The way out is across, in ardor (That Spring when the deer who had been ravaging the field was hit by a car one morning and the farmers came to weed the field and found her in the road, still warm)
All we ever wanted was everything (looting — immediate communization — shares no common ground with the world of the commodity. And yet, it expresses something abyssal within that world: the possibility that everything could be free.)
2022 24”x32” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
Composition is nothing more than the fruits of an unexpected meeting between separate worlds and the promise contained in the becoming commune of that meeting (Tree planters in the snow)
2022 32”x48” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
Hi-Lo Cinémathèque during the George Floyd Rebellion (sites of affection and encounter become a series of sentimental interruptions into the urban continuum, oases dispersed across the metropolis, barricades that are erected against the advancing enemy, waiting for the chance to trigger an offensive against our gradual loss of a world disfigured by economy.)
2022 32”x24” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
To become destructed angels And as destructed open to all activities against the law and financial institutions (the fireflies are waiting)
2021 48” X 60” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on canvas
An attempt to free ourselves from the condition of listener and viewer to which culture and politics have accustomed us (Onyew and Jordan’s duet)
2022 32”x24” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
As I promised you, I keep my legs strong and live upright as the stem of a flower
2022 20”x16” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
We must exist more and heavier // we are learning discipline everyday, Bench pressing, jiu-jitsu training, training for our future study
Steam like Stinging Nettles
Souvenirs in the salon
2022 20”x16” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
“In My Room” by The Beach Boys (A liberation from all speculation And an awareness that metaphysics is a consequence of not feeling very well.)
Construction for the Endless Séance (no exile where we will not hear ‘welcome home’)
Self-portrait after Elin Danielson-Gambogi’s ‘After Breakfast’
2021 16” X 20” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on canvas
All Things Are Dear That Disappear (Yoon, A Joint, Hainanese Chicken)
2020 17” X 15.5” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel
Deep stretching, deep pulling, deep sweating, deep breathing (a feeling that at moments hinted at rivers running backwards)
The only master favorable to us is Lightning who sometimes illuminates us and sometimes cleaves us. (No sympathy to those swimmers who think that they should be the only ones)
Summer Is Not All (the chickens try to eat embroidered butterflies off garments and we follow their cue to pursue our wants, our whims, our hungers)
2020 30” X 24” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel
The warm and hot baths’ insistence on our porosity: confine your measure to the boundary of the sky (water is the only one who knows what has always been)
Nothing is not borrowed & hunger doesn’t compromise together we made this place together we can leave it
Co-regulating in the city without love; “When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities”
Remember you can have what you ask for, ask for everything (free oranges taste sweetest)
2020 30” X 24” acrylic and oil on panel
Where will you find stars? (Wet wood makes smoke)
May the land grow green, May it swallow our mistakes (this year we won’t dig the trenches so deep)
2021 30” X 24” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel
They came to eat the moon again (does anyone feel like cooking this week?)
2021 25” X 25” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel
Amidst the trees (Malik)
2020 20” X 20” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on canvas
In the curtained sun (Lauren, Faye, Tika)
2021 30” X 24” acrylic and colored pencil on stretched dropcloth
No Accidents, No Miracles (Choji Plant)
2020 16” X 20” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel
Yoonhwa, Chanel, and Onyew Outside Videodrome
2019 16” X 20” acrylic and colored pencil on panel
That Summer Feeling
Infinity doesn’t interest me
2020 30” X 40” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on panel
Venus Vessel
2018 30” X 24” acrylic, oil, china marker on canvas
We Return As Often As Leaves, As Numerous As Grass (the second snake we pulled out of the chicken coop when Meg was in town)
2021 16” X 22” acrylic, oil, colored pencil on canvas
Self-portrait with Longevity
May our only struggle once again be the ultimate struggle within our own mind/heart The struggle to open further Open to all humans To all beings To all that is All that can be
Sometimes it feels like it is over and it’s not. Sometimes it feels like it has just begun and it’s over.
Yoon in Spicy-Not-Spicy’s Bedroom
Defend the Forest, Defeat the Police
Snake Seaon
It’s a good idea to have good, working transportation (learn all that you can and share what you learn)
Thunder storm in the land of summer
On the stroll of the stolen life (ripe for the taking)
2022 12”x8” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
Until our most fantastic demands are met, fantasy will be at war with society
Vertical ray of the sun (a head start on Spring)
2022 12”x8” Acrylic and colored pencil on panel