Stand up for yourself

The constant search for acceptance ends at some point. It ends when there is nothing else received but disapproval, contempt, sadness and disappointment. Fundamental question is what is there to give? What do we give each other? It is a moment of complete realization of randomness, selfishness, something to gain and coincidence. What is good, what is ill, which one to choose and why. Only thing one can do is not to fail oneself. It is that I am my best friend and the only person to take care of me. This person who is me knows what I can do. So why seek any approval when there is none to be found. Everything is for sale but me. Something is finished at that point when I stand up for myself, when need to be loved by someone else does not guide me and what I do. End of being on mercy of anyone. It is to accept randomness and irrationality of life, human mind, emotions and lunacy of our deeds, but also understanding that I can make a difference. Those things I cannot control stay there, if I can’t control anything it is a dead-end. What I decide to think and do still has meaning. Do I wish to do good or do I wish to do ill and how random those choices are. How much do our emotions guide what we do is important to take into consideration. Humans are by nature active in making and by seeing what we have accomplished we can appreciate ourselves. Where does narcissism begin and where does it end?

 

My hand and a window ad.

CTRL

The issues that are being controlled firstly are sexuality, body image and creative mind. Enjoyment and lust defined and put to shame, maybe it is scare. This goes especially for women. Female is essentially a threat. She is vulgar. Her sexuality and expressing it threaten the order of straight world, traditions, religions and state. We live to enjoy products and services, to feel good inside a frame. We have to work in order to embrace ourselves as tools, our achievements and as members of a society, society is to provide entertainment for us, it is a way to take care of us. Make us feel part of. We live to have fun, to be entertained, but we must see the effort to afford the entertainment, we must know it is not for free, enjoyment of life. It has to be earned.  To be allowed to form ourselves, evolve and form our daily functions and selves, deeds, identities, form them as they may be ’not fitting’, society will be formed as a byproduct to be our image. We live in controlling society, society controls us to become of certain kind and we control each other, favor people that are similar to us, please us, we make society a controlling society and ourselves control freaks.

Funfair

 

 

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Obsession!

Yömaja/Shelter, bambukaihdin ja muste/bambu window shade, ink, 2006

installation against the wall

Insects, 2009