T=Top of all

Subject = name, date, place & time

A=Above all

Hey you!
Hope you are doing well, hope to see you in near future?
otherwise, I suggest you take a look around, if you have time for travel.
you won't be sorry!
talk to you later

Best!

C=Center of all

You get lost, place is OK, feeling wide. yesterday - everything seems so far away - I received your post-card from XXL post-platz. look - truly look - unfortunately I am not in best place and shape and not exactly flush, but still hoping to be better.
slovenia is getting frustrating, a bad taste and there is no harvest for me to enjoy. ljubljana is still (indoor&outdoor and in&here&there). time&place it’s not sensitive. it's hard to make things happen, that's sad but true about this place. kiss them all!
I don’t admire nonsense and I feel homeless. even future seems pointless to me. try to shi(f)t from production to consumption, but really wish to enjoy spirit of work, life and (in) nature. I don't want to keep on dying here for months, which I hope will not turn into years. wish to escape soon. sorry, this time I'm not deaf-and-dumb and think out loud...

see you in support ((wowow-land))

all the best,

a

in ljubljana, Dec 2002

D=Down below

We dream money. I do not think it useful to break commonsense notions of the power of money attaining everything. In fact, the situation should be made even more radical. That is, it should be taken even more as a matter of fact – not only that money is a measure and equivalent of everything but that it is actually a signifier of everything. It is at this point (the point of money) that the world reflects itself; it forges its image around this point. It measures itself with and even it sees itself in money. Everything is what it is and, at the same time, the least it is (its own) measure expressed in money. To face money is to face our inner supposition in which to have or not to have, to be or not to be is the game that is played. The modern world is so captured in its own monetary basis that money represents the basic foundation and the first impetus. Time is money. The exchange of words and the exchange of money constantly interchange. This circuit tells us that material existence requires daily prostitution. It also speaks of the transitions of the subject into the object, and vice versa – and it does not deny the difference. We witness an interiorised relationship with money in which numbers reflect man: we look at quantities and live numbers. In this place the art of business and art as business intermingle. Andy Warhol was not only the first to express this pattern in its extreme but he also expressed in painting what he liked the most, and did it by painting money. Not any money, of course, it was money of high value (backed by gold); not the Yugoslav dinar but the American dollar. In the era of serial reproduction, the artist systematically repeated and printed images that “went for money”. Warhol sold a painting for money but also placed money on the painting. Thus after this ultimate gesture it only remains to place painting onto money so that painting becomes money ‘in its pure form’. MONEY IS PAINTING and PAINTING IS MONEY. This gesture of course no longer belongs to the sphere of dreams, for it comes closest to the sphere of death. The glorification of money is a form of the death of the painting.