In 1996 Jack Pierson displayed a sign made from discarded billboards and neon that said fuck you mocking the recent trends in abject and obscene art. Recently the word Fuck has been vital in the bejing art underground, popularized mostly by Ai Wei Wei. It is shocking in beijing not because of what it means but because it is popular and english . full circles .

Today i spent 3 hours installing a show. The artist is quiet and gentle but makes nasty and obscene art full of vital fluids. I own a painting of his with a guy giving auto fellatio and the word genuis underneath him . But the joy of installing is not meeting artists , it is making your hands raw with sand paper and yr clolthes stained with paint. It is constructing, the achemial thrill of making something from nothing . I have to go to work and i am white with plaster but i really dont care.

Today there was 9 anthrax scares in the capital. We live in Bumfuck Alberta guys we aint the whitehouse so settle the fuck down