"the others"

The shock of recognition! In an electric information environment, minority groups can no longer be contained - ignored. Too many people know too much about each other. Our new environment compels commitment and participation. We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

-Marshall McLuhan
                                            

"Immortality is the true nightmare, not death"

- Slavoj Zizek

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Long Live Dead Cow!

   

*locate all the (affixated) words of 'politic' in that and change it to (affixated) 'nasi lemak'.

DEAD 102 Maya Deren

 Maya Deren (& Alexander Hammid)
 'Meshes Of The Afternoon'
 Film, 13.28 minutes
 1943 

It was quite scary at first when I watched Maya Deren's & Alexander Hammid's the first and most magnificent experimental film 'Meshes of the Afternoon' (1943), when there were parts of psychological symbolic images and elements in the film which are similar with some elements in new painting/drawing that I'm working on right now ( and previous same approach body of work)  that took inspiration from totally  different context. Felt 'surprised' by how similar  the visual execution was (I did watch the film few years ago, but didn't really take it seriously or remember anything about it until I watched it again this time - thanks Taya!). Lately, prior to this situation, there were few cases of 'absolute coincidences' that happened in different ways and realisation in term of  my intuitive based visual selection, creative thinking and process, especially when I started allowing myself  opens to few 'doors'. But then i don't  really feel scared anymore as I realise that we all are made from the same element and some frequencies might 'meshes' with each other cross time and space if we really allow it to happen...Don't worry.
When Maya Deren once wrote that this movie is concern on personal individual interior experience and how it reproduce the way in which the subconscious of an individual will develop, interpret and elaborate an apparently simple and casual incident into a critical emotional experience, then I think  I understood how the subconscious work when the underlying concern with less thinking, less aware, less conscious intuitive automatic action will reflects the condition. In this case, by  the outcome of some kind of collective intuition of the  'selection' of visual representation..?

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