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I hate the beige walls and the reverence and the neatness and the abstract ideas I don’t understand and the stupidity I feel towards all of the paintings stacked next to one another, decontextualised and really these are paintings about nothing—what arethese paintings of? It seems whimsical and twee and I hate that all of these white men could go to the Middle East or to countries in Africa, take from the cultures and steal the light and bring it back to the West and then somehow reinvent what was already there through the filter of the white imagination so that it is now Othered and distanced
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The fact that it is abstract makes me want to rip them from the walls, why do these paintings and the painter and the viewer get to look at an abstract portrayal of a world already abstracted for their convenience and comfort?
Capitalism stokes the illusion the planet’s resources are never-ending or else that things only have value when they are producing and if they are not, then replace them. Plants, business, creativity, sexuality, nature, women, fear, envy, outrage must be in constant supply to sustain a false premise of growth, progress or profit.
Men’s bodies are a part of the workforce their whole lives as they never need breaks for menstruation, maternity or menopause.
The world is built for couples. Even unhappy ones.
it invented the concept of race conferring upon itself—a freak genetic accident—the values of intelligence, advancement, beauty, whereby the lower the level of melanin in the body, the higher your place in the hierarchy, the lighter the skin tone, the closer you are to whiteness therefore the better, more beautiful you are regarded, the more suited to power you are.
If we turn people into symbols and then create a fandom around them, we don’t have to take on those responsibilities ourselves. They become our spokesperson nominated to do this for us so we can carry on living our lives unperturbed.
