SIZZLE ME SISSEL KARDEL: August 2011

Wandering holograms

Visions from this life or another reflect distort and invert perception. We may want freedom from the known but to fathom freedom is begin to remember. To remember is to grieve, then maybe see.

An exquisite corpse of impressions course through our lives, an art work entity, a ghost in the machine, driving the machine, relatively polite until analyzed. We set up shop in the impression careening into the same pattern.

To evolve is an option. As the tree is bent, so grows the branch. What glories come with pruning. A contortion becoming.

You, the one who has contemplated loss are easy to sit with. Integrated insight is exquisite life. To trust, we must become trustworthy. The inside eye reverses carefully. Where the eye sees out, it looks in.

Like an allergy, we crave what is inside of us. Crave it like a poison puzzle. Wanting to solve and expel. Everything with in us that we do not love will become an enemy to us. A loss in translation can become a shared psychosis, activating. Enactments repeat multi-generationally. Be still, slow down, nothing is real, but everything is potentially more than this.

We long to return to the garden. Where everything was magical and treacherous. To be small and dependent. How many generations of brokenness does there have to be before you ask for help with tenderness. Real adult life can be a garden that you may walk into or away from, a place of freedom, fruitful, loving. The tether pull is an old devotion that keeps us children - basked and suspended in the afterglow of melancholy. Convincing others is a reversed devotion - to ward off deep untold grief, and very oral. All themes are mutations of the same thing, until we give up the ghost. The content is old. Developmentally delayed devotions. To no longer seek paradise past, is to become paradise present. We, guilty, wear our tomb stone around our neck: "Here lies my expectation (see I was right)". Eternally repairing and repeating heartache until death. My expectation dovetails with yours so fluidly, dangerously. WHY do you think it's so exciting to meet and greet another solitude? It's not to become a martyr, but to join and transcend.

If you can partner w a friend on this road, Where you stumble, you will find your treasure.

People aren't motivated to grow w/o the growing pains in love. Confusing love with pain conflates this. Die before you die is to die to the obsession of mastering the past (all by yourself). Remember you are half-blind.

Once blinded, know you will be blind again. In order to trust, become trustworthy. Love is the intention behind the intention. Voices from the museum, recite the script. The readymade knows how to make the neptunian mirage beautiful as it hurts. Surrender, and give yourself thee love you need. The pain to receive, is to grieve, but you must. What you grieve is beyond the content. It is being bound in a body which denies.

We all hide behind something, no matter how noble. The veils and blocks are there for a reason, they don't need to be ripped off- rather dissolved. If not, they will come back or be passed on. The unworked past pushes into the present. Do you really want to be alone inside? Die before you die. Imagine. If cultivating love is the only path to enlightenment, then how many of us are lost. Love is the ultimate loss of control. None of us want to be bound, and yet.... so so bound. Listen. Loosen the tourniquet on your heart. Suck the air of XTC. Be still. Do a headstand, like the fool lets the blood of the heart fill the head. Time IS love and love is what is passing. Everything is passing. Take care of yourself. Make your house you're home before you fly away.

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8.31.2011

FORD SHOW PACKAGE DESIGN : )

http://models.com/oftheminute/?p=33455&page=2
to be continued....
LIKE WATER...
cover and inside box art, design sk xxxxxxx
beautiful collaboration w Visionary, Paul Rowland,
Ford
photography: Sloan Laurtis
Styling: Nicholas Grasa
friends....
i think credits should be in there

8.27.2011

COMRADES I SALUTE YOU

this was not planned

personal photos from my life

but

things change

last week , our dear Iaan died

so here i am revisiting one of the sweetest times in my life

scanning a lot, i'm no where near done... that goes for the tears too...

i knew iaan since 5th grade, (tim too) family friends, all in neighborhood

and he knew all of us.

i don't really know where to begin, in the dayz of my youth...

(back in the 80's, high school r photos below )

well, other than to kick myself this hurricane evening bc i did not scan my brother kaj here

he was with us and considered iaan his big brother.

many an adventure.

It is a time i have forgotten too much of while never letting go of how pure and free it was.

SO IDEAL A TIME, but not with out heart break...We were all so close. There was so much love. The place in the california mountains where we use to go is the source of many of my paintings. I've returned there every year, and i still feel i have to protect it and its golden quartz...

Reconnecting with love to my old homies, and the stories. This is good, good people.

maybe NYC kept me a bit too removed from you all. I always considered myself extremely lucky to be part of such an large imaginative bright wild bunch - in high school no less.

more piks soonish, once i can swim back to the studio or to california or pilfer from you guys, as u have seen i already found a few.

you were my family, my crew, i salute you.

for Iaan, my little bro, beloved friend.

i want to tell so many stories,

Miss you more