Art is impotentti

Monuments under attack is always interesting for a sculptor.

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How and why do they go and how are they replaced. People climbing on top and dragging down picture of a person is a performance in itself, still I wonder the effect and its suddenness, destruction wanted and hate towards the person and the structure made for people usually to stand below, look at and admire, think on achievements there, if there were any. Mostly thinking what and who are we looking at, what are we supposed to see and what not. Because in art it is a tradition not to tell all and silence those who tell inconvenient truths. It is so today, therefore it is important to ask, why do we have art in public spaces and what do we want it to be like? Art being untouchable until it comes alive and wakes the mob up which somehow wakens the statue up: it isn’t immortal and lasting but changing and we learning? What kind of systemic change will happen after this act of tearing down elements of power (historical), these objects that make us clearly feel strongly (nowadays for money spent on), feel more and remember history lessons? What have we learned then? Meaning of public art? Brutality and menace of man? Sure, there is lots of artistically bad art that should be taken down and it is quite newly made and only makes one feel nothing but ’whatever’ or is this what we are given today, dear Lord. We don’t make sculpture as it was done a couple of hundred of years ago as does movies like the Square remind us and that is an issue we should pay attention to as there are things and methods of making to be preserved and learned. Something happened to the quality of public art during the modern man appeared? Yes. Something has also happened to the public space and architecture for which art is a mere filler and to the position of an artist is to be the star who makes something spectacular, supposedly. Artist marks the city. Artist gives his/her name which gives value. Statues before in history and who made them was not that important. Art as a habit to have seems to have impacted art to be just a surface, values there I do not know what do we want art to do other than bring monetary value and to think that solely is a good thing, is weird in terms of art, beauty and value, values and why pursue art as a career.

What happens to the statues pulled down and do they have artistic/historical value or what was their value to begin with and to whom? Sculpting is very much in the centre when monuments are desired for whatever reason in cities. Materials being still stone and metals, lasting and heavy, maybe today plastic. They are parts of centres, squares and parks, buildings like churches, parliament houses, power to remember and honor, that is also their problem: what does a statue do, sculpture say and represent and how do we look at them, do they beautify our environment, make us feel appreciation? Honouring happens in front of statues that are placed in graveyards, they are like tombs themselves for the killed. Mothers and fathers of countries do not appear to be appealing topics for bronze monuments anymore or bronze as a material. Topics chosen mustn’t irritate nor cause scandals. Boring.

The older they are the more they speak of skill and beauty as objects, thought carefully is every detail. Time and effort spent making maybe doesn’t come to mind, even those that commemorate and elevate bad people, which is also quite often the case, when it comes to statues of leaders and moneymen, who have taken part in building the cities we now inhabit. There are statues that are ugly and over-the-top grandiose, which crimes Socialist realism still today commits and makes one think of the position and work of an artist and the relation there between money, power, politics and art, aesthetics and do monuments stand their ground today as valid and important form of making art and why do politicians see art as a tool and artists do it for money for them gracefully? How much size matters and being part of making the city? What matters when public art is situated for citizens? Who matters? What is the relation there between architecture and monuments and why do we consider monuments worthy of having as objects in place? Art being seen as an expensive expenditure makes art less an everyday object and more something to look up to, to be able to make. Public art today seems to fill a void, in a manner of there is a nice empty spot, and here is someone who deserves a monument and artist is chosen via competition or by reputation. Size matters still, maybe even more today than before. There is a huge difference between why and how we build now and why and how things were done before and it is a constant cry for me mostly aesthetically: decisions and thinking do seem out of date, the system of thinking what is art for, why and how is broken and played in a loop of this what art is, this is art, this is how we look at art, this is whom it honours. We do not have time and good things take time to build as does learning the art of sculpting, tradition of it which is long, options there, how to make are limitless. In today’s world sculpting is a separate part of a building, not like it used to be an organic part of making a house, a square etc.

Power, achievement and wealth being the most important showcases attached to sculpture in near history, one does wonder the state of the art today, we probably do think more broadly of why something is done and there can be a whole structure of thought behind, still the outcome is often more flat, as modern tends to be. We do not want the personal there. Also when statues are the first to go, are they the easiest target and what does it tell of, of our impotence and fear of the real scumbags of today? What kinds of reasons there are to build monuments today is an interesting topic. The reasons aren’t as plainly political and narcissistic as they used to be perhaps, but same issues are there at play. Now we try to honour the collective memory, common feelings and vision of goodlooking and with art brighten the places where people move? Unfortunately to brighten places where people live, is not what urban planning often does, (art and urban planning reject each other), not with sculpture as it is city centres where sculpture mostly is situated, although options how to put up a sculpture change a dull environment and are pretty infinite, maybe all it takes is a fountain. I do still like sculpture more than sprayed tags and slogans, slow processes instead of instant and quick.

Keep on pushing to the butthole, maybe your sex will change.

Kuva | | Henna Timanttimetsä
  • AnalLand

Malicious nocturne, young temperature of instantaneous and perhaps total entropy of the universe. Sounding grand, finding it in my lungs.

