There are other worlds they have not told you of (We wish to speak to you)
Series of watercolors on paper
39cm x 27cm
2018
It isn't hard to see, ooh
The hangups we have today
Said we need to strive for more liberty
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
...and I was thinking of a mountain that was once an ocean.
Wait, what? No.
There are other worlds (they have not told you of)
My dad used to tell me you could see Hybrasil from our house on a fine day. My mom reckoned it was only Mt Brandon.
I read somewhere the last day that there's a moving island made of plastic in the Pacific Ocean. A kind of plastic Hybrasil. Every colour, every shape. Opaque, then translucent. Beautiful and terrible. A monument to our own intemperance and our love of convenience.
Do you think you could go there? Like is there enough to walk on? Mountains and valleys and so on. Ups and downs, peaks and troughs. I could stand and watch the hollow hills expand and contract like a pair of lungs in a Junior Cert science experiment.
The sounds fall in to my mind. Like rustling. Like breathing. The lungs of the world. World of the lungs. A big bag of slippery lungs.
There are other worlds. (They have not told you of)
I've always believed I could see things other people couldn't, ya know? Elements falling in to place. A design. A shape in the chaos of things.
I mean who knows man? What is the diameter of the earth? Why is the earth not a cube? Where are we really?
You don't know right?
I'm just asking questions.
I just want to hear all sides of the story.
Someone's lying to us.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it ón
'Lift Yourself' is a series of 15 or so small watercolour works on paper that draw inspiration from;
the omnipresence of plastic as a material and a symbol, conspiracy theories, the mountainous landscape of northern Việt Nam, consumerism, the weather, the Crystal World and Mount Analogue, environmentalism, and Kanye West.
The hangups we have today
Said we need to strive for more liberty
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
...and I was thinking of a mountain that was once an ocean.
Wait, what? No.
There are other worlds (they have not told you of)
My dad used to tell me you could see Hybrasil from our house on a fine day. My mom reckoned it was only Mt Brandon.
I read somewhere the last day that there's a moving island made of plastic in the Pacific Ocean. A kind of plastic Hybrasil. Every colour, every shape. Opaque, then translucent. Beautiful and terrible. A monument to our own intemperance and our love of convenience.
Do you think you could go there? Like is there enough to walk on? Mountains and valleys and so on. Ups and downs, peaks and troughs. I could stand and watch the hollow hills expand and contract like a pair of lungs in a Junior Cert science experiment.
The sounds fall in to my mind. Like rustling. Like breathing. The lungs of the world. World of the lungs. A big bag of slippery lungs.
There are other worlds. (They have not told you of)
I've always believed I could see things other people couldn't, ya know? Elements falling in to place. A design. A shape in the chaos of things.
I mean who knows man? What is the diameter of the earth? Why is the earth not a cube? Where are we really?
You don't know right?
I'm just asking questions.
I just want to hear all sides of the story.
Someone's lying to us.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it on
Lift yourself up on your feet, let's get it ón
'Lift Yourself' is a series of 15 or so small watercolour works on paper that draw inspiration from;
the omnipresence of plastic as a material and a symbol, conspiracy theories, the mountainous landscape of northern Việt Nam, consumerism, the weather, the Crystal World and Mount Analogue, environmentalism, and Kanye West.
