Artist Michael Mapes takes his own photographs, and then dissects and composes the pieces into box frames.
Up By The Root
Tiana
Two days ago, an old friend from Seattle, Tiana Montgomery, was murdered. She was shot multiple times by a man whom she had only met once before, after she met him in a parking lot to return a lost cell phone. It’s one thing to think about the fact that people die. People die every day, and this isn’t the first friend that I’ve lost. It’s something that I’ve been able to accept, and I’m a very lucky person in that I’ve never lost anyone very close to me. But murder is different. I can’t even begin to come to grips with the fact that not someone on television or in a movie was shot and murdered, but somebody I knew, that I played soccer with as a kid, that I went to high school with. The man who killed T is currently on the run and I would just like to take this moment to say that you are a coward, and fuck you. You violently took someone away from this world who didn’t deserve to leave, and you deserve every bit of consequence the law can throw at you.
Her senior prom is next weekend. Fuck you.
Rest in peace Tiana
❝ If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools, the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, the holes in it, they… would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it, the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it precious because it was the only one, they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, people would come to behold it, to be healed, to gain knowledge,to know beauty , to wonder how it could be. People would love it, defend it with their lives, because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.” - Joe Miller ❞
Sculptures by Ron Ulicny
1. Knife-Fight-Aichmophobia
2. Spew
3. Fuck You Pablo
4. Nighttime Artborist
That scrabble sculpture is perfect.
