About this series
Part of a larger group of collages mostly in the A4 format, these works are united by the inclusion of quotes from R.D. Laing’s “The Politics of the Family and Other Essays”, a rather interesting psychology text from the 1960s.
Forbidden
Collage on paper (A4)
Maio 2024
“We would know more of what is going on if we were not forbidden to do so, and forbidden to realize that we are forbidden to do so.”
Projection
Collage on paper (A4)
Maio 2024
“Projection is a mapping of inside onto (or into) outside, and introjection a mapping of outside onto inside.”
Between Truth and Lie
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“Between truth and lie are images and ideas we imagine and think are real, that paralyse our imagination and our thinking in our efforts to conserve them.”
Definitely Forbidden
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“One seeks to avoid painful feelings, but there are many pleasurable feelings many people are forbidden to experience, imagine, remember, dream about, and they are definitely forbidden to talk about the fact that they are forbidden to talk about them.”
Thirteen
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“When I was thirteen, I had a very embarrassing experience. I shall not embarrass you by recounting it."
Plays Within Plays
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“We cannot expect to catch the curtain going up or down in a drama we are born into. But there are plays within plays.”
Mirror
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“If you don't believe me, just look at yourself in the mirror carefully and you will see that I'm telling the truth.”
Normalize
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“Given our distinctions and our rules, we have to work to normalize our experience.”
Outlawed and Excommunicated
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“If our wishes, feelings, desires, hopes, fears, perception, imagination, memory, dreams... do not correspond to the law, they are outlawed, and excommunicated. Outlawed and excommunicated, they do not cease to exist.”
Haunted
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“His body was a sort of mausoleum, a haunted graveyard in which the ghosts of several generations still walked, while their physical remains rotted away.”
Scandalized
Collage on paper (A4)
Março 2024
“Many people used to be scandalized by this view, for it seems to imply that, if there were not such rules, people might do what was prohibited.”
Rules About Rules
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“Many such rules about rules apply to what parts of whose body can be thought of in relation to whom.”
Them
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“But then, what are we defending ourselves against? Nothing? Oh no! The danger, the menace, the enemy, Them, are very real. So we have to start again…”
The play's the thing
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“The play's the thing. The actors come and go. As they die, others are born. The new-born enters the part vacated by the newly dead. The system perpetuates itself over generations; the young are introduced to the parts that the dead once played. Hence the drama continues.”
Origin
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“Our family of origin has done its best. It has given us its range of distinctions, options, identities, definitions, rules, repertoires of operations, instructions, attributions, loci, scenarios, roles, parts to play…”
Hopes / Fears
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“One hopes for the best, though one fears the worst.”
Honest / Dishonest
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“We are instructed to be honest. But instructed to operate on our experience in ways that can only be called dishonest.”
Rules Apply
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“Rules apply to what kinds of sensations one is supposed to have where and when in one's own body, in relation to whom.”
Me / Not-me
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“We feel ourselves to be inside a bag of skin: what is outside this bag is not-us. Me - inside. Not-me - outside.”
Filthy
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“…because since there are no filthy thoughts, and no rule against them, there is no need to talk about this dreary, abstract, irrelevant, or even vaguely filthy subject.”
Factories
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“Our own cities are our own animal factories; families, schools, churches are the slaughterhouses of our children; colleges and other places are the kitchens.”
Funny Places, Funny Feelings
Collage on paper (A4)
Fevereiro 2024
“What are the funny places where funny feelings go on? Where do they come from? Where do they go to?”