some art projects to consider

let's see, there are lots...

• manufactured evidence find someone in the world that is an unprosecutable "source" of evil (e.g. Jessie Helms,) and manufacture the evidence necessary to put them away. Base the evidence on real events.
  
• conquistadors a story of ants looking for honey
  
• 7 beauties seven related images of hatemongers and a short statement psychoanalizing the resons behind this, delivered in "thier own words" (e.g. "I am afraid you will undo all my machinations by demanding justice")
  
• postal prints devise a secure mailing envelope and an ink and stencil system that lets the sender insert a blank piece of paper into an envelope. The process of mailing the envelope then uses the Postal Systems mail sorting equipment to "print" the image. this way the artist mails nothing, the recipient receives a print, and a government agency, obliviously prints it in the course of doing it's daily "Busy" work.
  
• reactionary work/collaborative work "react" to the work of a fellow artist, (by necessity, one that is also familiar withh your own work) and then pass the plates and reulting prints on to that artist and have them react to your work on those same plates. Rinse, lather, repeat.
  
• aborticide locate labelling and advertising for turn of the century "aborticides" (ie: home remedies for pregnancy) incorporate the language and style of these labels and advertisements in modern work.
  
• daily A6 reaction establish a series of once-a-day works that incorporates or "reacts" to the headlines on a certain page of the newspaper.. (eg: page A6)
  
• primary make three works that address the essence of the three primary colors (one for red, one for yellow, one for blue) without using those colors in those works. (No red in the "red" print, etc)
  

(no subject)

i visited the wolfgang laib exhibit at the henry art gallery today. i was hoping to find inspiration, i had heard that the work was transcendant as temples, religious as rain. it was interesting, no doubt. consisting of tiny piles of pollen extracted carefully by hand from flowers and trees, long grained basmati rice, plates of spun brass and vault like constructions of beeswax and wood. The work smelled wonderful, exotic, of baking and bees. no matter where you went in the museum, the smell pervaded, you could not shake this exhibit simply because you couldn't see it any longer. and now i can't see it or smell it, but it is still sticking with me. persistant.

Laib seemed to work based in funerary practice. pictures of graveyards in italy, burma, and india, were framed and hung on the walls of the stairwell leading out of the exhibit, showing the influences for the work, urging the viewer towards that "ah-ha!" moment. "This is a graveyard!" they are supposd to think, and then all becomes clear. But it isn't as clear cut as all that. the work took little graveyard shapes, tombstones almost, but more... monumentlike, standing in exacting rows like those big stone heads on easter island. but instead of existing to mark passage by honoring the end of life, they celebrated the everyday of life, rice for sustenance, pollen for growth and reproduction, wax for building, making things of yourself. they were more like homestones, placeholders for living souls. little contemplations like zen gardens, designed to make you take notice, and remember all the life around you. all that remains, not all that is gone.