Geometry of Hunger

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Perpetual War

The economy of the modern world seems to demand a perpetual war, somehwere else. Anywhere other than where the bombs are made. A perpetual sacrifice of innocent people, because there aren’t enough soldiers. The population is 8 billion, and growing, 62 million die every year anyway, naturally. The country of 40 million at war becomes insignificant. Until its their country at war.

M-16

Something

All journalists need to be there, maybe that should be the next resolution at the UN. Hopefully this will add to the conversations rather than shut them down.

World War One

My grandfather was gassed with chlorine and mustard gas in the trenches of WW1, and passed at the age of 42. No thanks, no medal from the cocksuckers who deceived him and the other teenagers, but a demand to keep working for the king. None of these boys volunteered, they were lied to by the powerful. They still are, right now as I speak. Your children are being deceived by the powerful. Kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers telling you, the youth, what you owe for your freedom, to them! Another generation to burn for the sake of the economy, security, faith? I never met my grand father, I learned this from my dad, and uncles, aunts and my grandmother. All from Glasgow, Scotland. All of whom lived through WW2, or I wouldn’t be here. So I believe them.

Bombs

From one painting called “Homs” I painted in 2012. Now this could be anywhere, at any time. We fictionalize terror, romanticize the horror and believe that it wasn’t that bad. Then do the same thing again and again, because it is good for the economy, which nobody ever says of course.

‘Homs’, 18″ X 24″, acrylic on canvas, 2011.

Broken Symmetry (continua…)

Broken Symmetry

A test for the background using photoshop 7.

All the colours are in there. I may need some new brushes, and clean water.

Five years now this painting has sat right there in my studio. I think the building is starting to lean over to the left. It may be time to move.

Cease and Desist

‘Misery’, 30″ X 40″, oil on canvas. 1994.

It is painted wet in wet oil with a large pallette knife and brush. Its a never ending issue, I think it was famine in Somalia when I painted this, its always the children that suffer the most and did the least to deserve any pain, nobody does. But we seem unable to stop, every eleven years or so, enough time for the 11 year old orphan to become hardened to the universe and seek revenge.

I wonder if the sunspot activity has anything to do with this, or just that we are still greedy apes fighting over the banana pile. A scientist might know.

Misery before the gate to Heaven, waiting for an explanation.

And then there were none.

The Rules of War

There are no rules.

There are no civilians. They voted for the enemy, they are now enemy.

If the enemy hides behind a baby, the baby becomes a legitimate target.

The primary role of the soldier is to create new enemies to defend you from. Otherwise they would not be needed.

‘They started it!’, always say this first….

‘Metroplolicide, Blood on the Streets’,

Greedy, is what you are. Its always about the economy, oil and the paranoia of losing it all. You shot the baby. That’s the end of any civilization.

Reblog now sucks. Where is my formatting???

The First Rule of War

Broken Symmetry

My favourite conundrum.

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Continuing to continue…

The pattern to increase entropy, is on the table…

‘Broken Symmetry’, 60″ X 60″ acrylic on canvas, continua…

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Broken Symmetry with Insanity Peppers.

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I was weeding my garden plot when I noticed this high pitched screaming coming from the border of the twelve garden plots that were occupied with other gardeners. I wandered over to have a look, my garden neighbor warned me, he said don’t touch those, those are the infamous Peruvian Insanity Peppers, they scream like that, they are ‘ornamental’. So I picked one and ate it, chomping down on the screaming little pepper with enthusiasm. It tasted at first like a delicious little red pepper, soon thereafter it tasted like fire. It was too late, I had already swallowed the thing. It was excruciatingly hot. But I survived by eating the raspberries that were all over the place, then a handful of dill seeds, also growing everywhere. So I picked as many as I could and brought them home with me for experiments. I placed one whole pepper, about 1…

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Bedlam : The Art of Graham Houston

Hunger

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‘Hunger’, 72″ X 120″, oil on canvas.

A very large painting, this painting has been in one other smallish gallery that still had a wall big enough. It sat close to the public window, and people did not like it at all. What do I mean by this enormous mountain of skin and starvation and greed, how dare I say this about YOU!!! The window was spat on at least 30 times by human pieces of shit, you know, the majority of you. The gallery owner kep it up for a few days but that was not a good sign, so we pulled it out, I took it off the stretcher, and rolled it up, that was 1997. It has stayed rolled up since then, except for this brief appearance in my video below, called ‘Painting a Picture’. This was after the major breakdown and seizure but before I had…

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Hunger II

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‘Hunger II’, 36″ X 60″,oil on canvas, 1993.

The scale is always a problem. Works like this and larger really need wealthy people with a house and walls big enough to look somewhat balanced. And they need to be this size to have the effect I want. A large field of pthalo blue can be quite chilling physically when you stand in front of this. Perhaps its just the idea of a very large starving child.

Its the second of along series of images I thought of as icons to represent the conditions of our times. This piece has only been seen at Bedlam Gallery in 1994. It is somewhat difficult to find a gallery that will show these at all.

If you read this, I am pretty sure I was not accepted by the Cambridge Library Gallery show about poverty, a bit to loud and direct for them.

These…

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Hunger III

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‘Hunger III’, 36″ X 60″, oil on canvas, 1993. $25,000.00 U.S.

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The brochure from the gallery

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Order

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This is me continuing to work on entropy, broken symmetry, for some reason it never ends.

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