Blog Post 12/03

Finally spent time in the studio painting this past weekend. I found myself reading more and diving into theory. It paid off. I've been chewing on the words flesh and body and the dynamics of the differences in their meanings and circulations. Flesh is made into bodies through the relations it partakes. Friday I found myself wanting to paint bodies stacked on themselves wiggling and moving. First instinct was to use porn as a source material... but I've been looking at magazine collages for so long their wouldn't be enough information. I wanted that excitement of painting a body that has been encoded into visual thing. 

I ordered these books to read over the break: Deleuze and Zizek 
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 
Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences
The Parallax View (Short Circuits)

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