"For all mankind" is a series of large scale poems that can be seen from above, anywhere, anytime, through programs such as Google Earth. The first in the series screams: BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND I NEED TO BE LOVED.
The poem answers an unknown question. All of my work is based on my interest in creating curiosity rather than dictating thought, and in positioning the viewer as an active reader.
Part art installation, part enquiry into our collective unconscious, the large poem is a kind of theater of dissent, valuing expression over perfection, vitality over finish, the unknown over the known, the individual over society and the inner over the outer.
"For all mankind" can be understood as “sublimated” sorrow on the part of the artist, and in turn, in its reception, on the part of the spectator. The verb sublimation is from the Latin word sublimare, meaning “raised to a higher status.” In art, sublimation refers to the psychological processes of transformation, in which common experiences are transformed into something noble. As Maria Popova writes in her review of philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong’s new book "Art as Therapy", "One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is teach us how to suffer more successfully."
The image is a fake. A mock up on a Parisian rooftop, positioned above the celebrated Le Grand Rex cinema, next to Rue de la Lune, in the 9th.
"For all mankind" is a series of large scale poems that can be seen from above, anywhere, anytime, through programs such as Google Earth. The first in the series screams: BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND I NEED TO BE LOVED.
The poem answers an unknown question. All of my work is based on my interest in creating curiosity rather than dictating thought, and in positioning the viewer as an active reader.
Part art installation, part enquiry into our collective unconscious, the large poem is a kind of theater of dissent, valuing expression over perfection, vitality over finish, the unknown over the known, the individual over society and the inner over the outer.
"For all mankind" can be understood as “sublimated” sorrow on the part of the artist, and in turn, in its reception, on the part of the spectator. The verb sublimation is from the Latin word sublimare, meaning “raised to a higher status.” In art, sublimation refers to the psychological processes of transformation, in which common experiences are transformed into something noble. As Maria Popova writes in her review of philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong’s new book "Art as Therapy", "One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is teach us how to suffer more successfully."
The image is a fake. A mock up on a Parisian rooftop, positioned above the celebrated Le Grand Rex cinema, next to Rue de la Lune, in the 9th.