Two spiky-haired Russian cats hit kick flips

on a vert ramp. The camera pans to another

 

pocket of  the room where six kids rocking holey

T-shirts etch aerosol lines on warehouse walls

 

in words I cannot comprehend. All of this

happening in a time no older than your last

 

heartbeat. I’ve been told the internet is

an unholy place — an endless intangible

 

stumbling ground of false deities

dogma and loneliness, sad as a pile of shit

 

in a world without flies. My loneliness exists

in every afterthought. Yesterday, I watched

 

a neighbor braid intricate waves of cornrows

into her son’s tiny head and could have lived

 

in her focus-wrinkled brow for a living. Today

I think I practice the religion of  blinking too much.

 

Today, I know no neighbor’s name and won’t

know if  I like it or not. O holy streaming screen

 

of counterculture punks, linger my lit mind

on landing strips — through fog, rain, hail —

 

without care for time or density. O world

wide web, o viral video, o god of excrement

 

thought. Befriend me. Be fucking infectious.

Move my eyes from one sight to the next.

 

 

 

 

Pied Piper

 

 

Andy Warhol, (1928-1987), American, taught us to love the million flashing images in wild and wonderful colours. 

 

To crave them…

 

 

 

A view of portraits made by Andy Warhol between 1963 and 1987, exhibited at the Whitney Museum of (North) American Art in 2018/19

 

 

Left:  Irving Blum and Kimiko Powers, both 1972

Right: Ileana Sonnabend, 1973 and Henry Geldzahlher, 1973-74.

All acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen.  Loaned by various to the Whitney Museum of Art in 2018/19

 

 

A view of portraits made by Andy Warhol between 1963 and 1987 at the Whitney Museum of (North) American Art in 2018/19

 

 

 

and not to be afraid to put ourselves in the frame of a virtual life. 

 

 

 

Silver Liz (diptych), two panels, 1963, silkscreen ink, acrylic, spraypaint on canvas.

Private collection on loan to the Whitney Museum, NY in 2018/19

 

 

Gold Marilyn, 1962, silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas. 

Loan to the Whitney Museum in 2018/19 from a foundation in Germany.

 

 

 

So much more heart-palpitatingly interesting than the life ordinary, the life mundane…

 

 

 

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Republic of Estonia E-Residency Kit, designed 2014, plastic, paper, software, electronics

made by the Republic of Estonia E-Residency Program, Talinn, Estonia.  Exhibited in 2019 at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

In 2014, Estonia introduced the concept of E-Residency offering anyone, anywhere the opportunity to apply for digital residency in Estonia. 

The program is administered by digital Government-issued ID cards.

  It does not grant tax residency or citizenship.  It permits online secure access for business or personal use from anywhere; access to Estonian public and private services; encryption and secure transmission of documents; and access to international payment service providers.

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of App Addiction, charcoal, 2017.  

  Maria Christina Jimenez.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

 

 

Drowning, oil on linen, 2017. 

Maria Christina Jimenez.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

 

 

 

Cables and Wires, screenprint. 

Artist TBD.  2018 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unplug, oil on linen, 2017. Maria Christina Jimenez

  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

 

 

 

Fall with Me for a Million Days (My Sweet Waterfall), 2016, oil on canvas.

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer,  American born 1979.  Whitney Biennial, NY, 2017

 

 

 

 

Subway Ride, oil, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 2016. 

Josias Figueirido, a student in 2016 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dopamine Chemical Code CBH11NC2, and detail, oil on linen, 2017. 

Maria Christina Jimenez.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts