the most any one can expunge from the olde nuclear family scenario…
i thought of lady gaga upon seeing this - the contrast of extreme sartorial sports (i.e. a steak suit) and the obligatory jaunt down to the local stores with family and friends in tow).
this means nowt to these whores…
but
1: IT IS A LOCATION
2: MY CAMERA HAS FROZEN
3: I DO DECLARE THAT ONE CANNOT PROGRESS SHOULD ONE HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT THE MASSES - I.E. ALL IS THE BEST IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE… ETC YAWNS…
- p.s. 4: women are beautiful, no matter what is said.. yes!
pt 1 the mad man welcomes post-modernism only to feel the abuse of his age.
pt 2 a mad man sets off for the office with his angst in tow
pt 3.
a mad man dons his heart to the world.
burning the nazi ensign. i wondered if putin is a distant relation of lenin’s?
still; their aura has been transferred to the good old u.s. of a. and vice versa - the new values of capitalism are there to exploit the new steppes of old.
don’t forget, brothers, you liquidated your own capitalists to bring in western capitalist dogma.
be it on yer own head.
STEP LAND WHITE STEP LAND… BEAT THE WHITE RUSSIANS WITH A RED WEDGE… THE RED ARMY IS STRONGEST… ETC… BESIDES; THE LIBERTARIAN (A WORD BEST NOT UTTERED LEST YOU SHOULD RUIN ITS PURITY) CAUSE RUNS CONCURRENT WITH MY OWN…
i have found nothing iconoclastic… well; nothing shocking about the iconoclasm… that supposedly resides upon the blogsite.
tis a shame. perhaps my feeble attempts at photography will be somewhat shocking in their despicable nature - in the fact that they are shite photographs - refer to
jpsutcliffe.wordpress.com
jonnywingnut.wordpress.com
notveryhip.tumblr.com
other than go and piss on a church or torch said church… pissing on the pope or the pope pissing on his numerous lovers… i don’t see where i was meant to be going with this collection of thoughts and images… i have a grasp of the unnerving and shocking… but i was never shocking. it was laughable to hear me attempt to be shocking. imagine the numerous female lovers i could have had if i’d realised that they had found my rants amusing and worthy of taking to bed… cool…
though i have framed the image i created for a final print - the image based on the spanish revolution - how the spanish revolutionaries, the republicans of catalonia and granada, of old and new castille, were let down by the powers that be - who, in turn, allowed a fascist government to come to power - whilst the country was looted by both the soviet union and the west… the supposed gold reserves of catalonia still haven’t been returned… stalin, churchill, hitler look on with baited breath… our own fuhrer in waiting: griffin is another establishment figure, fed by the oxbridge system that brought us derek and clive, the rancid wit of clive anderson etc…
never trust a politician (that lesson has been learnt time and time again)…
besides… laughter precedes fascism, no?
the image isn’t particularly shocking… but… it is in keeping with the political edge of the early dadaists (and their non-politics of art bruitism/brutism - whether loud untrammelled noise for music’s sake or loud and (un)engaging imagery of collage and montage.
as i am coming to the end of my iconoclastic brief. i have decided to whittle the prints i was going to hand in down to three prints instead of the maximum requirement asked of me (i.e. 5 prints). this image takes into consideration a vast array of sentiments and ideas - themes i am interested in: religious conviction, hypocrisy, perversion of fundamental ideals etc…. i have also added my own love of subversive literature - the impact of an image can be but fleeting, whereas words, the written word, has a lasting effect, a more deep rooted and insidious gnawing away of beliefs and a more challenging aesthetic. here we have a dustbin, my own image, which is representative of religion per se. this was an image i took in my first year brief - to represent spirituality (the representatives, the moral and human representatives not willing to come to the studio for a photosession). giotto’s christ on the cross is a beautiful image - religion being nothing more than to serve the whims of art - religion is total theatre - the elaborate spectacle of a mass or the less-is-more austere interactions of the sparse e.g. quaker meeting house. i took a quote of de sade and added it to the image in the guise of a quote from the new testament (as from the book of matthew)… as christianity is somewhat sadistic (folk being more shocked by a perversion of their mores and collective ethics than the fact that there is a man - a symbol of worship? - nailed to a tree - is this not shocking enough for them?), i have decided to mock the concrete and literal truth that some christians still believe - that they are imbibing the actual blood of christ - wine and partaking of his flesh - wafer. foodstuffs are commercial concerns - christ is a multi-million pound industry (this fact not being lost on the early church fathers). in sum: christ (the pathetic, abused symbol of sanity and salvation) is nothing more than an item of ridicule - whether that be from those who literally dislike christianity or (unknowingly) by those who actually claim to worship him.
N.B WITH MOST OF MY ICONOCLASTIC OFFERINGS I HAVE TENDED TO WORK FROM THE ILLUSTRATIVE SIDE OF THINGS. ALL THE IMAGES I HAVE CREATED ARE BASED ON AN INITIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF MINE - THEY ARE WORKED SO’S THE ORIGINAL IMAGE WILL BE DISCERNABLE OR WILL BE A TOTAL BASTARDIZATION OF THE BASIC PRINT.
I AM NOW ATTEMPTING TO WHITTLE MY WORK DOWN TO ACCCEPTABLE PRINTS FOR MARKING.
I HAVE PROBABLY CHOSEN THE INCORRECT PICTURES TO HAND IN.
THIS IMAGE HAS ONLY SLIGHTLY BEEN MANIPULATED, IN THE SENSE THAT I HAVE ADDED THE BLOOD, DRIPPING FROM THE CROSS AND DOCTORED THE SHADOW CAST BY THE CRUCIFIX THE VIRGIN IS HOLDING - WHICH, IF YOU LOOK, HAS BECOME A SWASTIKA (THIS BEING THE MOST SUBTLE OF MY IMAGES).
THIS HAS BEEN A MOST INTERESTING ASSIGNMENT. THOUGH I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN MORE TIME TO ADAPT AND MODIFY MY IDEAS. ICONOCLASM IS A VERY TIME CONSUMING SUBJECT.
ARTISTS SUCH AS KENNARD AND HEARTFIELD ARE WORTHY OF NOTE. THEY ARE THE TWO MAIN PROTAGONISTS OF THIS ARTISTIC MEDIUM (PHOTOMONTAGE) WHO HAVE ANYTHING (WORTHY) TO IMPART.
IMAGES SHOULD SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. IF I HAVE TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THEN IT DEFEATS THE POINT OF THE IMAGE BEING CREATED.
