Ron Ulicny’s solo show of new works opens tomorrow night (Thursday, March 1st) at Spoke Art in San Francisco!
The artist has been working away in the gallery for the last two days reconstructing all his mixed media sculpture, and we’ll have images of all the new work ready soon!
In the meantime, take a look at Ulicny’s “Knife Fight (aichmophobia)” from 2010, learn more about his new work on our Facebook event page here - https://www.facebook.com/events/192863280820471/
He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones “it’s” rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.
He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.
He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.
He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn’t know, he or she who don’t reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.
Let’s try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.
Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo Neruda
Daphne Guinness for Junya Watanabe SHOWstudio: Vision Couture
www.zinkmagazine.com one of my favorite inspirations is this magazine.
photo credits: Herrigan&Herrigan Zink Magazine.
Others: Unknown.
These images are from an absolutely insane shoot Steven Meisel did for Italian Vogue.
That’s Eva Mendes in case you couldn’t tell.
So….I heard I needed a tumbler. This is likely going to be an audio, textual, visual, representation of what goes on in my sick little mind.
photographer: http://www.vivaspinups.com/
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