The Taking of Bell's Bridge

Like Christo I have covered Bell's Bridge in art. Unlike Christo however, the art I have created does not cover over but digs underneath. It is also, unlike Christo's delicate silky leggings, not an attempt to prettify the bridge but to simply reveal why the bridge is perhaps there in the first place. Moreover, the taking of Bell's Bridge as it sounds is an act of civil disobedience insofar as I refuse to jump through hoops in order to publish my work. The 'established channels' are often self-defeating and too narrow to encompass the full range of what is being said. Stencilling is one way to avoid these constrictions and to publish your work yourself. If people are offended by what is being said then so be it: you have a right to be offended. It is also a tactic to toughen people up by showing them how docile and pet-like they have become under the remit of capitalism and a predatory uneconomic economy. People are still, as Laing says, in a state of post-hypnotic trance induced in infancy, and so the infant is gullible, impressionable, and believes anything that you tell them. This is the nature of the infant: it believes everything is the truth (which ordinarily it is under Nature), until man came along and invented a language that did not accord with the body. Thus, modern day man is under the influence and the spell of his fellow man which is, in the infant's world, nothing more than the toddler marvelling at the size of its own shit. The infant does not do civil disobedience then since it believes that the civil is truth. Time then for those who have not been arrested by civilization and mesmerized (stopped and stupefied) by it, for those whose backbones and hearts are still intact, to stand up and shout.