Let there be a free flow of thought,
let there be the one attentive figure
let there be a loud sound.
let there be circles, squabbles, and more that will change space.
let the human mind draw form the imagination of the inner most parts of the mind,
and when all this is over.
we will scream and shout
LOUD.
Dear Mr Jack the ripper
HELL-o how are you dear sir , I hope you are fine, and all is well in your part, how are the murders in Whitechapel street coming up to , hope you know who all are getting what they deserver.
Now the main subject of writing this letter is that you are following unorthodox ways of killing people and this union has heard many complaints about your ways. This unorthodox display of work has come into the record of the union, and we are sending you this warning.
You have been following unorthodox methods which our previous members have followed. this has brought in shame to the union , note sir, we are a prestigious order and we have made rules which are subject to be followed in any condition given (as it is said in your contract) , it is a solemn waste of your tools and fine machinery , thus if you do want to continue the murders at Wc street please follow the guidelines and methods mentioned in your contract, if not we will be forced to remove all benefits(health and wealth) and your membership to the union.
All that aside, sir, how is your beloved wife, hope her grave stinks as much as the streets (or worse),and your son and daughter (waiting for one of them to follow their fathers foot steps) and their mothers skill (Ah! yes the carving knife- I remember the episode with the three blind mice as if it were done yesterday), well do pass my regards unto them
Thanking you
Yacob Slater
Chief inspector – Scotland Yard
The myth of china was an exhibition by the curator Dhanya R ( this is her first time venture, the exhibit was held at an alternative space Bengaluru Artist Residency also know as BAR1, the exhibit hosted Me (Barfthought) and other artists who have displayed for the first time whose names are as follows
Mithila Baindur,
Shailaja Padindala,
BARFTHOUGHT
Rekha
Navya
Sayujya
Namratha Nadkarni
Venkatesh K.N
out of which Venkatesh K.N and Mithila Baindur have already displayed their works before in previous exhibits.
I have used posters here as a mode of representing China by my faintest presumption (of course by brushing up some history here and there) and displayed works as comments of other works done by other artists.
form top- Rekha.P with her menue with Christof behid the BARFTHOUGHT poster MAOC DONALDS
H.A Anil KUMAR with fourth of his name written as the poster by BARFTHOUGHT ( which was next to Navya’s Chinese calendar
Rome a renaissance venture – outside there was a building under construction.
Peanuts Existentialism (under that was a bed)
And last but not least Papa Bear with taking out Buddha ( by Mithila Baindur) next to it BARFTHOUGHT “the big B
All are parallels but yet there is nothing similar.
The man who drank blood from the skull,
the skull who drank blood from the man.
They greeted each other in an orderly fashion,
tossing up skin and bones.
Then they danced the dance of death,
and lifted each other up.
and started clicking photographs,
in sculptural poses.
They saw the guards take the living disembowelled bodies on stretcher's.
"Salute the living for they are going to die",
said the skull to the man.
"Salute the dead for they are going to live",
said the man to the skull.
And then they chanted in the most Gregorian notes,
"Growls the sword,
leaving the sheath.
The hand remembers,
the work of battle".
They lamented over the city,
As they were watching ,the devils angels shove their pitchforks,
up the populous ass.
In the mean time they raised their skirts and danced the bharatanatyam.
They ordered Blood at the square ,
and drank heartily.
And cheered the world and its entire doings.
Barf Thought
Priv-ulic photograph by Clyde D’mello aka BARF THOUGHT
A photograph taken on any bus on the way to some place that leads from position A to B in between A & B is A1/ B1, here the city echo’s history (think that A and B are the outskirts) and the dystopia-the photograph is a representation of the city and all that happens within on the other hand the bus system for Bangalore is like the back bone of this city like the trains of Bombay (or so they say).
-what people do in private is shown in the public openly, B grade movies is what some people watch in private, here the posters of the some movies are put in public. This bus stop also represents the behaved- misbehaved public drawing the line and in between is a point – the bus stop- to show case the private-public- PRIV-ULIC
BARF THOUGHT
MEDIUM – Photograph and handouts
Anil sir holding the hand outs and the photograph and the way it was displayed, the exhibit was held at 1shanthiroad gallery and studio, instigated by Himanshu S who was at Bangalore for the BAR1 Residency along with many other CKPites in the display.
