I was listening to the album, "Wormhole" by Ed Rush & Optical from 1998 while working on these. The album is really tough and the album artwork by Fergus Quinn is a direct influence.
The idea behind the phrase, "The Price of Radmission," came from reading the book "The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates" by Daniel Golden. I have an ongoing interest in class issues in America and I thought the book did a good job of exposing class bias in the college admissions process.
For example, with Title IX -the law providing gender equality in collegiate athletics- some schools give admissions advantages to athletes in upper class sports such as rowing and horseback riding. Thereby displacing student athletes from less priveleged backgrounds with access only to more working/middle class sports.
I think that class bias is unfair though deeply entrenched in American society. But class bias cuts both ways, in that the upper classes are excluded from admission into activities or lifestyles that are the territory of other classes. For example, rich kids may be seen as posers when they try to act like they are from the streets.
So, lets say there is a college or society or class of the rad. You know, what does it take to be rad? What's the price of radmission?
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thanks for the comments.
interesting...have you thought of any ways to develop your idea?
i know we are supposed to work with our thesis for a long time before deciding what to do with it but i cant help but wory that i wont know what to do in the end.
I'm intrigued…what was the hole that you were in?
these are beautiful.
but, you know, right??
don't want to rush you, but onto the next piece, right?
looking forward to seeing excellent work from you throughout.
g.
for wing... the hole. i lived in a series of basement apartments which were basically dark holes in the ground. Also, now I see the psychological hole I was in. Spiritual hole. Artistic. Everything.
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