Documenting Saspisius Behavior



OPEN CALL Art Show in Brooklyn, $200 prize

No joke. Usually curators try to scam you out of 30 bucks or more… or for those of you surfing craigslist often, they advertise nonstop and seek to stick you in some shitty space on a piece of foam core in the middle of a rave so that after paying a $100 registration fee, you can have your heart and soul trampled or ignored along with a ton of other artists who were likewise SCAMMED.

Unlike that lovely scenario, this one is legit. 5 dollars gets you space on a nice clean, white wall against hardwood floor in a professional, yet artistic setting. Good luck, Ya’ll. The curator tells me they may extend the call throughout the coming week, if there is enough demand for it.








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Installation view of Cai Guo-Qiang’s magnificent “Head On” from 2006

Breath-taking… wish i could see in person







Ted Stanke Art- http://tedstanke.com/index.html

Sculptures out of metal coin bits. Pretty cool.







200 Homeless Men Moving in Next Door.

So in one fell swoop, Greenpoint, my home and love as of recent, is going to be turned into a hell-hole. Just wait- Crossing the Pulaski Bridge to and from work is going to be killer. Being a petite and tiny girl in the city is dangerous enough without having 200 potential predators living in the building next to mine. And i just moved here! Because it was safer than my old neighborhood! Who decides this shit?







The Townhouse Art Gallery logo! Designed by moi.







Interview with Cognac @ The Townhouse Art Gallery

I had art in a group show at this up-and-comming gallery in Park Slope, NYC. After a couple of doses of wine, i was interviewed last… so the whole thing is kinda shakey. In addition, i was a little nervous. DON’T JUDGE ME! XD







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Sigmar Polke, Menschenbrücke, detail, 2005








I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010 (via artnotartnot)






EVOLUTION OF SEX/RAPE

 From:  http://www.wsu.edu/~taflinge/biosex2.html

……………She has presented her posterior and he tries to respond. However, her newly arranged and pneumatic body (“…as the female primate changed into the female human, her new body made sex difficult. Her vagina was now not easily accessible but difficult to get to. It moved far forward, got a covering layer of flesh, and became hidden between two heavy columns of bone and muscle.”) prevents his success. Now, what happens if some bright boy comes up with a flash of brilliance: “If I can’t reach from this side, how about if I try from the other?” Carrying out his brilliant plan, he flips her on her back, spreads her legs, and tries again.

This is fine for him. However, what is her reaction? Remember, up to this time, all mating has been from the rear. For him to flip her on her back and get on top of her must mean, to her, that he is attacking, not mating. On her back her soft belly is unprotected, she can’t run, her legs are unavailable since he’s between them. In other words, she’s scared out of her little protohuman mind.

She has two choices: fight back, or submit. If she fights back, he fights as well. Since he is probably bigger and stronger, if only slightly, he will probably win. She will thus fall back on choice two — she submits and makes appeasement signals.

Now is when things get weird. She submits, making appropriate appeasement signals. He, following instinct triggered by her signals, immediately stops what he is doing and backs away. It doesn’t matter that he wasn’t actually attacking. What does matter is she made appeasement signals and he must back away.

She, of course, is bewildered. She was all set for the undoubtedly enjoyable activity of sex. Suddenly, he attacks her. What’s the matter with him?

He’s even more confused. She came up obviously prepared for fun. He was of like mind. However, he has difficulties because of her changed anatomy that he hasn’t adapted to yet. He came up with the perfect solution, and she immediately tried to fight him off. What’s the matter with her? Then, when she stopped fighting, he instantly lost interest. What’s the matter with him? What’s the matter with this whole business?

However, this was the story of Mr. A. What about Mr. B? Same scenario, but when she makes appeasement signals, Mr. B reacts. However, unlike Mr. A, he does not back off, but continues until orgasm. Why? His instinctual reaction to appeasement signals is weak; they do not instantly turn off his actions. The upshot is Mr. A and his genes die out; Mr. B and his genes continue. Enough Mr. Bs and the instinct for stopping aggressive behavior when opponents surrender is bred out of the species. Aggression is bred into sex.