"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
Georgia O’Keeffe
Mexico City (2023)
San Clemente, USA
Acrylic paint on birchwood panel, 61x91 cm.
The baseball bat you kept for protection leans against the wall. I pick it up , and am momentarily aroused by its weight in my hands. I want to smash things and people. I want to crack heads, and brake limbs. It’s astonishing how close we come every minute of our lives to the possibility of doing violence, and inflicting pain. And yet for some reason, most of the time, we don’t. How strange, this choice not to hurt. All this brutality in the world around us, and yet it’s only a fracture of how much there really could be, if we picked up the bat. There is much be learned from carnage, and even more so, from the lack of it.