Proposal

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Hello,

I look forward to our collaboration!
This is a wonderful opportunity to share and exchange dialogue with the National and potentially International communities.
I am very excited about this project comrade!
I too have similar concerns dealing with meaning in art and what not.
I would still like to hang myself from a tree!
Not sure about "Art in America" or the saw.
I'd hate to be cliche!
Better to be consciously referential, ironic and postmodern!
I propose a collaborative collaborative piece!
East Coast meets West Coast and together take on the world!

I would like to hang other stranger artists and academics INTERNATIONALLY and in multiples!
This way I can further participate in the original collaboration.
In this collaboration I would like to experience what it is to hang artists/academics from trees.
This piece is site specific to the Los Angeles, CA area as I cannot afford to fly to your country to hang you. The concept deals with issues. Issues originally stated and other very important ones as well! I hope to discover the man/nature relationship and to hopefully aid the mainstream and the mid-stream to see that tree just a little more clearly. The end goal here is to make the world a better place for you and me.

Life is like a box of chocolates, mass produced from a factory on a mega machine. I go crazy for the Coco, from the coca, from the land near a tree. Once the box has been opened you have become civilized. The box must be recycled, the coco/coca's returned to the earth.
Man------nature------chocolates-----machine. Once these bravely expressed metaphors can be truly recognized by cultural/political, bohemian, artists, homo's, historians, and other finely tuned academics. The box of chocolates is not only like life, but like art. In this case high art, post modern contemporary fine art, indisputably!
However, anything can be called art.

For example, this message "is art", and I am going to exhibit this prominently on a white wall in boxed glass, behind an opaque piece of paper, so it cannot be read.
As this piece of art is ephemeral, time based, and deals with machine-man-ship, nature processes, what truly constitutes good art and an extreme emphasis on "bad art", Kitsch peasantry if you will. The fabulous and the beautiful!

(Waiver for this segment of our collaboration):

If you care to participate in this 2-part art research extravaganza, please send me a signed waiver that states you are an artist/academic, why you would like me to hang you from a tree, and that you have requested to be hung in a tree for arts sake.
Let me be clear!
Safety is one of my priorities and will do my very best as an artist (predominantly a painter) to insure your safety.
Please also include a signed release letter just to be extra safe.
In this waiver you must also write, that you are willing to be photographed as well as hung, and agree to give me complete freedom to do whatever I want with them.
This is a collaboration!
So feel free to be hung in any creative way you would like.
Please just send me a 2-4 page proposal prior to the scheduled execution.

Thank you!

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