2014-09-03

Recent drawings

Abdulhalim Radwi (Saudi, 1939-2006), Untitled, 1984. Oil on canvas, 48 x 35 ¾ in.

Healthcare is a human right! End the genocide! Free Palestine!

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Never Want to Hurt Again

Over one hundred years ago, everyone, even the children were killed. Many were scalped, and the scalps were more or less traded for money. I say this not to make a spectacle. Or to pretend that I understand the kind of pain felt. This is to acknowledge a difficult truth, because it is so much worse than my words could ever describe. And then, over a hundred years later, I was born on that land. So I never want to hurt again

Over one hundred years ago, but now also; children, young adults, adults, and elders are being hurt again. In a cycle, that the most violent, most foolish want fixed in place. A Wheel Within a Wheel that they worship as themselves and the evil they do unto others. So I never want to hurt again.

If it could be true, I would wish pleasure and love for you. A simple life, free of distraction, from the terrible world we must participate in. I still wish this for you, although, we both know it cannot be. I hope that if you hurt again, you learn and get better. This goes for me in turn. What flows from our grief; alienation, desperation, deprivation, whatever it is. I hope we feel the sweet relief that we may never hurt again.

Eleni R

Masa-San: ‘Green Love Letter’ (1989) Location: Fujino, Kanagawa, Japan

The figure of yourself (name redacted) appears at the corner of Aesthetics and Nostalgia

So the roulette wheel of impressions disappears behind curtains where on stage, who should near

The stranger to yourself who inhabits your stare above, beneath With teeth like plastic chairs

The figure of yourself (name reviled) desires their gruesome styles and their teeth and perfect hairs

repeat as needed, yourself (name unimportant) will see the curse a message you will not heed

repeat as needed, yourself (arguably? who cares?) will see that this is the only way, to feel

Eleni R

finished this one recently (didn't realize I started this last february haha)

Javier Arizmendi-Kalb (Mexican, b. 1960s), JUNTO AL HUMO, 2022. Oil and oil crayon on canvas, 72 x 60 in.

Limamu Mbaye by Jack Chipper for Numéro Netherlands January 2025

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