Kuukausi: lokakuu 2013

What one is to do with one’s life and how much is it an issue of state?

| Henna Timanttimetsä

To smudge, mess, brake, disturb, move, make noise to be heard. Picture of a burning car, burning flag, people holding images, bankrolls with slogans, tape on someone’s mouth, posters, prints, events, interventions, riots, to throw stones, destroy shops, banks, coffee houses, public spaces, spray cans, tear gas, police wearing riot gear, shields of police, people holding hands in fists, there is the blame, hurt, demand and shout, something has caused a problem too big to tolerate and nothing is changing, the same just goes on and on, people must do something to provoke a change but what.

Since it is not a perfect world of man, we equal as people with weaknesses, with gigantic flaws at least flaws are given gigantic proportions. One flaw is to yearn for power because of power. To hold power, use power, obtain it, throw it, cast a vote. Tradition of democracy, given power. How to make flaws our strength? How to learn to see that we are our flaws, perfection in imperfection to be found. How could there be wisdom found globally so that instead of looking for flaws and trying to erase them we would think them as precious. What kind of flaw is valuable?

| Henna Timanttimetsä

I have an idea of normal, but it is not me. It is outside of me. I’m not sure I understand me sometimes. Am I irrational? There are things that are normal for me to do daily like brushing my teeth twice a day, I go to bed and sleep the night, dream it. 

but then when I go on I step out of the mainstream. I probably don’t want to continue thinking what is mainstream, but I assume it is the main thing.

 

medication, psychotherapy, hospitalization, Who can be cured and who not, what is to cure, how to know what is actually wrong. Are there hopeless cases? How to face someone who is mentally ill? Should I be scared? Mental illnesses are problematic in many ways, difficult to treat, to diagnose, difficult to live with. How can we tell when society is mentally ill?

| Henna Timanttimetsä
It is a very painful experience to be depressed. Stress and constant facing of ill in life make possibility of mental illness higher than for those who live in secure environment. This is my equation and result of it. Levels of stress in life and how one tolerates stress, deal with setbacks indicate clearly how are we doing mentally and we will be doing. Where does the border of ill and healthy go? What kind of behavior is seen as sick and what not? Illness breaks the atmosphere of normal everyday. We see ill since it is part of life, but we like to avoid and separate it from us because we are scared and disgusted. Healthy atmosphere of there is nothing wrong is a bit strange and hygienic. Can there be such a state on social level of hygiene or is there always a factor of wrongness, a crack, better yet must there be some kind of imbalance and sense of danger for us to find happiness? Secure steady life is an ideal for many. We want to avoid being scared and not knowing what will happen next.

Danger of it, danger in living, danger of getting killed or injured. Some people like to defy it, death.

Poured my clay balls on a nearby bench

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Poured my clay balls on a nearby bench

in war.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Revolution is lucrative business. in art. 

This sounds like I don’t believe in making revolution. To change methods of interaction, patterns of thinking and gaining wealth. To change how we gain, what we want to gain, if we gain and what there is to gain. Are we doing things to have it all? Despair is one bottom of the end. Desperate people do anything they can to survive. State of ready to be insane, do hurtful irrational acts, ease the pain to hurt someone else, or get a change to one’s situation by learning to be wiser. Revolution is not a sane situation. Chaos and disorder, why we need that. I claim that what is interesting and tempting revolutionizing anything is the happening, event itself. Radicalism and outlaw qualities appeal. What is forbidden allures, to be against all what is set, letting aggression rule is an easy way. Revolution is an expression.

Censorship as way to do the world and stomping the world to stay the same. It is interesting to analyze cultural scenes since there are people who seriously have power over what we see and use as culture and as art. The power of expertise given status. It is also a world of relations, golden handshakes, hear say, loads of cash and again talk over who is proper and good at the same time.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

It is a common practice of everyday. We do it to ourselves and to others by looks, talk of all kinds of subtle and not so subtle ways of letting know what is good. It is a mind control, behavior control, strategy control. Reasons for control often are not letting upset and hate show, fear, any kind of emotions, sexuality, personality, difference show in order to maintain discipline, order, conformity, hegemony, to maintain power or just to oppress because of having power. It is a forceful tool to be able to censor and make it a mental behavioral state as well. People who censor themselves in fear are easy to control.

Forces of those who wish things to stay the same. And what things are those and who are the forces who have such a wish? State of eternal growth, state of holy image, state of pedestals. To push the envelope is to say of having search for new expression. Expression defined by the one who is expressing, artist who lives expresses, everyone has expression of their own. Who sells the expressed, what is new in this picture of making money? Nothing. Do artists express to make money? and what is expression, and what is art, when does expression become art. It is expecting the unknown to be found, expecting it to be found, expecting the unknown to be. It is a state of trust to express. Then make it a vendible product.

For me pushing the envelope is a pop term. Music world is an interesting scene talking about censoring and expression. Pop artists pushing some envelope of theirs and possibly the establishment’s as far as the record companies allow them to push. To push the envelope against those who actually have power is for a recording artist suicidal end of a career kind of scenario. Someone has put something in the way to be pushed and push push it hard. Usually it is artists themselves who have boundaries to be changed. That is not a surprise. Controversy, scandal, provocation are marketable items nowadays like ever. Controversy is to rub your ass against male crotch and stick your tongue out. Huge is only the amount of press. To use sex for making money is not news. It as such is not incredibly pushing the envelope. To actually stop obeying pop cultural idiosyncrasies would be.