This is real art, my beloved sceptics!

I hear the voices of my fellow artists. Gerhard Naschberger (formerly "Junge Wilde" (Young Wilds) and "Muehlheimer Freiheit" member, also formerly one of my private teachers, since I never went to art academy... gotta make it happen somehow, right?) told me 2 days ago, that Bloody Hands is a great idea and can be really good, but I also have to do art. Haha.

He is scared, that Bloody Hands becomes a joke thing like mustaches on subway advertising, though it could be a nice vehicle to gain popularity. I hear you, Gerhard, but.

In Germany, there was this dude, called the Bananasprayer, who gained popularity in the 80s spraying bananas on galleries and art places as sign for quality. I told the guy in the face, that he is a joke, that his stuff is not art, and that I don't like him. He is running around in yellow suits these days... and he pretty much is making a joke out of conceptual art, the fool.

MomaSF just sent me a direct message, wanting to know my favorite artist. I named Nikki York, Warhol, Jenny Holzer and Duchamp. Jenny Holzer is not making jokes and she is not a fool. One could say, "but she is just spraying words (truisms) on walls". Obviously this does not capture what she really does.

Popularity is not why I am doing this. It does make sense to become popular, because I started conceptual art in 1991, and there are so many concepts and actual performances and experiments etc. that I already did, mostly by myself. They aren't bad, but concept isn't new. This is past and also my past.

Social sculpture to the extend that I am doing it and developing it further is new. It also hasn't worked very often in the past. How many people know Marcel Duchamp? He is a marker in art history same as VanGogh or Picasso. The later changed the whole world. Duchamp did not, he only changed the furniture in the ivory towers.

Another, wanting to stay anonymous artist, told me yesterday, that I am not taking my art seriously enough, the heaviness of the subject would be treated too lightly. This is absolutely intended, because otherwise the heaviness of the subject does not get treated at all. "Go watch TV, kids, there's a man dying in our front yard." I'm not a politician or a detective facing murder.

Both said: You cannot sell "Bloody Hands" (Go paint, kiddo).

This isn't about money either. I'm happily surviving, if people want to give me money, sure.
I do however listen to my teachers, and they are right and helpful in many ways. Today is sketching day. I will produce sketches of how I envision the social sculpture Bloody Hands. And action! :)