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I may not look good,
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But I'm an angel in disguise,
I'm just a woman,
I'm deep inside.

Jan Manzil 1990
posted by user 8:01 AM

I hate capitalists, I wish that I could typex them out of this world. Wherever I walk I see them, running around with money ouzing out of all their orrifices, spoiling the beauty of totnim caught road.
I feel my role as an artist is toeliminate them. Yesterday I bought 5 bottles of typex and when I saw a capitalyst I started trying to
typex him out, I nearly got his left arm done but then I ran out. I'm gonna have to save up so that I can buy a big bucket of typex from WHSmiths. I won't stop till I can afford to get rid of them all.
posted by user 7:37 AM

I just got tickets to see Mark Knopfler alive. I am exciting by it! I carry a lock of his hair in my handbag, I pulled it out of his head when I was
at a concert and was getting his autograph, they chased me for a while but i managed to hide in a tree. Anyway I think it brings me luck, in my work Mark is always creatively with me. Some of his song lyrics remind me of what it is to be alive. Ecspeically: 'you get your money for nothing and your chips for free' I am currently trying to persuade the Penguin Fish bar to give me free chips once a week, when I eat them I pull out the piece of his hair and realise he is with me as I eat them, I know that one day I will have more pieces of him and we will be happy together walking the dogs and building lino cuts.
posted by user 7:32 AM

I'm having issues with my hoover today. I saw a pile of filth and tried to hoover at it but it just blew it all around the lounge,
I couldn't believe it. I tried to fix it and then emptied some more filth out from the bin but that time it was just blown further,
I kept on fixing and sucking at more bits of filth but each way it was blown further. My whole longe is now sprinkled with dog hairs and
stinking rubbish and bile. I am gonna have to spend the money I saved for my next dog on a new hoover it is disgusting, why can people get way with making such devices so badly. I think I'm, gonna do an art project bout how much i hate this hoover.
posted by user 4:45 AM

Pissaro my small jackrussell terrier is desperately ill, we were messing around last night and I tripped over an old box and landed on him.
Then my mungrel Cezanne came and bit his leg. There was a terrible squeel as Pissaro fell to the floor howling and Cezanne turned and went for me, luckily I could grab Harry Potter from my desk and I managed to knock him out. This morning I got up at 6 and went to the vets. The wait seemed like ages but finally it was our turn.
Pissaro can barely breathe and he's got a yellow discharge coming out of him, the vet, Mr Herriot has kept him in all today and says he may not make it. I feel so alone,
Pissaro is more than a friend to me, we used to go on holidays together and he helped me in some of my performance pieces at Swindon college, I'm gonna make him a new collar ready for when he's better, I've just got some lovely new leather from my friend Dorenna and I'm gonna inscribe some bones on it!

Poor Pissaro, I want to cry..........I'm gonna make a video installation about how much I love my dogs....I hate this
posted by user 7:31 AM

Canine Art in Canning Town!

I always hate Mondays, I think it's because I am so excited by the start of the new week and all the things I'm gonna make!
I just never know where to start because it's all so pleasing.
At the moment I'm working on an interactive performance piece, it's about my dogs. Since I got divorced I seem to have bought more and more dogs, I can't resist em! They're so small and warm. Anyway now I have eight dogs, all of different breeds, from big to small sizes.
My video is about my relationship with them, I know it sounds a cliche, but I think dogs can be a woman's best friend. In the video I
take on the role and character of my different dogs and interact with multiple screen videos of myself as my dogs. We talk to each other and then I take us for a walk. I think the piece plays with gender and roles in society, it questions why people think dogs are less important than humans. In becoming a dog I feel liberated and take on a completely different personality, I made myself a kennel in the garden and lived in it for three days to try to understand what their life was like. after the videos play I present the real dogs and me
to the audience, I have played all the roles whilst they only have played themselves. I then question if there's any point in having them,
if I can be all of them with some simple costumes I built from sacking then what is the point in having the dogs, you know, I have myself to play with and walk, each day of the week I can be a different dog. In the final part of the piece I advertise the dogs in free ads and sell
them. I film the poeple as they come to buy each dog and as they arrive I take on the character of the relevant dog, will they want the real dog or me at the end of the day is what I want to find out?
posted by user 8:26 AM

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