''Go after her. Fuck, don't sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that's what you should do if you love someone, don't wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don't let people happen to you, don't let me happen to you, or her, she's not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I'd be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can't just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone's idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.''
Baptiste Debombourg made this mural (Air Force One) of Icarus with 35000 staples. Debombourg’s works derive from the relationship he draws together between everyday things and his experiences with art. For the most part his works are sculptural, but he also creates performances, drawings, photographs, and videos. The diversity of means and materials relates to the way he creates artistic tropes out of ephemeral matter — slave objects we use and throw away, like packing material Styrofoam and cardboard, shopping catalogs, cigarette butts, staples — and support materials — the things we take for granted, like walls, security glass, and furniture, which he treats as if they were precious.
