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Oct 03 2012
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Visual Arts

The Porch Swing: Questions

Questions: Take 2

All good things don’t last, Great things on the other hand—that’s what dynasties are made of.

Days slip away into lofty hues of color fashionably bruising the sky into darkness.

The process a natural phenom; epic in proportion—nothing less. Still those of us too busy buzzing hustling bustling buzzing busy bees direct from here to there, point A to point B, from sea to shining sea.

The glory of transition lost in translation, only to become proper mundane.

What’s really going on though? Sometimes I wonder if anyone really knows. To ‘know’ what does that even mean? To hold a specific concept as true, still each experience lived develops into a unique truth specific to the relationship of cause. Unduplicable, yes there is possibility of common perspective, nonetheless truth in its purest is of the upmost subjectivity. In this case, to each ‘is own.

The power of the native rest in the ignorance to the instruction of the settler

Rather we have been objectified under the repulsive claim of colonial ‘freedom’.

Our truth is buried in the subaltern, beneath the weight of violent rage.

Two brothers. Both riddled with proceedings of time and space, of this world and beyond. Death who are you and what do you want? Time…mom, dad what is time? Can you tell me? Can you help me figure this out? Sleep…drift off into a place suspended in the ebb between this world and that unknown. What a place to find yourself, can you imagine? Have you been there before? Time. Space. A rupture in the peace of this present; a break in the logic of rationality. Gone, too far gone. These dark companions, uninvited haunts. Back again. Two brothers. Each waging his own battle. Wrestling with time and grappling with space, swinging axes—chopping away at time and slashing veraciously into space. Questions questions question. Could you help by chance? You, do you have the answer?

What holds your attention ransom and weighs on your psyche?

what lies hidden in the shadows of your mind waiting to ambush your dreams?

What keeps you up at night?

Night folds itself into the peaking of dawn, tucked tight around the edges. Mammy couldn’t have done a better job herself.

O yea, don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers.

Reflection and Response.

Samuel Bostick

@THEREALSHANTS

the LIFESTYLE’s role is to create collective space for active Reflection and Response through the arts. This space is built around dialogue, expression, collaboration, and artistic (ex)change involving international craftspeople and their realities. The Porch Swing series opens up a Reflection and Response residency where we feature a Collective member’s ongoing project through weekly installations.

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Sep 26 2012
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Visual Arts

The Porch Swing: Questions I

Whatup! We hope everybody is doing well and of course les agradezo por all the support and collaboration with the LIFESTYLE. The Porch Swing residency has undergone a shift. After Twenty entries exploring his personal blend of creative writing, Samuel Bostick, the current Porch Swing operator and Reflection and Response resident artist has closed the WORD of the day series and brings us into the future with Questions. This project will seek out an active voice in which Samuel engages the reader in dialogue.  As the artist says himself:

¨(This new series) will be an installment known as Questions where I explore thoughts and processes through an inquisitive observer. ¨ Samuel Bostick

A quick exchange, worlds open for a brief moment.

Curiosity urges the mind to explore the world abound; scanning, examining, digging on the cogs and springs that turn the world—those things that spin the Earth on its head.

The power of youth is the ability to make change. To refresh the traditions of old as in updated formulas. Revolutionary perspectives; the imagination births the world anew. Who shall step forward and put the hammer to the nail?

The same minds that built pyramids and artful dynasties have now been labeled inadequate, as underperformers. Stuffed into classrooms standardized by white walls, scantrons, ridged requirements, stale air and odd smells; this is the arena where today’s scholars are supposed to be raised? Why is some much money put towards wars and incarceration while the next generation is left with the debt of destruction and institutionalization. How is it that a Nation could be so far gone?

Machiavelli’s Prince, Illuminati’s knowledge, wars and rumors of wars; republicans and democrats, asses and floppy eared fucks. Lower interest rates on students loans claimed achievement meanwhile tuition steady rising year after year and classes are cut. What are students paying for?? More Dollars for less. Its cool though we aren’t gone be stopped so easily. On the other side, bold statements suggest 47% of the American population as leeches willfully suckling off the blood and sweat of hard working Upper class. Word? Dear Mr. Politician, As you stuff your pockets with cash and stock away jewelry just remember that is slave money and those are blood diamonds. When will politics ever touch down? Will the system ever break of pressure and resistance or will it all jus settle out one day?

Reflection and Response.

Samuel Bostick

@THEREALSHANTS

the LIFESTYLE’s role is to create collective space for active Reflection and Response through the arts. This space is built around dialogue, expression, collaboration, and artistic (ex)change involving international craftspeople and their realities. The Porch Swing series opens up a Reflection and Response residency where we feature a Collective member’s ongoing project through weekly installations.

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