Tuesday 5 March 2024

On drawing lines and crossing them...

TOMGOS: I'm worried, I want to talk to you about our recent blog posts... I think people might be offended, I worry we crossed a line...

TATHOS: Pffft, this project is all about crossing lines... Ok, the language was a bit fruity, but seriously people can't be uptight about that... Relax old friend, you need to chill

TOMGOS: It's more than the language... It's the attitude...

TATHOS: What attitude?! What's the problem? Just say for fuck's sake

TOMGOS: There you go again! Can't you say anything without swearing? I'm worried about the umm, references to... ummm... certain sexual practices...

TATHOS: Ah! The arse fucking? It's ok, loads of people do it... I hear...

TOMGOS: Over a 39% of 22-24 year old hetrosexual men, apparently, but that's not the point... You were making jokes about it between two men, that doesn't seem ok...

TATHOS: Wow, numbers!

TOMGOS: Numbers are more useful that 'loads of people'...

TATHOS: 'Loads of people' makes more sense to me... Well, they just happened to be men... And it wasn't a joke about the sex, it was about the art and how it looks like something's happening that wasn't supposed to be... Shit... Do you think I upset people?

TOMGOS: I don't know, I hope not. Why are they all men anyhow? Do you hate women?

TATHOS: What?! No! Seriously! I don't know, putting women in there seems... wrong... they aren't people, they are proxies for people... dolls... I guess... huh... I guess they are all us, on some level

TOMGOS: Huh... All us... I guess so actually... Some more than others?

TATHOS: I think... I guess some are very much us, like the guy staring, but some are sort of us, like the guy ars... crashing... and some are sort of shades of us... shades of humanity really

TOMGOS: Why didn't you say that before?

TATHOS: I only realised it when you made me think of it

TOMGOS: You're weird

TATHOS (mockingly): 39% of hetrosexual men... look at me... I'm Tomgos... I'm a talking calculator with bad hair...

TOMGOS (annoyed but laughing): You have literally the same hair as me!

TATHOS (laughing): But it somehow looks better on me...

TOMGOS: So are we going to be more careful in future?

TATHOS: I'm not sure... Yes... and no... We need to keep pushing boundaries...

TOMGOS: But not crossing lines....

TATHOS: But the lines are in different places for different people...

TOMGOS: Huh... Interesting... So we have to keep testing?

TATHOS: I think, and remember this project is about how art is for saying stuff you can't say with words

TOMGOS: You can't swear in pictures...

TATHOS: But you can offend, I guess... Maybe we need to make art that leads people to the places we can't say, but doesn't go there?

TOMGOS: Starts difficult sentences people can't help but finish?

TATHOS: I like that, yeah... Like the postcards sort of do...

TOMGOS: They create a frame, and people hopefully can't help but fill it...

TATHOS: Hopefully...

TOMGOS: So are you going to swear less?

TATHOS: Fuck off....


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