there’s not too much art that i’ve seen that i would pay for. shit, i wouldn’t pay for my own work if it was on sell. still, it got me thinking about what seperates the photographers from the artist. and the most straightforward answer i can to was again, intention. there are a lot of great photographers that capture incredible moments but it’s the intention of the body of work that elevate the photograph to the realm of art. the problem is that i’ve always had issues around what constitutes as art because it’s such a loose term. i think my intellectual background has also jaded my perspective towards art and now that i am sit on the fence, i need to become more friendly with the concept. invariably, everything is simply a label for some joe to grasp.
so, the second part of my fine sunday was hanging out with my mentee. He was a bit sick today so we decided to go see the recruit. a slightly surprising entertaining movie with a hottie that reminded me of my lady friend. she had that eastern european tall sexy in one second and cute as hell a second later. that’s a double whammy for sure. anyway, the kid is quite quiet and i am sure he’s wondering what the hell am i suppose to say to this adult that’s paying for my movie that isn’t my dad or brother. they said it would take some time before they trust and open up to you and even the comtfortable silence is all part of that process.
lastly, i felt i should continue my lazy sunday with a bit of more movies after coming home. i caught the tail end of vanilla sky and the premise was pretty advante garde. not really but for some reason it reminded me so much of the buddhist text i’ve been chewing. the basis premise being that it is our mind that creates our reality but there is a ulimate reality in which we can awaken to. as wonderful as the dream/nightmare we create in our own mind, there is lies an undertone of false satisfaction/false fear that is married to that concept. i do realize that i am in one of those mindsets where i place everything i experience to the filter of that mindset.
anyway since blue is the theme of the day, i may as well include this image i took at bimbos a couple of weeks ago. blue works very well with orange so i think it will be part of my trend moving forward.
