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Charles Bukowski // "The young poets send their works to me, usually 3 or 4 very short poems. Some are fairly succinct, but they all lack the texture of madness and gamble, the inventiveness of the wild and trapped. There is a comfort there which disconcerts. Then there is the work of the street poets. Being on the skids, they should have some life advantages, they should not be debilitated by pretense. But they are full of it. Most of their output is about how they are not recognized, that the game is fixed, that they are truly the great ones and they go on about that, while writing little of anything else. Each week one or two little packets arrive from either the street poets or the comfortable poets. Kindness does not work with either type. Any response to their work begets more work plus their long letters expounding against the fates as if nobody but themselves ever had to deal with them. And if you fail to respond to that, in most cases, there will be follow-up letters which rail against your inhumanity: you too are against them, and, fuck you, buddy, you’ve lost it, you never had it, fuck you! I am not an editor. I never mailed my work to anybody but an editor. I never read my work to wives or girlfriends. These poets believe it’s all politics, an in-game, that some word from you will enable them to become renowned and famous. And that’s what they want. All that. And only that. The packets of poems keep arriving. If I were an editor I’d have to reject all of them. But I’m not. I write poems too. And when some of them come back and I reread them I usually feel that they should have come back. What you do is dig out and in, beat that keyboard so it yells and sings and laughs so well that the fix gets unfixed, that the god damned miracle arrives struck across the paper as you get up and walk across the room, your head buzzing, your guts wanting to fly through the ceiling. It’s the best fight, the last fight, the only one." . PHOTO: @__nitch . #id #asianart#creative #photography #visual #modernart #gallery #instamood #hkart #hkiger #hkig #vintage #urbanart #surrealart #urban #abstractart#digitalart #creative #fashion #shot #digitaldesign #arte #vogue #art

𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 (2020)⁣⁣⁣ A Stagnant Stack is a digitally manipulated self-portrait that explores the natural compulsion for personal excellence and a paralysing fear of mediocrity. ⁣ ⁣ The work reflects on sustaining ambition and motivation in the recent climate in which most industries are stagnant at best. Informed by column articles and think pieces to introspect and seek personal growth, the narrative the work presents appears to be protesting this forced productivity. However productivity is presented through the artwork - suggesting the ironic involvement of inventiveness, discipline and labour in employing the recurring motif in Lau’s work, the notion of the duplicated self. Drawing from Sisyphean attempts in personal improvement and its seeming futility, the doubling motif is contextualised by Psychoanalysis theories on the duality and interchangeability of performed identities.⁣ ⁣ Photoshoot facilitated by Chester Siu and friends.⁣ ⁣ A Stagnant Stack 是一幅電腦合成的自攝像。作品呈現對個人成就的追求和對流於平庸癱瘓般的恐懼。⁣ ⁣ 作品探討在各行業停滯期間嘗試維持個人志向及動力的行為。專欄及文章常鼓勵讀者利用這段空檔自省及促進個人增值。作品似是在表達對於這種不得已又勉強的生產力的抗議，卻在製作合成分身影像——一個劉氏作品中一再出現的元素——的過程中體現了創作力、紀律和勞動力。取材自對於個人成長無盡而看似徒勞的追求及其中西西弗斯式的重複嘗試，複製分身的主題也帶有精神分析學中多重而流動的身份認同及演繹的背景。⁣