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Seeing - Our Unique Vision

11/15/2020

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Our vision is our individual vision.Each of us see things differently. Sharing our individual vision can be a wonderful process. Tell me about your vision!
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Pluma Blanca - Hermosillo, Mexico

1/17/2020

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Pluma Blanca

A  place of refuge and dreams
Eclectic changing scenes
Artists Musicians and Thinkers
A dance of winking drinkers
Jimi Hendrix on the wall
Speaking a language for us all
Exquisitely the night moves on
Laughter and discussion bond
In here politics have no place
This is an intellectual space
She whispers in my ear
Shall we have another beer
The clock ticks past one
None of us are done
Tomorrow doesn’t exist
How could I resist
The white feather shines
It’s creative and sublime
And now I end this Rhyme...
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Ubiquitous Surveillance Series - Selected Works

1/2/2020

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All of the pieces below are are three dimensional and are built on a 3x3 inch cube. They include collage as well as assemblage elements. 
This series of works is a response to the now almost constant forms of surveillance we are under in our daily lives.
​Almost daily we provide our information through various means without even considering the consequences. 
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No. 6
"It's Own Life"
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No. 1
Shown at ""City of Mud" in Santa Fe New Mexico,
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No. 3
Currently showing at "Cinema Gallery" in Urbana, Illinois
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No. 2
Currently showing at "ArtsIllina Gallery in Terra Haute, Indiana

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No. 4
Completed 08/06/2019
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No. 5
Completed 06/013/2019
​Sold - Private Collector
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Art Art Art

11/4/2019

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A Collaboration of Milena Boskovic Badnjar and Art Tucker
​Vocals by MilenaLyrics/Poem and Musicby Art
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L’ART POUR L’ART EX-SUPERSTAR

9/11/2019

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  • Note -Introducing the artist Milena Boskovic Badnjar. She is a fellow artist who resides in Belrade, Serbia. Milena and I are working on a collaborative series that will be shown in Serbia.
  • ​Below is her artist statement and selected works by Milena.
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Milena Boskovic Badnjar
Painting performed and still performs a logical breakthrough. Against the laws of reason, taste, hierarchy, order, discipline... At the beginning of the 20thcentury, the revolutionary turn constantly shifting the focus got the name Dada, a cradle of modern art, or as the Dadaists used to say - an agglomeration of currents without conclusion and existential standpoints... A concept of life force in itself - creating in the world...
 
We are all witnesses of that world. I am a witness of that world and of this ’new world’. The historical turbulence around little me, new media of comunication and global estetic changes have in several turns affected my work. What surrounds us forces us to transform ourselves. If you are a visual artist out of all those influences comes socially engaged art. 
​In a complete commotion a person has to take a stand and put it on the market. 
Based on dadaist principles, this production  bares a title ”L’ART POUR L’ART EX-SUPERSTAR, IT IS TIME TO SHINE”  
 Techniques of classical painting,  became too heavy for a present-day consumer with weary concentration, ripped apart from the amount of demands he has to fulfill on a daily basis.  Now is the time for more direct, stronger and purer step towards the observer. He needs to be splashed, slapped, refreshed, coloured, overjoyed.
 
All polished, shiny, untouchable, mighty, puffed,  unscratchable, with stretched and overstrung surface, the 21stcentury calls for perfection, maybe too external, too formal, loathing old age and decay.
 I wanted to give my contribution by harmonizing the relation between the exterior and the interior and reviving the spirituality on several levels.
 
I often work with elements which represent the minds of the machines. Pulled out of their usual context and detached from their function, they are still filled with urban symbolic, logic, beauty and intense colours.
 It is not my goal to promote the idea of recycling although I support it wholeheartedly out of respect for this tormented planet. I am more impressed by the beauty of those pieces of old gadgets. Furthermore, the materials I use are documents of time and changes, of expensive and complex manufacturing processes, facts of the magnificent human thought. 
Used as elements of artwork they are in an upcycle process different from recycle in which the objects are degraded to feedstock. The artistic upcycle process glorifies those chosen objects as aesthetic symbols.
 
 
I call for a new breakthrough in the face of a new collapse of western civilization which as the Dadaists said is “a dangerous mystification giving false stability and illusion of an anthropocentric universe.” 

Old things in new clothes. For Dadaists The First World War signified a great comeback of western man’s egoism and megalomania. Wars are still around us, aren’t they?  
 
An entire century passed without any essential change. I enjoy the changes in aesthetics; any other change has to be an act of personal effort. With my exhibition I wish to give hope in the belief that every individual refinement is worthwhile.
My paintings are ‘rap’ and ‘dread’, ‘parkour’ and ‘comics’, ‘graffiti’ and ‘pseudo Esperanto’ with lots of joy and urban defiance toward the expected and the linear, with the idea of desirability of shine, Шајn, with capital Cyrillic Ш. Shhh...shhh... A calming sound. Shine is an achievable feeling. We all have it and we can bring it to the surface.

 
Milena Bošković Badnjar 

The Witness Series

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L’ART POUR L’ART EX-SUPERSTAR - Aluminum Series

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Ubiquitous Surveillance

7/22/2019

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A little over a year ago I began a series of works regarding the nature of the now almost constant forms of surveillance we are under in our daily lives. Whether it's Social Media, and other online venues or ever-present cameras around us we have essentially given up our privacy. What does that mean? Does it matter? The work below is one of three in the series thus far.
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"Ubiquitous Surveillance 2"
​Assemblage


The above piece will be featured in the "ArtsIlliana gallery in Terre Haute, Indiana beginning August 2, 2019-October 18, 2019. The show is entitled "Red". Below is the Gallery statement about the show.
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"Is RED just a color? If it is, then how many variations of RED are there? Throughout history humans have had a love/hate relationship with RED, e.g. in the 20th century we had RED countries and in the 21st century we have RED states. Is RED more than just a color?" - nArtsIlliana
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Link - http://www.artsilliana.com
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Strange World

6/25/2019

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Music, Lyrics and Images by Art Tucker

​Related Poem for "Strange World"

It’s such a strange world
We never know what we’l find
A search for our own kind
A search that’s simply blind 
Open up your closed mind
It’s a strange world
Serching for a safe space

Theres a clear line between space and embrace
Step into a new place
A closed mind is a waste of time
​Now you make a rhyme 
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A Bluebird In His Heart

5/30/2019

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My visual interpretation of Charles Bukowski's Poem, "Bluebird"
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there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,

I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t

weep, do
you?
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New Life

4/1/2019

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Self Portrait
​A definition of self.
​Paper Collage
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Tristan Tzara

12/9/2018

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Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the Dada art movement. 
Tzara's shows at the Cabaret Voltaire and Zunfthaus zur Waag, as well as his poetry and art manifestos, became a main feature of early Dadaism. His work represented Dada's nihilistic side, in contrast with the more moderate approach favored by Hugo Ball.
Text adapted from Wikipedia.
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  • It was my great fortune to visit and spend an evening at Cabaret Voltaire in 2018.
  •  A delight! 
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