| "Neandertals did not paint their caves with the images of animals. But perhaps they had no need to distill life into representations, because its essences were already revealed to their senses. The sight of a running herd was enough to inspire a surging sense of beauty. They had no drums or bone flutes, but they could listen to the booming rhythms of the wind, the earth and each other's heartbeats, and be transported" (James Shreeve) |
| Initially the point of departure for my work has been an explicitly �political� standpoint. I have often dealt with political issues and my practise has been an attempt at intervention in this arena. Theoretically too, I have drawn as much from political sources as artistic ones. Most productively from attempts to combine the two such as Dada and the Situationists. My own aim has been to develop a praxis that reunifies art and politics with the totality of my creative activity into what Raoul Vaniegem termed the�revolution of everyday life�. Of course this attempt at praxis has produced what Marxists would perhaps call a dialectic. To paraphrase a poorly remembered line from a movie; It�s hard to stay angry when there is so much beauty in the world. What could be termed the �revolutionary ecologism� of my work necessarily entails the development of a celebration of the beauty of wild nature, as much as a condemnation of the suicidal tendencies of industrial capitalism that are destroying it. |
| anbeintio 1997 - 2004 |
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