when i dream it is the same as being awake

javier tellez, letter on the blind, for the use of those who see, 2007, production still

yesterday i went to see the whitney biennial- and found this video work to

be one of the only few worth noting.

tellezs' work was a recreation of the Indian parable, the Blind Men and the Elephant.

Kind of a documentary filmed at the abandoned McKarren pool in Williamsburg, where

six blind people of different walks were all allowed to touch ula, this elephant. 

all of their reactions were drastically different and some being so thoughtful and spot on.

they made me laugh and cry. 

'are you awake in the world?'

if only we could all touch so thoughtfully and lightly as if we were blind.

other notes:

book, james welling, flowers

'the second sentence of everything i read is you'

'leftover remnants of snow'

'give me your everything' 

give me your end

conditions of light within us

'something being massive and losing that feeling as you observe it'

'imaginatively projecting'

door ways

marble - food terrains 

ships

painted fabric

ballet slipper pink

elephants, of course.