DIRK MONTENY / BELGIUM - ISSUE 7 / SEPTEMBER 2006

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Life
Of all your choices
Don't do anything too long
There's not enough time

Awakening In Another World

Monteny Dirk

Studies : Art Academy, Brugge, Belgium (1987-1990) - traditional drawing, painting and photography techniques
AKI Art Academy, Enschede, The Netherlands (1990-1993) - Media-art, computer-art and video installations

Open Your Hand

A Machine To Count The Days Of True Bliss
Those days of pure bliss
Like on graduation day
An artist at last

A computer screen as canvas. Cool calculations, hidden in software, as a brush.

Living in a cold, uncaring, perfect universe. Coming into life, unprepared. Leaving this world without understanding, or with a lie.

The time in between, breathing, wishing to keep yourself alive. But still, finding beauty in fractals, the patterns of nature and life.

Closing Time

Chickensoup Universe
In my universe
I can make any planet
But no chickensoup

Granted, this may not be what people want out of art. I'm not proposing warmth, promising a better day, a smile into the future.

The chilly side of art is where my work is positioned. I hope it is not too distant to be seen.