box 1
cabinet box with mixed media & collage
8 x 10 x 2 inches
summer 1997
box 1
cabinet box with mixed media & collage
8 x 10 x 2 inches
summer 1997
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when I got kind of depressed for a while a few years back, my ex-heroin-addict friend told me that I was expecting too much out of life. He said I should lower my expectations and want less and I would be happier. I started reading about karma and hindu and buddhist philosophy to check this out. Well, I think I am still too much a catholic girl deep down in my heart to go full-force on these ideas (even though I don't go to mass) I guess I am just like all those other schmucks with my pick-and-choose a-la-carte religion but it makes me happy for now and at least I think I have some kind of free will. I found a book on theosophy and read it, I kind of agreed with some of the principles in there. But I hear that theosoph meetings are boring as hell, so I never went to any. For now, my search for a higher truth is kind of in slow-motion. This little construction is made out of an IKEA kitchen thing I found in the As-Is section for really cheap. It's better to use stuff you get for free and trashpick, but the pickins' ain't always so good. Inside are little things I picked and chose from various different kinds of philosophies: fortune-telling, ancient gods, modern gods, nature/animal worship, worship of the dead... all kinds of non-Western god-figures are in the box along with some other stuff. I have other views of this I will add as I scan more photos... I will also probably keep adding things to this as they become appropriate |
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