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The need to come out. Phrase for someone admitting and showing. Coming out, revealing maintaining dignity and when you lose it, fearing shame, thoughts and talk. Brutality. Maintaining, what does it mean, how, a posture. What needs to be maintained and which parts could be discarded as useless. A well-tended body. Keeping up, staying in posture, situation in life against for what would be a better decision, difficult. Is it following tradition, listening to somebody else’s opinion than one’s own, on one’s life, rules, dictations, directions on how to. What is losing dignity? Deliberately, carelessly, why put yourself to disgrace, what will come of it, of not wanting to care about the consequences. to be killed in the most brutal way possible, publicly. I knew you could. I knew the Idea of failing and starting something new or ending up having disastrous after life or having just what one happens to get. Fear of losing face, fear of showing you my face is gone. What is the worst scenario that might happen? To be killed? 

Snowflakes form this way of water drops
at temperatures several degrees below water’s normal freezing point
depressions as ponds and lakes
zero zero Celsius centigrade and below below
water all, is ice infinitesimally small drops
all the corruption in my hand 

2015 sketching a clothing line/Breathing/What does artist wear?

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Stigma vai brandi? Taiteilijuuteen liittyy stigma. Brandi-ajatukseen liittyy tuotteistaminen. Mahdoton yhtälö? Kuka on taiteilija ja mikä on taidetta?

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Kuvataiteilijalle kiinnostava asia myynnin ja uskottavuuden kannalta on, mitä sinusta ajatellaan tekijänä ja ihmisenä. Pitäisikö minusta ajatella jotakin tiettyä? Miten iso taiteilijan tulee olla, jotta hän on uskottava ja mikä muu tekee taiteilijasta uskottavan kuin osaaminen, sopiminen sovittuun kehykseen ja verkoston hyväksyntä? Millaista osaamista taiteilija tarvitsee, muuta kuin myynnin ja markkinoinnin osaamista? Miten poliittisesti asemoidut, mitä ajattelet vähemmistöistä, kun itsekin olet vähemmistöä, miten taiteesi puhuttelee nykyihmistä ja mikä on taiteen/taiteesi tehtävä nykypäivänä? Monumenttien kaatamisen sinänsä ymmärrän, se on hyvin vanhanaikainen tapa tehdä taidetta ja tuoda se kansalaisille, en sensuuria ja poistamista kuitenkaan kannata.

Sukunimeni on nyt taideteos. Se on ovessani, joka laskussa ja virallisessa asiakirjassa, virastossa kun nimeäni huudetaan, hammaslääkärissä ja terveyskeskuksessa: Timanttimetsä! Olen kiinnostunut tietenkin epäuskosta, yllättävyydestä, ennakkoluuloisuudesta ja missä taide on. Itseäni kiinnostaa ihminen taideteoksena, johon ajatukseen monella tapaa ihmiset pyrkivät, ihminen on esitys ja sukunimen vaihdos on pientä, verrattuna moniin muihin muutoksiin ihmiset ovat valmiita synnyttääkseen illuusion esityksestä ja muuttaakseen itsensä. Miten minuun suhtaudutaan taiteilijana ja miten minut otetaan vastaan virallisessa taideskenessä, joka on todella ongelmallinen sen vanhoillisuuden ja sisäänpäin kääntyneisyyden johdosta, skene joka ei kestä kritiikkiä ja pyörii samojen ihmisten toimesta vuosikymmeniä, samoilla metodeilla ja arviointimenetelmillä. Kuinka sellainen voi edes muuttua, kun ei ole kiinnostunut muuttumaan ja tuijottaa samoja mittareita kuin kymmenen vuotta sitten. Älkää puhuko muille edistyksestä. Minulle taiteen paikka on siellä missä ihmiset ovat ja siihen pyrin omassa tekemisessäni. Virallinen ei noteeraa sellaista, koska virallinen on ainoa uskottava tapa tehdä taidetta. Pandemia toi hyvin esille kuinka paikkojen sulkeminen aiheuttaa taiteelle kaiken sulkemisen ja kuinka huonosti taidetta muualla on kuin varatuilla paikoilla. Netti on taiteelle kiinnostava paikka, hämmentävän vähän Suomessa noteerattu tai pidetty minään, koska olemme kiintyneitä virallisten valvojien huomioon.

Mitä patsaiden kaataminen tekee taiteelle, toivon että pelkästään hyvää. Tosin, kaipaan sitä osaamista, joka nuo patsaat on saanut aikaan. Ratsastajapatsaitakaan ei enää tehdä, kun mahtimiehet eivät ratsasta.

You belong to me – Series of women killed by their husbands, 2020

Kuva | | Henna Timanttimetsä

Demon child, persuasion of inner light.

