At this point, even though the art section has over 10000 uploaded images, my website contains only a small fraction of my total artwork; most of it is still written on notes, as art ideas that I need to edit, create, and publish.... Before you dive into the different artworks which are separated by genres, I want to clarify that, more or less I consider most of my work (with the exception of some caricatures, pictures, and so forth), to be bulked under the grand category of a performance art; I would even say that unless I am asleep at night, during the day I am doing one giant – my life – performance, where I am augmenting my own life to fit the criteria of my socially-oriented agendas. (I didn't come up with the my life phrase until 2002, even though my motivation to shift my art from surrealistic and dadaistic to socially-conscious, had already been going on since the late 1990s.) Think of the autobiographical information that I disclose in this website as a clarifier about my grand performance art that contains various other artworks. But even though this grand idea is so broadly enveloping, I don't really view it as something that important, as I prefer to pay more attention on the individual artworks that are contained within my life.... Within that grand performance is a blend of many other performances and conceptual artworks that may not have a solid boundary in between to be classified as performance or conceptual artwork. But despite that I bulk many of my artworks within the blend of performance and conceptual artwork, for the purpose of easing the viewing experience, I have divided the separate artworks to various art categories; I am doing this for the enhanced viewing experience even though I know that a “caricature” for me may not be that, but just a cog in the machine where I am driving my socially-oriented agendas. But I am deliberately compelling myself to call the “caricature” a caricature, because I don't want to be confusing my viewers who for the most part wouldn't be interested in the depths and sediments of my philosophical blabber. My initial intentions to promote my work only to art critics, art historians, philosophers, and social activists, still stands, but I also understand that I will not be lucky in this aspect, and most of my artworks will end up being viewed by the average “art lovers.” So, again, just to ease the viewing experience on this website, I am separating the artworks into different genres even though, in my head, I am not really separating them. But in addition to how I view most of my artwork – as a giant performance that tries to influence people to become like me – I also, once in a while, alert the viewers that what they are viewing may not be what they are viewing. Why, for example, a picture would be bulked under performance art? Because when I string together many pictures, particularly if they are from a series, I am augmenting the frozen time depicted in the picture by also including the action that is involved in the collection of the pictures.... As I mentioned in my Main introduction, with exceptions, most of my art has an agenda attached to it, and there is no day that my mind will not be preoccupied with it to remind me that I need to keep pushing the infiltration... which is a performance art by itself.... Let's look at another example – my art project which contains the highest amount of pictures: “Modern” Art... and the wasted time creating it while “modern” life killed quite a bit many. I started this project in 2006 and I plan to keep going with it. It can also be found in the Art Series page. How could this project be bulked into the performance art category for social cause? I stumble onto a scene that I like: the scene is a combination of space, shapes, and colors that I like. I take a picture which I may edit later and also use for graphic design purposes. The making of that single picture, plus the combination of all the pictures in the series is, as the title clarifies: “Modern” Art... and the wasted time creating it while “modern” life killed quite a bit many: that makes it a performance art for mocking our culturally-followed artistic obsessions that have no social benefit, but just satisfaction of retinal pleasure. You may ask, why would art have to deal with resolving social issues? Why not... if the corporatocracy – the combination of business and government – don't bother with resolving social issues? If they don't, you do: You step up to the task and show the world a way of living which does not prevent people from the access to their living necessities. If business, government, and their politics, don't do it, then why not art: not the “modern” art, but the socially-oriented art. In 1982, as a form of “art,” Joseph Beuys with his team planted 7000 trees as a Social Sculpture, and he also created the Free International University; by the way, the Free International University is probably my favorite art project of all time by an artist other than me. It has zero aesthetics: just education and enlightenment for better living.... So, since art has no boundaries, nothing stops you from utilizing it for social cause.... My Between 2 Years ongoing project is also a series in which a single picture with long exposure is taken between 2 years: the depicted action is a photographic recording of our lives between the years. In this case, I would say that the Between 2 Years “photo” is also a Performance art.... At first sight, my artwork, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace may not seem like a performance art, but the fact that I would once in a while add more explosions on the artwork (according to the number of people killed that we hear on the news), makes it also a performance art..... In this introductory page to the varieties of my art projects, I will also take the opportunity to introduce some of my Favorite artworks. So, with the inclusion of many kinds of artworks that are not similar to each other, thematically, this section will be quite dispersed. You will immediately notice that on a lot of my conceptual artworks I use text; text for me is very important – clarifier of the message that I am trying to convey. Although I wasn't particularly influenced by the artworks of Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer, in the creation of my conceptual artworks I did pickup their simple style of showing an image, and clarifying it with text.
