Beyonderville 4

Alex Hamilton

Artist statement

Life is available for download right now.

It is indeed an app without filters.              Streaming in real time all around you.        Beaming from within constantly, hopefully not glitching. 

Life is about breaking clichés and stereotypes into thousands of fractions and teeny tiny little pieces.

Only to sweep it all up again and then gluing and mixing and stretching and kneading and pulling and weaving and flattening and ironing and stitching and re-configuring and gathering and figuring it out – how to build that beautiful and stronger shield again.

And then wearing it with pride for the next ride.

Life is not just a tiny shiny trinket that you collect along the way, to the play about your own life.

It is a full-on, very extra, all purpose, multi-tiered, vast and super fast crystal chandelier.

So swing from it!

Dance to its chimes.

Explore it thoroughly, properly, eternally, constantly.

Explore it’s labyrinths of contradictions, misunderstandings and cruel assumptions. 

That it is easy to follow someone else’s instructions, will certainly come to full and glaring light, if you are alright.

So cross every bridge with kindness and every sidestep or tumble with mirth And LIVE your life for goodness sake.

It is only yours to birth.