What people do between 2 years? Phony celebrations! For what... for the poverty of the vast majority of the world's people? There was nothing to be celebrated when people need their necessities to live well, not celebrations.... It was time to ignore the cultural obsession of the new year's eve by doing a performance; so I tried to sleep through the celebration, and make the point that a celebration is something that is ignored. If I can recall correctly, the fireworks were successful at waking me up, but the performance between the years continued to mock the culture.

It is obviously a cultural expression of having had enough. Yes, I had enough of poverty issues, so I was drawing a line between the years. Of course, if you put aside the artistic creativity, the poverty wasn't about to go away in 2005, nor did I expect it to. This was not a recorded performance as at that time I didn't have a camera: I did the line-drawing airborne to signify the faith that so many were awarded by our great father Capital. In retrospect, I don't consider doing the airborne part necessary.

In 2005 I lost a black cat that I had for over a decade. With tears on my eyes, this is what I wrote in my notebook: Oh, Kitty Cat.... Dear Kitty Cat. It's been over four months that I have been in torture without you. It's been over four months since we parted. I had to learn to live without you. I had to learn to accept that we will not be together anymore. I've had to learn to accept that there will be not a twelfth year together. It isn't torture per se, but a feeling of a parent who lost an eleven-year old child, and can't admit the pain since it is of non-humanly importance [to be shown].... But yes, you were my child and I cry for you now. And I will be adjusting to adapt without you.... I am sorry for being negligent; I feel guilt over your loss... responsibility that should've prevailed, awareness that I lacked, and love, that at the moment I lost you was perhaps too transparent and settled over for the period of a decade. I love you and I hope you are alive and well. Here, this one is for you: (tear drops on the paper)... I dedicated this evening of importance, by silencing [all the noise] for you.

In 2006 I lost a black and white cat that I had for many years. With tears on my eyes, this is what I wrote on my notebook: Dear Sweetie Cat, I have lost you on 9-11. Without you as well, I have no more children. My happiness, if not my life, is partially ruined. You and Kitty Cat were extensions of my life just as – I am sure – I was part of yours as well. I dedicate this another terrible year in memory of you.... Your loss.... The dream I had of losing you and burying you assured me. I wish you and Kitty Cat all the best. My moment of silence will be a whole night of sleep... till I wake up in the morning again in this terrible place where you may be glad you no longer attend. Your food is still here.... I feed others with it and I miss you. Both of you. I already cherish the new generation.... You should see them; they're both white and young, happy children, just like both of you were when you too were young. Good night to both of you; I'll block out the noise outside again with memory of you. I love you both! (tear drops on the paper)

Peace is what humanity should have, not conflicts between the years, right? Well, I tried... but unfortunately the nations didn't follow up. This is what I wrote on my notebook: This one was written in between two years as a symbol of what should encompass between two years. The idea also included having a splitting headache between the years, while writing “peace” – symbolizing that the peace between the years is healing the splitting of the world, hence, my/our heads... which in turn symbolizes the healing of the globe – which is full of people who have to live in peace, or else they make themselves a headache.... Unfortunately, I thought of the splitting headache addition just seconds after I took the pill to help my headache.... It was too late, and I ended up without a headache right at 12 o'clock. Also, unfortunately, the idea of taking a photo of a white wall right in between two years, symbolizing peace on the wall that separates people also failed, since my camera just kept focusing and didn't make the picture. Well, maybe next year for the picture. This is first time in two years without a tear on new year's eve, as in 2007 I did not lose pets. Kitty Cat and Sweetie Cat – may their lives be wonderful!

Madness between the years

This is self-explanatory. We are already microwaving the ice year after year, so why don't I also speed up and contribute to this travesty: Microwaving ice... year after year... and between decades too.

Dust-raising in poverty... year after year.

Mold-raising in poverty... year after year.

Perpetuated bombing for perpetuated war... year after year. It was not in my intention to make this image blurry, but unfortunately when I was taking the long exposure, not only the exposure was too long, but also I mistakenly nudged the artwork; so, I decided for next year to retake the photo shoot... and make sure that mistakes don't happen again.

Perpetuated bombing for perpetuated fake peace... year after year. Since failing the image last year because of the accidental nudging, I retook the long exposure again. To clarify why this artwork is one of my favorite artworks: there was a period of time in which the amount of visible explosions that I drew on the artwork, day after day, were equivalent to the number of war casualties that I'd hear on the news. Unfortunately, as many of my other projects, due to time constraints I didn't follow up with the performance of adding more explosions, and this artwork has been left untouched for many years.

I am currently worth is a separate series of pictures that show my human value in terms of numbers (according to the monetary system); they are actually self-portraits – not produced the way I want them to be, but produced, again, according to what is my monetary worth in the artificial system that we live: the monetary one. Due to the inserted sarcasm toward the exploitative monetary culture, the showing my actual numerical value makes this series one of my favorite projects of all time. But in this case (between the years) I took the opportunity to show how much I am currently worth year after year.

Farting and wiping off my ass with money... year after year.

Money and credit sleeping comfortably together... year after year.... Yes, I put a bunch of them together and let them sleep between the years while I took a picture of them comfortably sleeping.

Paying my dues while I make the monetary system pay too – by ripping it off with free downloads... year after year.... It's time to pay your credit card James, so why not make it right between the years... while also ripping off the system by downloading a free movie.

Stressed and exhausted... year after year. It was coming, wasn't it... because in 2019 I actually got severely sick.

Deteriorated... year after year. Here, I actually put my tired face on the scanner.

Wars keep going on... year after year: I wrote the message between two years.

Cornered between the years of life.

Cornered again in agony... year after year.

Trying to m--------e not only mine, but all of our humanity's global problems... and come to a relief between years.... But unfortunately, the relief was only momentary – as the global problems continued.