Imperfect Reflections

Imperfect Reflections - A? Hidahl - 2016 - ?

Imperfect Reflections

The circles and ovals in this piece are both chaotic and ordered.

They are randomly spaced, but reflected exactly, across the center.

That's how I see people, individually.

Everybody has their own unique composition; both Psychologically and Physiologically.

You are a reflection of the chaos within you. 

2016

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Punk Fuckin' Rock!!!

Punk Fuckin' Rock - A. Hidahl Art - 2016 - ?

PUNK FUCKIN' ROCK

Isn't just music...

Isn't just a catch phrase...

Isn't just a fashion...

Isn't just an angry looking guy at the bus stop...

PUNK FUCKIN' ROCK

is a philosophy...

a statement about society...

a celebration of ugliness...

a rejection of Fascism...

a desire to destroy the Oligarchy...

an understanding that the majority of society are sheep, and manipulated to remain such...

an embrace of apathy bordering on nihilism...

a rejection of religious extremism and theocracy...

understands that the phrase, "FUCK YOU" is a perfectly acceptable greeting or parting...

PUNK FUCKIN' ROCK

understands that it's probably smarter than "you"...

believes in STANDING UP for something...

PUNK FUCKIN' ROCK

has been fighting for YOU, whether you realize it or not...

has shaped society very quietly...

knew there were problems before anybody else did...

PUNK FUCKIN' ROCK

knows that the hippies were wrong...

we can't all "get along"...

there are too many assholes in the world for us all to just "get along"...

some people DESERVE a good cockpunch to their ego...

some people NEED to be put in their place...

taking the "high road" all the time only makes you look like a pussy...

BE OFFENSIVE!

because the people who get offended DESERVE it...

because SOMEBODY has to show the bastards that they can't shove everybody around...

because it's fucking funny as hell to see the prudes get all uppity about "four letter words"...

and because we are a reflection of the ugliness in society!

... besides, when you look like you could potentially headbutt anybody for any reason (or no reason at all), you find out exactly what the assholes are made of!

WE are the counterbalance to the lemmings!

WE are the rebels of modern society!

WE know that you're TOO FUCKING WEAK to fight the wars we need!

WE are the ones who will quietly usher in the anger of the next generation!

YOU'RE WELCOME!

FUCK YOU!

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2016

 

Old

Old

It's not uncommon for me to wonder what the world and I will be like when I get old...

... when my eyes are clouded with cataracts, and my hair is stark white...

... when my skin is (more) wrinkled...

... will my mind remain intact?

... will my hands still work?

What will life teach me?

How will my life define me?

How will I have defined my life?

What will be recognizable of the world, as it is now?

... and where the FUCK did I put my GODDAMN KEYS?!?!?!?!?!?!

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2016

New Vocabulary: White Whine

Colorado Puff

Colorado Puff - A. Hidahl - 2015 - ?

Smoking in the car

Take a COLORADO puff!

Light the bowl

and fill your lungs!

Don't stop

Until you can't take any more!

Put the bong aside

And choke on the dirty air!

Hold it for a second

And release!

Empty your lungs

And fill the car with ease!

Load the bowl again

And pass it to your best friend!

Give him a light

And let him get bent!

Chill with some music

And a view of the sunset!

Before you grab some dinner

And get your favorite Mexican plate!

But first,

One more rip

So we can really

TASTE this shit!

Fill your stomach

And feel good!

 This Friday,

Next Friday,

We'll grab some food

After we smoke some bud!

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2015

Geometric Eye

Geometric Eye - A Hidahl - 2015 - ?

If you haven't noticed, I really like making eyes, of various sorts.  I find eyes to be fascinating, for a few different reasons:

First, eyes have long been called "The gateway to the soul"; a sentiment that I find true.  I should add, I don't see a "soul" as being a component of religion; but as a component, or perhaps the entirety, of a person or animal's personality. A soul is a collection of individual experiences, spread out over one's entire lifetime; which combine to create a complete person.  If you know what you're looking for, the eyes can tell quite a compelling story, in the few moments that you're looking into them.

Secondly, I like the geometry of eyes.  Intricately-operating machines.  The oldest cameras known to man.

It was the geometry of the eye that inspired this particular work.  Particularly, the almost perfectly symmetrical geometry within the lens and iris.

In this work, the aforementioned geometry is highlighted and displayed in a geometric fashion; broken down to it's most basic elements, without the detail found in a real eye.

The Details Are in the Devil

The Details Are in the Devil - A Hidahl - 2015

The bastards are everywhere...

There are always people who want to tear you down...

To destroy you...

To exploit you...

To use you...

The hard part is figuring out

who are the devils

and who are the rest.

They say,

"The devil's in the details"

...but that's not exactly true...

... in fact, it's just the opposite...

The details are in the devil.

Some will use you for love...

Some for money...

Some for labor...

Some for comfort...

It all depends on the personal advantage that they're looking for.

... what they need...

... what they want...

... their addictions...

... their compulsions...

... their insecurities...

... their conscience (or lack thereof)...

... their logical (or illogical) conclusions...

... their lusts...

... their bitterness at the world...

Some will use you because they need to, for want of basic devices...

Some will use you because they don't think you'll notice...

Some will use you because they think you DESERVE it...

Some will use you, believing that they are HELPING you...

... and some will use you because they NEED to, in order to survive...

... and they will use you because they feel the shame of their predicament.

... but each one is different...

... each one wears a different mask...

... each one is controlled by the mask they wear...

... each one is different...

As each devil is different...

... and each devil has different motives...

I assure you,

The details are in the devil.

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AH

-2015

Your Tie

Your Tie is the Noose That Your Life Hangs You By

To an eternal Philosopher, uneasy thoughts cross one's mind often.

Uneasy, perhaps, to those unaccustomed to questioning their mortality; but a foray into the norm for those like myself, who fully embrace the fact that life ends when it ends.

I recently had a few job interviews, for which I wore suits; one of the things that I despise most abjectly.

While sitting in a waiting room among other applicants, a thought crossed my mind...

"Your Tie is the Noose That Your Life Hangs You By"

Consider the occasions at which you wear a tie:

Formal Events

Funerals

Weddings

Important Meetings

... and finally...

Resting in your own coffin, while bugs devour the rest of you.

Each instance, another sign that life is shorter.  Major life (and end-of-life) events; both yours and those of others.

People often say they "feel older" after these things, and for a good reason... each one is a major benchmark in one's life!  Partaking in these events (from a participatory capacity; not a professional one) ages a person, because they are often celebrating their own life or someone's that they've known for a long time.

 

 

Consider, also, the type of people who have to wear suits and/or ties in their careers...

People who wear them by choice seem happy, but people who are required to wear them but otherwise would not often seem very displeased with life... "dead inside".

It could be said that many people who wear suits daily, being Executives of large corporations, possess no sign of life anyway; bereft of conscience and over-abundant of narcissism; their groping piggy fingers abjectly removing life from those that they deem inferior to themselves, while simultaneously sucking the life from the planet.  Those who have no life of their own must remove it from others.

This is why they require their lessers to wear ties... to make those at the bottom believe they're more valuable than they are perceived to be... a smoke-screen... fish food for the gullible.

By artificially inflating the worth of those at the bottom, they are able to create enough misery within their souls for the soulless executives to feed upon.

Be it for profession or for celebration, one's tie shortens their life.  I entertain the belief that the less time one spends in a tie, the better their life will be.

'Tis true... "Your Tie is the Noose That Your Life Hangs You By"... whether it makes you dead inside, causing the slow death of others, witnessing life's landmarks, or embracing your final outfit.