Recipe For a Piece of Art [Writing]

Recipe For a Piece of Art

- One Art historical reference: a pinch of a once treasured teleology lost to the annals of fashion, or a mention of historical/classical artistic materials (paint, print, canvas, bronze, stone or celluloid, plastic, concrete, readymade, video) or specific absence of.

- A series (repetition and variation on repetition suggest an intended dialogue) of contemporary cultural references, from every day objects or events to iconic representations/reorganisations. Be weary of specific political or social references as they will date the work and cheapen it, but rather make grand gestures to the timeless questions and the human condition; inhumanity of humanity, the unsettling, long standing ideologies or politics that have been questioned for centuries and still aren't going anywhere etc.

- And finally a name. A witty rehash of the subjects you might be (but probably aren't) raising, or maybe an honest witty rehash of the subjects you really are interested in because either way it'll be taken at face value. Maybe even a nonsensical arrangement of words or phrases that provide the illusion of intention or meaning (but that could arguably be a subconscious convergence of ideas or references, a diving board to a zeitgeist of whatever culture you've been swimming in).