Connor Hinson – “Untitled Portal”

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sketchbook drawings of possible portal shapes
sketch of vladimir tatlin's monument to the third international in a greenish blue
3d generated terrain photographed from below. Clumps of grass clip and glitch through a green surface
THIS IS ABOUT a politics of Desire Utopia Futurity Yearning ... and their ALREADY EXISTING models "Queer world-making, then, hinges on the possibility to map a world where one is allowed to cast pictures of utopia and to include such pictures in any map of the social. For certainly, without this critical spot on the map we ourselves become the pained and imprisoned subjects on the fast moving train Giorno describes." [Muñoz, Cruising Utopia, page 40] Is Utopia a horizon we must look towards? Or can we find Utopia by looking behind us, to the right and left and up and down, and in our present and our past, and to our neighbors "must the future and the present exist in this rigid binary? Can the future stop being a fantasy of heterosexual reproduction?" [Muñoz, Cruising Utopia, page 49] Vladimir Tatlin’s Model for Monument to the Third International is a portal. Felix Gonzalez Torres "Untitled" (perfect lovers) is a portal. PORTAL, shrine The existence of portals implies the existence of other worlds, universes, realities - novel landscapes, creatures, smells, textures, social structures. A portal might signal hope. Are we allowed to feel hope during a time of great anguish? Should we be seeking a portal? Who and what is allowed to pass through? Is a portal a filter or a sieve? Is a portal a black hole? Is a portal a door? The portal is in a constant state of becoming "It is not a question of this or that place on earth, or of a given moment in history, still less of this or that category of thought. It is a question of a model that is perpetually in construction of collapsing, and of a process that is perpetually prolonging itself, breaking off and starting up again." [Deleuze + Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 20]