"Language is the first technology, the extension of the body outward toward an articulation, forging, of the world, which is immediately transformed by this act, hence a forgery."
Charles Bernstein, Living Tissue / Dead Ideas, 1984.

JL, 2010
Little House I used to...

[…] in art, which has developed out of the collective consolation-ideology of religion and at whose further limit we find the Romantic artist striving after the complete love-experience, the individuality-conflict is solved in that the ego, seeking at once isolation and union, creates, as it were, a private religion for itself, which not only expresses the collective spirit of the epoch, but produces a new ideology – the artistic – which for the bulk of them takes the place of religion. […] this happens only at the summit of individual “artist’s art,” where there is deification of the genius-concept and an adoration of works of art which is comparable only to the worship of statues of gods, though they already represent mere men. Before this, art is still – particularly in its Classical period – an individual working-out of the forces of which religions are made. These forces then become concentrated in the single creative individual, whereas before they animated a whole community.
Otto Rank. Art and Artist.

Far, far away the sky has no pillar;

Wide-drifting alga has no root.

My single self is like the firefly's spark -

What can i do to repay your love?

Anon.

"New songs from a jade terrace."

For when mankind still "belonged" to nature in a simple way, nobody needed to paint a landscape.
-Christopher Wood.

I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave.
-Lee "Scratch" Perry

JL, 2010.