In the land of human achievement with the pool and the car and the cathode ray tubes and the leds and the landlines and the elevators and the mobiles and the tents and the sounds. @lmyd@cgwillim@ss__a____m@grant_me_temperance@_dan_foley_ what a long good week!
Come see @andfunandfun ’s show “________mental________” at The Front this weekend! The gallery is open from 12-5 on Saturday and Sunday.
__________ mental __________ is my way of processing the events and aftermath of my being hospitalized involuntarily for manic behavior in 2013. For the longest time, I have felt a pressure to hold these facts of my life back, to hold myself back, and through this show, I am beginning to lay down my burden, my mask, my shame, my shy, and let you see me. Let myself feel allowed, accepted and seen.
Artists make things, I have gone through many making cycles, I learned almost two years ago, that i could use “my practice” as we artists love to say, to change my habits, i.e. to change my life. I had a tea room in the gallery, every day for a month i would open it for 90min or two hours and drink tea. Often I was the only attendee, and there were some very sweet visitors too. At the end of the month, I was no longer drinking coffee. So im like huh? I can make my art, which i hold in such high esteem, a way to help myself.
For some reason, this was a revolution for me, I had thought my artist’s job was making outside of myself, making things, making feelings, making thoughts, making others, making the world, i hadn’t really thought “what if i’m making myself” what does my life show of my intentions priorities and passion.
The Stafford Beers’ thing, just assume that what ever a system is producing, that is it’s goal. There is no striving towards goals, there is only arriving where you’ve headed.
So i’m using my art to go into this place in me i’ve kind of kept down in the deep of me, in a shell, hiding. I bring it up and let it go, shine the light, end the hiding. My own personal apocalypse.
as ever
you are encouraged to join me. I love being joined by you.
wel(l...)come(!)
-and fun
Thank you to everyone who came out to our openings last weekend! If you missed, stop by this Saturday and Sunday 12-5 to see our current exhibitions, including “__________ mental __________” by anderson funk.
@andfunandfun
__________ mental __________ is my way of processing the events and aftermath of my being hospitalized involuntarily for manic behavior in 2013. For the longest time, I have felt a pressure to hold these facts of my life back, to hold myself back, and through this show, I am beginning to lay down my burden, my mask, my shame, my shy, and let you see me. Let myself feel allowed, accepted and seen.
Artists make things, I have gone through many making cycles, I learned almost two years ago, that i could use „my practice” as we artists love to say, to change my habits, i.e. to change my life. I had a tea room in the gallery, every day for a month i would open it for 90min or two hours and drink tea. Often I was the only attendee, and there were some very sweet visitors too. At the end of the month, I was no longer drinking coffee. So im like huh? I can make my art, which i hold in such high esteem, a way to help myself.
For some reason, this was a revolution for me, I had thought my artist’s job was making outside of myself, making things, making feelings, making thoughts, making others, making the world, i hadn’t really thought „what if i’m making myself” what does my life show of my intentions priorities and passion.
The Stafford Beers’ thing, just assume that what ever a system is producing, that is it’s goal. There is no striving towards goals, there is only arriving where you’ve headed.
So i’m using my art to go into this place in me i’ve kind of kept down in the deep of me, in a shell, hiding. I bring it up and let it go, shine the light, end the hiding. My own personal apocalypse.
as ever
you are encouraged to join me. I love being joined by you.
wel(l...)come(!)
-and fun
« cling let go » my first book arrived in the mail this week. Come get you a copy at the opening @thefrontnola Saturday 6-10 many thanks and dance to the most high 🙌🏻
__________ mental __________ is my way of processing the events and aftermath of my being hospitalized involuntarily for manic behavior in 2013. For the longest time, I have felt a pressure to hold these facts of my life back, to hold myself back, and through this show, I am beginning to lay down my burden, my mask, my shame, my shy, and let you see me. Let myself feel allowed, accepted and seen.
Artists make things, I have gone through many making cycles, I learned almost two years ago, that i could use « my practice » as we artists love to say, to change my habits, i.e. to change my life. I had a tea room in the gallery, every day for a month i would open it for 90min or two hours and drink tea. Often I was the only attendee, and there were some very sweet visitors too. At the end of the month, I was no longer drinking coffee. So im like huh? I can make my art, which i hold in such high esteem, a way to help myself.
For some reason, this was a revolution for me, I had thought my artist’s job was making outside of myself, making things, making feelings, making thoughts, making others, making the world, i hadn’t really thought « what if i’m making myself » what does my life show of my intentions, priorities and passion.
The Stafford Beers’ thing, just assume that what ever a system is producing, that is it’s goal. There is no striving towards goals, there is only arriving where you’ve headed.
So i’m using my art to go into this place in me i’ve kind of kept down in the deep of me, in a shell, hiding. I for so long felt that if anyone found out I was in the psych ward, my credibility and their trust in me would be compromised. Now i feel differently. As Audre Lorde prays “Black mother goddess… hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away” I bring it up and let it go, shine the light, end the hiding. My own personal apocalypse.
as ever… you are encouraged to join me. I love being joined by you…. wel(l...)come(!) -and fun
I am so bored and exhausted by the internet feeling like this void we are all screaming into. For a limited time only I offer you: AnALoG JoY!!! Simply pick up your phone and call The poetry hotline — write a brief response to the poem you listen to and send it to me either through dm or email : [email protected] along with your mailing address and I will send you a FREE SURPRISE piece of art ! I will then also post them somewhere back into void of internet. Round and round we go! (Full poetry hotline show up at: @thefrontnola / conceived by @andfunandfun & @laura.mattingly.395 who’s bandwagon I’m simply hoping on)
Please join us this Friday June 27th at 7:30 for a Poetry Reading!
The reading will feature poets currently on view in our group show “P O E T r y as you MIGHT” curated by Lark Mattingly and anderson funk!
@andfunandfun
Featuring:
Andy Young, Chris Sullivan, Marcella Singleton, Herbert Kearny, Gina Ferrara, A Scribe Called Quess, Jessica Kinnison, Jonathan Penton, Raina Zelinsky, Shawna Beasley, Dusty Santamaria, anderson funk, and Lark Mattingly
P O E T r y as you MIGHT is an art show filled by poets. What will the poets decide to collect? What will the poets decide to show? What have the poets painted? What have they drawn? The poet is imaginative in unique ways.
The blank walls mimic the blank page, but these poets have more than pens, more than words this time. The poets are here, brace for eloquence, will you ask them about their art?
☎️ Poetry Hotline 504 584 4799 ☎️
