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JohnWolcottt

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Im gonna show myself so much compassion when i get back in the real world. Like it’s ok if you get uncomfortable when ppl talk about sexual shit.

Bby, you were living with family for years who literally prayed over your genitals.

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Eryk Salvaggio - The Age of Noise

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Mire Lee (b. 1988 in Seoul; lives and works between Amsterdam and Seoul)

Untitled (My Pittsburgh Sculpture), 2022

metal, silicone oil, resin, dosing pumps, steel wire ropes, barbed wire, and other mixed media

Commissioned by Carnegie Museum of Art for the 58th Carnegie International

Mire Lee employs more robust sculptural materials such as metal, plaster, and concrete alongside glycerin, silicone, and various types of resin, which are often animated by electric motors and pumps. The artist's works sometimes recall the internal systems of the human body — its organ functions, convulsions, failures, fluids, and excretions as a way of probing the depths and outer limits of human behavior and the psyche.

The centerpiece of Lee's new sculpture is a steel and glass decagonal form that contains flexible, kinetic components turning in a viscous fluid. Here, soft internal elements become entangled with each other and come into contact with hard, unforgiving materials. An extension of the artist's exploration of pain, this commission connects with the machinations set in motion in Lee's prior works that mine a vocabulary of the ugly, neglected, strained, vulnerable, and leaky. In this dark sublime, the artist seeks generative and redemptive lessons. She observes: "I've always seen heart-wrenching things as beautiful…. I do not believe we can eliminate violence or toxicity in its entirety from the world, but we can develop responses other than disgust or withdrawal." Taking one step further, Lee asks how we might come to understand and make something of pain, violence, or injustice that is compounded, knotted up, and which has no single source or cause.

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Yatreda, Strong Hair, 2022.

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God(s) are so demanding and….im just a girl

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Only thing keeping me here still is I don’t hate my family enough to traumatize them.

So much resentment to my mom for birthing me, but not hate.

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Sooooo my family just cought me in a VERY weak moment and made me give my life to Christ and move back in with them….uhhh im actually scared.

Wtf is going on

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Years of pressure and heat can cause the ink in photos to transfer directly onto plastic, a process known as image bleeding.

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