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His w

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It is bass in his voice
reifying the opposition, difference of quality in low and something large.
Foamy chocolate heart of an image, still fingers hateful night, and so on. But yes, it is romantic. Searching for sources of awe even in contempt. I have a constant feeling of guilt for I don’t know what, for that and that. Quiet masochism. Dirty and cheap in between. But it is not me. I’m the receiver of his favor, of he paying attention, making me solid out of these pieces he found and what is me. 

Moon as a triple reflection on a window demonstrated by a street lamp. I go slowly by floating like asleep, as sleep itself, sleeping. Sink my hands into foam, into my hands and his voice, rub it on my face to feel his w. 

I can’t help but feel disgusted by misogyny online, by people who think they are feminists, leftists and on the absolute right and attacking women for talking their minds. The absolute right of all things, when men say who is a woman. Interestingly this has been the case always.

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Woman is this and that according to men, attractive and feminine. Doesn’t do manly things, men’s work, look like a man etc. There are rules and opinions how a woman should be and behave in this world given by women and men, I don’t care about those rules. Act my age? What is that? The most ridiculous thing today is trans-activists hurting women’s careers and lives, when women do not accept their nonsense and say it. Ultra feminine appearance repeats what a woman should do: be pretty and unable to do much (because you can’t anyway). Why do men who think are women follow the stereotype of a woman? Why do men who think are women use group ’intelligence’ to put down and silence women online and offline? Phobia? To scare women has been a strategy from stopping women from doing what they want, I’m not sure..do you know how long? Is woman’s body an object to look at and admire until it fades and it/her can be discarded? You can correct it, please do try correct how women are perceived. You can correct your body to match your inner self, your feelings of yourself and better yet, to match someone whose body you think is desirable. It is about sex and show, about being desirable, beautiful, admired and looked at. That is a profession, to be looked at. It is also very sexist. She is who she is, what is she?

When facts hurt you, offence is guaranteed. I am not sorry for saying what I think, I should be quiet or at least speak the right things, right? Your feelings need to be protected? Is proof of infantilism, I don’t think you are clever at all, simplicity, repetition, looking for the hit show and fucking on a beach..make the world go round, you have made it. That is despair. Repetition as a method and idea in art is minimalism. It represents nothing and attempts at nothing, is nothing but an object in the end. Shrinking an idea of a woman as a human being, shrinking variety and options to match an ideal? I do not accept that at all, having been shrunk to match what I look like, a doll, has been the biggest source of stress and felt fairly unjust in comparison to what I am able. Yes, it is unbelievable, but true, you are judged by your appearance and it has not been good. You aspire to look like a pretty lady? Maybe it is easier for men.

People who repeat overly simplified slogans on and on and think all other people should think it is a good thing to hear and learn, is the very image of the today’s world, childish and uncivilised, image of a declining culture and again minimising the opposing voice. Feelings do not matter when it comes to facts: overriding the factual world is to minimise it, step on it. Hormones do make you, they make you feel, true that. To change reality to look like you, what is that? Is that freedom or denial or an attempt to dictate your fate, dictate what can be made of you artificially and what are you then, matching the natural? When reality is a drag queen show, dream of perverts walking a catwalk being wannabe starlets, men impersonating famous women, is that envy or celebration of femininity? Celebration of envy and male empowerment conquering the feminine? The desire to look like famous people is all over the place, for men and women it is normal to idolise and imitate. That is what children do. Imitation means you do not want to be you, you want to be somebody else. You can’t be you, you are unable to be you. To be yourself is too painful or you haven’t figured yourself up, why is that? We take it so far, that surgeons and doctors of all kinds do profit handsomely. It is a show we live in. Do I have to like this reality show where reality is fixed to the liking of infants and people who really do have problems? No, sure you look fun, but don’t attack in a group and claim manipulating reality is a good thing, you look even more infantile and fascist. A fascist in a dress, finally they have come out from the closet and started to demand their human rights to have silicon tits, fatty asses and vaginas posing a true woman. True? To impersonate women doesn’t mean you are one, human body is more complex than that, female life and body truly is. To think you are a woman when you do not have female body, nor experiences growing up a girl and demand all to accept your claim, delusion, a clear illness part of the world of sexes living as sexes do naturally, changes everything. We are headed to the artificial human and human experience, so the natural is not what to match with and talk about. When you do not blend in to begin with, but you try so hard to belong to the natural world of sexes where you are a freak expressing yourself. To be different is a bad thing, even though the demand and right to be yourself is the echoing chant. Do not lie please. Put a dress on and feel like a natural woman, is sexism and lying doesn’t make it better or look good, it makes you look delusional, deceitful, having something wrong with your head other than with your body, why should that fact make other facts untrue? Why should biology not matter anymore? It clearly does.

Attacking women for thinking for themselves is not feminism. Speaking for your own good and rights only is not feminism. Taking advantage of feminism and leftist ideas to promote your own career and selfish agenda is not feminism nor leftism, it is exploitation, which per se is not leftism. On the left you do not exploit anyone nor put down people who think and do differently from you. You do know democracy and how it works? You are unable to argue and bring evidence in, don’t take part in this fight, because you will lose.