CRICHTON ATKINSON
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pleasing
By Crichton Atkinson 
Future Tenant Gallery 819 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
futuretenant.org

IN THIS PAINTING:
A YELLOW ROSE
'YOU ARE FORGIVEN'
UNCONDITIONAL KINDNESS
YOUTHFULNESS
YOUR LAST BREATH
A SILENT LAUGH
TIME ON YOUR SIDE

Words are flexible agents that belong to all of us; like plastic, language molds to our meaning as the diluted imprint of the will. These propositions for peace will be cast uniquely by the consensual relationship of the spectators with the work. Like all language, these words are without a resting place, they travel between the page and the multiplicity of imaginations without ever finding a final author or the capability of being right. This work intends to provide a situation that will either be accepted or denied by its audience. The interpreters are given command over the artist who was relieved of her duty after drawing a statement, a proposition with very few theatrical elements or ritualistic markings.  
pleasing enjoys peaceful overtones while returning religious images to linguistics.  We cannot forget that to a certain extent all religion uses aesthetics, somewhere between a platform and devotional objects we imbue the power of contemplation, vision, and personal relief.  Because these values are important to our social nature and personal freedom, this work attempts to provide an anarchic, and therefore rhizomatic plane of entrance into the caverns of language.  This work can be translated depending on the geography of its exhibition.
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  • Home
  • Video
    • Buku Love
    • The First Book
    • Monologues for Orpheus
    • The Keeper
    • Ownly
    • Remember this Film Forever
  • Performance
    • The Keeper
    • (A)(U)N-AMERICAN - Performance
    • Knowledge is Memory - Performance
    • pleasing - Performance
  • Theater
    • NARRATOR
    • Oedipus after Colonus - Theater
    • The Bond of Desire
    • The Creatures of Nostalgia
    • Blue Moon (True)
    • Theater Collaboration >
      • John Cassavetes 'Husbands'
      • Last Tango in Paris
      • Beware of a Holy Whore
      • The Distance from Here
      • The Madness of Day
      • The Rub
  • Nothing Space Collective
  • Performer
    • The Missing Book of Spurs
    • Sparticus Chetwynd
    • The Box in the Plastic Bag
    • Positions
    • River of Fundament
    • Exquisite Corpse Project
  • Curator/Educator
    • Nothing Space Director and Curator >
      • Nothing Show
      • De-Script
      • De-Script Poetry Reading and Conversation
      • Shadow Sign: Dance Performance
      • Apparition or Illumination: Videoart from the Under Ground
      • Sketches: Propositions and Potentials
      • F.Y.T. Co. and MUSEUM1
    • New Museum and Dia:Beacon >
      • New Museum
      • Dia:Beacon
    • Dia:Beacon Artist in Residence
  • Contact and Bio
    • Press and Grants