“The eye is a menace to clear sight. The laying bare of oneself is obscene. Art begins with the getting rid of nature.” -Ad Reinhardt
This work is an exercise in repression. It is repressing the anchors of habit; it is the forcing down of whim, the parody of real will. The material and the conceptual are the weights that I will use to become strong enough to challenge and cultivate my weakness. Weakness radicalizes conflict: unable to fight on the physical plane, movement becomes internal and subterranean. Although a variety of economic and social processes have commodified most spaces of daily life, making them immune to free artistic intervention, there are still a few spaces within reach, a few which have escaped the ideologies that constrain spatial practice. These are the receptive surfaces for artistic practice, the fields we can claim for experimentation. These are the training spaces of a stronger sight.
My name is Becket Ming Flannery, and I live in Chicago.
