"Would we love ourselves better if we were different?
Lets ask the insects, because they are different."
Steve Reinke, Ask the Insects (2005)

»Putting down her cup of tea, she asked in a timid voice, “Is light made of waves, or is it made of particles?” “Yes, exactly so,” replied the Mad Hatter.« Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. United States: Lee and Shepard, 1869.

“The universe is not an assemblage of independent parts, but an overlapping, interrelated system of energy. All my work relates to this vision.”Juan Downey

Steve Reinke, Welcome to David Wojnarowicz Week (2016)

As Joe Seale put it,
imagine your hand on your hip and thus forming a loop of energy, information, material and then your elbow sprouts a purple nower that grows breathing its way into the center of the loop, joining its walls to the donut (what a terrible word ... for something so beautiful as a flower growing out of your elbow and breathing in the space your arm cncloses.) A kleinform is not a cross section of a stopped click snapshot.
It flows back through itself, defining itself as it flows. A relation (with Joe cannot) be a snap shot . He has no energy for unshared space with unshared resourse./Warren Brodey 1972

“I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.” Kurt Vonnegut
Quoted by the artist group Chto Delat in their Canary Archives