Date of Submission

Spring 2013

Academic Program

Music

Project Advisor 1

Bob Bielecki

Project Advisor 2

Ben Coonley

Abstract/Artist's Statement

“Tha cold fold groans, today Nor. Tomoorrow I sigh'd 4 a ride: little pickle gets tha worm to seethe soaking through a wet blouse. Early squirrel to first mince tha mens completely.”

-unknown

Wikipedia defines art as “a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a horizontally positioned basket to score points.” I figured this out in the wee early night of a late morning just a few days before. As I wished and washed my canvases and digital treehouses the storm drifted by, beginning to allow the first few streams of sunday to teach “Art.”

Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines magic as follows, “to spend extravangantly or foolishly.” Is this true? As a charm or spell I can be no difference in the waxing of the tides or a cramped trip across a horse-drawn carriage. “1. A: Devil, B: Demon, C: a person of great wickedness or maliciousness. 2. : a person extremely devoted to a pursuit or study: Fanatic ,3 : ADDICT ,4 : WIZARD ,” as Merriam-Webster's dictionary says on Art. These delicious dirges define a body of anti-seminal, anti-matteral, extra-human proportions. Is it mine own? Answering an unanswered answer with a question of my own.

Screams about portions and different sized bowls, “tha people” stare at Art. Like an “archaic present 2nd singular of BE,” it seems to slip by unregistered, unaccounted for. The gruel grooling wafting into my nostrils slurping drool drooling at the sight of a freshly baked stake. Art is, as the Oxford English dictionary asserts, “a book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning, or that gives equivalent words in a different language.” THIS, i'm not so sure about. As I sleep. “01101001001000000110000101110000011100000111001001101111011000010110001101101000001000000110000101110010011101000010000001100001011100110010000001101001001000000110000101110000011100000111001001101111011000010110001101101000001000000111010001101000011001010010000001100101011011100111010001101001011100100110010101110100011110010010000001101111011001100010000001110100011010000110010100100000011101110110111101110010011011000110010000101110001000000010000001000010011001010110011101100111011010010110111001100111001000000110000101101110011001000010000001110011011000110111001001100101011000010110110101101001011011100110011100100000011000010110111001100100001000000111001101110000011010010111010001110100011010010110111001100111001000000110000101110100001000000111100101101111011101010010111000100000001000000100010001111001011010010110111001100111001000000110000101101110011001000010000001100011011100100111100101101001011011100110011100100000011101110110100101110100011010000010000001100001001000000110011001110010011010010110010101100100001000000110001001110010011000010110100101101110001000000110000101110011001000000100100100100000011101000110010101100001011100100010000001110100011011110010000001101110011011110010000001101111011011100110010100101110001000000101001101101111011000100010000001110011011101000110111101110010011010010110010101110011001000000110111001101111001000000110110001101111011011100110011101100101011100100010000001110010011001010110000101100011011010000010000001101101011110010010000001110011011011110111010101101100001011000010000001110100011010000110010101111001001000000111000001101111011010010110111001110100001000000110010001101001011100100110010101100011011101000110110001111001001000000111010001101111001000000110110101111001001000000110001001101111011001000111100100101110”

I approach art as I approach the entirety of the world. Begging and screaming and spitting at you. Dying and crying with a fried brain as I tear to no one. Who am I to deny a fully grown being that lives inside me? Ripping, screaming as I do, through my unseasoned chest. Magic is to “give a long, loud, piercing cry or cries expressing excitement, great emotion, or pain,” as the OED defines it. The Magic of a wrinkled bed spread, the art of my shoes untied.

CHAPTER 2

“What comes around must have been my toast, for the is not, and no: I WILL not, deign myself or yourself for that matter responsibility to eat, fully unhinged.”

When I picture the long, full, horrible life of a heffer as I chomp into my scrilla sandwhich I get filled with a “longing.” I don't know why, perhaps a “shorting,” which makes as little sense as before. No one nearly needs no neglect. An attention to detail, “a diverse range of human activities and the product of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual...” snip snip snip. Cack cack cack. Through a window is a world unfamiliar to me, I only recognize the glossy reflection of myself in the mirror of my product placement. I'd cry copyright infringement on my own mother if it meant a chance to be seen under neon-light-inspection. I'll throw myself at under you feet so you could trample me into the straight line I never was. Only to fit in a matchbook-sardine tin, order my clothes from “amazon.com,” to put my pants on one leg at a time. Just like mama said.

Modern Moshe Tiberian Mōšéh defined art and magic in one fell swoop, saying, “When I see these instances of art and magic I can't help but think back to the few drips of urine that get in my pants when I forget to shake well enough.” This is not an exact quote.

In conclusion I have nothing to say about art. I don't know what art it. I don't know who you are and I'm not sure which day of the week I've been told to “move on.” Dipping through sanity and in-out of razzled rain snips it suddenly becomes clear. Cars kill more a year than art does, but which is more useful?

In conclusion my guts are spilled on this keyboard, on this digital gallery/wasteland. Tha grass beneath my ass snatches up all my clever one-liners before they can reach this page. In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't even shine, stop, did the telegram really ever fall out of favor?

In conclusion I'd like to give a special thanks to capitalism, for always being there even when it wasn't asked for and making me the slut I am, to gravity for a similar reason, to wikipedia, Sabrett beef, television, all the forests I've never met, the inventor of the sandwhich, sand in general, the color yellow, the number 17, the four leaf clover I dreamt about that one time, Doob Ellington, and all the light sources I've ever turned on or off.

Signed, yours, sincerely, jvne lvng grose

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