Kuukausi: syyskuu 2016

Now is gold

Kuva | | Henna Timanttimetsä

To smell is to sense, we feel for something when we smell it.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Art, the corrupt business. Art has no freedom of expression or freedom of speech. It is a playground for the similar-minded jackasses who play with it as they please.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

How is it possible that sexual harassment is not dealt with but those who commit such acts keep on for example as teachers? How is it possible that such people stay as respectable artists who have a valued position within art and they continue to influence the scene? How is it possible totally incompetent people continue to teach art, have power making decisions in art, about art? Is art something that can be taught by just anybody who happens to have a name in art? How is it possible that there is no freedom of speech in art but those who oppose and question practices in use like bad habits are silenced and laughed at? How is it possible that corruption is impossible to get rid off even though there is common understanding that it is harmful to the whole community and it does not further agenda of art itself but agenda of people in power? How is it possible that your origin, gender, age, personal views and opinions effect how you are treated in art? How is it possible that those who make money with art have power in art, those who collect art have a say, politicians have interest in art when it brings tourists and fame? How is it possible that art is a tool for the powerful still and artists accept this because they have no other choice? A scene that is scared to face the severe problems it has as a community, that thinks it is teaching something to the public as something superior, is truly fucked up. To favor institutions by financing their policies and ways of acting is not in the best interest of art, artists or the whole of society.

Art which has to be found and searched for instead of it being there where you are just like that in your everyday whoever you are, there where you live and work, is elitist. Elitism is of course an old lament and to live without crossing art in everyday is normal. If you don’t want to or don’t desire see art, you can easily forget it. My question is what has to be done for art to gain its lost place as organic part of our constructed environment, not as monuments, but as something active and useable, not practical but meaningful?

How many times does a bird’s heart beat in a minute?

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Scum

| Henna Timanttimetsä
There are people of which there are several different kinds of terms and names in use to make those people feel inferior and not worthy of respect as human beings. Scum, trash, mob, riffraff, or simply the poor who somehow waste their lives doing things respectable people do not do. Respectable is an interesting term and how one becomes respectable. Quite often all it takes is a look, a suit, apple computer and network. Respectability in middle class terms does not happen by whoring and doing drugs but you can prostitute yourself and do drugs when you are rich, so what is the difference there other than what money can buy.
Those things, drugs and whoring, are not problems to you, they are entertainment, a leisure activity, dangerous hobbies, a tiny bit of rock n’ roll-lifestyle to experience. To exploit is respectable as long as the one’s that are exploited are faraway, kept a distance away. Poverty is a disgrace like there is something wrong in you and with you, a stain and a stench. Losing everything such as dignity, human worth and hope for better can happen in early age: how to find joy of making in a world that does not honor poverty? There was a time when poverty was respectable and noble. Nowadays it is respectable to mind your own business and build a fence around your wealth. It is respectable to live in a bubble of the good people and wonder what are those people like who vote for Donald Trump. To me definition of scum is the people who live from the work of the poor and pour the disgust and punishment on them, people who disrespect people who are poor, who do not have the wealth you have, people who do nothing to help the poor, people to whom talking about poverty is shameful, people whose main goal in life is to get more rich in any means possible, who gloat how respectable they are and how God is on their side. Scum are the people who think they are exceptional even though they are not even close.
True definition of scum is people who do not see further, who think their wealth make them exceptional, who hold their view of the world the only right one and that they have the right to all the riches of the world, who photograph their fucking bodies, post pictures of themselves on the social media and that is their main interest in this social event called social media. You can be a whore in the truest meaning of the word also when you are rich. Sometimes I think it is the most common occupation there is.