I asked Darsi Alexander for an exhibition at Walker and she's going to do it. Which is very happy outcome and I think people will get an eyeful and it maybe can set things straight about my art . Some art does have a bite, the world is still a very inhospitable place for art too close to truth. David Wojnarwicz's posthumous offense (from a censored video) really shows how hyped up the body politic is to the notion of offense as it seems to get when more Republikans show up in D.C. I really wonder if the political struggle has impacted on education, I'm not saying people are not as smart now-a-days but honestly this Tea Party business is rabid and dangerous like the old No Nothing Party . The solution to the problems of divided government reside in putting the public interests first. The Republikans are really two political parties in one. A right of center party and an ultra Nationalistic Hard Right Tea Party ; they don't see eye to eye. Indeed a little of the old tail wagging the dog seems evident with Tea Party insistence on twice as much budget cutting. Cutting aimed at targets which represent Democratic laws - Health Care Reform First among these and Planned Parenthood is singled out to satisfy the anti-abortion position of the Tea Party and the general tilt against human rights. With that is a background I can't not see my Walker show as anything but a tilt towards free speech and freedom to experiment and the freedom to take a different path in life. You pay dues and sometimes things come to nothing but sometimes you need to be patient and live a little at a time. Be happy for something to eat for friends and for people who have helped you with your art. Culture is people each artist's story is different, but art is at the center of it all. Indeed art is often at the center of our lives from whatever vantage point we take Like the ancient Romans we humans are an artful bunch. Elsewise what's the point of all the striving if we don't possess a reflective moment, a pause in the flow of things where other issues arise issues of justice and beauty entwined. What we say is a commentary on our passage through this strange and familiar universe we inhabit, this broken Eden . Art can do something extraordinary only when seen only completed by the viewer , the viewer is the knot at the end of the string that keeps the art from spilling out into the void. It is as if the preservation of art is in relation to it's public, we don't save the dreck.
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