saturday an art day

so it's saturday and i woke up feeling stuck. i started the day by cleaning my floors in the main room of my apt and then practicing yoga at home. i've been getting up at 6.45am and practicing yoga at an open studio in the mornings for about three weeks now and my days have seen a great improvement. but today not so much. not sure why. this morning's practice led me to feel really inside my body, given this container, this place for my existence. i really felt inside myself. i love little yoga revelations / connections.

still feeling a bit stuck, i went about my day's plans. it's crazy i get burdened by decision making yet it's amazing that i can have so many options. but at the moment it all feels a little out of control with the contrasting priorities of money, time and labor of love, art. i just want to make art but i have to make money and it's frustrating just scraping by. so i went to the farmer's market then ran into a friend and he joined me for coffee, a nice distraction from my indecision.

once i got to my studio, i felt a bit better and engaged in my artist practice, shoot some video, read more of "do it" on video, and write. then i headed over to basekamp for a talk with ashley hunt and jenna loyd in conjunction with the exhibition an atlas and now i'm working on my resume. pretty rich day if you ask me. maybe i'm finally unstuck!

and on that note, here's an image of ashley's map. while jenna focused on the hope within the piece, i kept getting stuck on words like "social death". i learned some new concepts, like PIC - prison industrial complex, bare life/sovereign power (agamben) and the idea of ourselves as bodies in space, bodies as commodity and in terms of migration and migration policy. seems the body is a theme today. only the horrific part was learning that private prison companies will lobby the u.s. govt

to upgrade the level of punishment for a crime from say a misdemeanor to a felony to increase the number of bodies in prison because that increases revenue. this takes bottom line practice to a new fucking level. i think i'm going to join critical resistance.

ps it looks like basekamp is really back in action. they have an excellent book store set up. and new curators for the space. i suspect i'll be visiting more often this year.