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Vanessa Veselka

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Vanessa Veselka is an active artist in the contemporary cultural field, born on March 14, 1969. Her works span across various art forms including painting, sculpture, and installation art, known for her unique artistic style and profound thematic exploration.

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“I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out to everything. Next to the megalithic institutionalized shredding of people's humanity, marked by tombstone malls and scabby hills, the Styrofoam gullets and flag-waving god-chatterers casting their votes for eternal paternity on the lap rapists - next to all of that, the intimacy between a terrorist and his target was almost a beautiful thing but I still couldn't solve that moment when they did it anyway so I grabbed more paper and widened my field of vision.”

Humanity Terror Dehumanisation

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“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own interests. Mooing about how to refinance the slaughterhouse. Putting skylights in the killing pen and pretending the bolt in the brain was a pathway to a better field. I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book, I thought.”

Suffering Grief History Misery

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“But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.”

Knows Want Needs Mean I Can Sometimes Care Emptiness Crave Exhausting Rift

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“Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.”

I Can Names So Sad

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“The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.”

World Children Grows Growing Up Violent

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“I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.”

Ifs Feelings Dies Fronts If I Could

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“There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.”

Important Wonder Atheist Agnostic Mystic Sense Of Wonder

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“I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.”

Believe Moving Atheism Mysticism Candle

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“Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly.”

Kind Values Gracious

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“There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.”

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“If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.”

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“Go ahead and do what you're doing.”

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“As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.”

Art Common Musician Art Is Autonomy

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“For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.”

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“I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.”

Important Intuition

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“I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.”

Futility Powerlessness

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“I'm really bad at being nonviolent.”

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“The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.”

Looks Band Capitalism Misery Aids Wounds Tea Liberalism Bubbles Hello Equations Kitties Band Aid Festering Hello Kitty

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Born: March 14, 1969
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