Bastard Writing - A ruled notebook page is filled with red and blue scribbles, faces, circles, arrows, and handwritten phrases.

art-069

Bastard Writing

2023-02-25

Medium
acrylic on canvas

Role: primary_artwork

Raw title: Bastard Writing

Aliases: Bastard Writing, bastardwriting

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Recall

A raw paper-collage confession where text, scribble, and cartoon violence collapse into one field. The repeated phrases read less like captions than symptoms, turning the page into a record of panic, refusal, and self-interrogation.

Song Pair

No song pair recorded.

Visual Text

are you okay / really / / I DON’T FEEL / LIKE FIGHTING / / I DON’T FEEL / LIKE FIGHTING / / I DON’T FEEL / LIKE FIGHTING / / Remember me / / Abstracted / ALL IN / / This feels like bastard / writing. bastard / bastard / BASTARD / / are you [okay] / both ways / / my controller doesn’t / work anymore / / SHOUT OUT / MAURICE / JONES-DREW / / are you okay / / don’t doubt it

Source

source filename: bastardwriting.JPG
site image: art-069-bastard-writing.jpg

Tags

Visible

Colors

graypink / purpleredblue

Part of

Connectedness #32 of 128

Manual Priority Evidence

No priority evidence recorded.

Transcript

are you okay
really

I DON’T FEEL
LIKE FIGHTING

I DON’T FEEL
LIKE FIGHTING

I DON’T FEEL
LIKE FIGHTING

        Remember me

Abstracted
ALL IN

This feels like bastard
writing.        bastard
                bastard
                BASTARD

are you [okay]
both ways

my controller doesn’t
work anymore

SHOUT OUT
MAURICE
JONES-DREW

are you okay

don’t doubt it

Line breaks preserved. Square brackets are literal/uncertain from user transcript where present; no special color/strike notation specified for this work.

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