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Emergency Brake:  a brake (as on an automobile) that can be used for stopping in the event of failure of the main brakes and to keep the vehicle from rolling when parked

I sometimes think we are all flying down the road, careening into doom.

But that is not true, its more like a slow drawl, an elongated pause before death

With an eye on the prize and gloom in the room, we fill our days with sedation. 

Seduced by bright colors and Baseball

We have been brainwashed since before television 

And now with our hypnotics in our pockets 

Control has been made easy, complete with listening and tracking devices 

Nothing is going to change, the main brakes have failed 

Now, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT MIGHT BE HARD FOR ONE TO GRAPPLE WITH THEIR OWN CRIPPLING NARROW SELF INTEREST, but anyone who thinks things are going well is a fool 

Might as well just pull the emergency break and try not to roll down the hill

MY WORK IS ABOUT THE WAY IN WHICH A PERSON WHO IS CONFINED  IN THE CAPITALIST STRUCTURE THAT WE ARE ALL STUCK IN CAN BECOME NIHILISTIC, FEEL HOPELESS, NOT KNOW HOW TO BEGIN TO FIX THINGS OR MORE THAN LIKELY STRUGGLE TO EVEN SURVIVE. THIS USUALLY LEADS TO A NEED FOR SEDATION IN SOME FORM IN ORDER TO COPE WITH IT, EVERYONE I KNOW PRACTICALLY HAS SOME KIND OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUE AND IF THEY DON’T THEN THEY ARE LIKELY ADDICTED TO NETFLIX OR SOME OTHER LESS DESTRUCTIVE ADDICTION, AND ALL ANYONE CAN DO IS THE BEST THEY CAN TO SELF PRESERVE, THIS IS FURTHER REENFORCED BY THE FACT THAT WE ARE TOLD THAT COMMUNITY IS A BAD WORD AND HERE IN LA IT IS WORSE WHERE NOT ONLY DO PEOPLE NOT LET EACH OTHER INTO LANES ON THE ROAD, THEY ARE LIKELY TO TRY TO ACTIVELY STOP YOU FROM CHANGING LANES, THIS MIGHT BE A SMALL THING TO SOME BUT I DIRECTLY CORRELATE ROAD BEHAVIOR TO THE HEALTH OF A SOCIETY, ROAD RAGE IS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO TRAUMA, THINK WIELDING A GUN GIVES YOU POWER, TRY A 2,000 TON MACHINE THAT CAN GO OVER 100MPH, AND NOT ALL OF THE ROAD RAGE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE IS A SWINGING DICK, YES SOME OF IT IS A RESULT OF SMALL PENIS SYNDROME BUT, I THINK A LOT OF IT COMES FROM FEAR. 

WE LIVE IN A FEARFUL SOCIETY FULL OF SELF PRESERVATION WHICH IS WHAT ONE DOES WITH THEIR BACK AGAINST THE WALL BUT IF WE COULD TAKE OFF THE BLINDERS FOR ONE SECOND AND REALIZE THAT WE ALL HAVE OUR BACKS AGAINST THE WALL THEN MAYBE WE COULD TURN SELF PRESERVATION INTO SOCIETAL PRESERVATION

I USED TO HAVE A MUCH HIGHER BELIEVE IN WHAT ART COULD DO, I THOUGHT IT COULD MOVE MOUNTAINS AND CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE THINK AND INSPIRE REVOLUTION, I THINK LESS OF IT NOW, IT’S JADING AND DEPRESSING, I WANT TO THINK OF ART LIKE HARRY POTTER, LIKE US AS ARTISTS ARE SUPER HUMAN, LIKE WE HAVE THE GIFT TO LEAD THE BLIND OUT OF THE DARK, TO RAISE UP THE PROLETARIATE AND BRING POWER TO THE MASSES, BUT NONE OF THAT CAN HAPPEN IF SOCIETY KEEPS BRAINWASHING US TO ONLY THINK FOR OURSELVES, FUCK EVERYONE ELSE, THIS IS MY LANE AND HOW DARE YOU TRY TO SHARE IT WITH ME. MY SHOW EMERGENCY BRAKE DOES NONE OF THAT, IT DOESN’T ATTEMPT TO FIX ANYTHING, ONLY BRING TO LIGHT SOCIETAL HYPOCRISY AND DEALS WITH MY OWN BOUT WITH MY OWN NIHILISM AND HOW I AM ALSO COMPLICIT, DEPRESSED AND IN A HOLE IN WHICH I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GET OUT OF

PLEASE COME WITH AN OPEN MIND AND DON’T FORGET YOUR SHOES 

I AM BAD. YOU ARE BAD. WE ARE BAD TOGETHER. HUMANITY IS A WRETCHED LOT BUT ART IS SLIGHTLY BETTER 

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Entrance- Place Bait Here, Broke Open, and My Time 

Install Shot

Install Shot

Standing Room Only
kiddie pool, milk, sugar water, animal feeders, alcohol bottles w/ speed pours 

Artificial Prison
Gym Clock with repeated count down and IPod with recording of me counting down the same amount of time 

Self Refraction
Throwing Knives, Skateboard, Oil on Board, Mirrors 

Couldn't, Wouldn't, Shouldn't
Letterpress on Babby Blanket 

Don't Think Just
Altered Typewriter, Barely running, cut keys in RX bottle 

Box Installation
Trapped by Perps 

Leave
Chain, Paint, Cardboard