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Art is what fulfills.

Art is the joy in externalizing a familiar or unfamiliar part of yourself.

It’s the shitty and the astounding.

It’s within the attempts and the failures.

It’s not giving up on yourself.

Because when you are an artist you are working your way out to the world.

And that’s a helluva job. It won’t be clear waters. It’s won’t be a picnic in the park.

It will be lots of that bitter confusion, the blood sweat, the changes that are just too rapid to comprehend. It will be messy and beautiful. And when you look back upon all you made, all you became, all the nuances your life has achieved. The lightheartedness and the humanity will overwhelm you. And you will realize. That as cliche as it may sound. Everything is exactly the way It’s supposed to be.

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Natusha Croes - VAV2

M - Let me carry that.

W - You what!?

M - Let me take your bag, I'm stronger.

W - Well I'm younger.

M - Are you trying to be a strong indipendent woman?

W - So we're starting that argument again?

M - Sorry! I'm just trying to be nice.

W - We're past the old fashion days.

M - Now what's wrong with being old fashion?

W - There's more then one reason.

M - C'mon tell me one then.

W - I've said it and I'll say it again. You have to be modern in a modern society and what you think is wrong and it's silly.

M - You're closeminded in your openmindness so there's alot you miss.

W - Like what? Please tell me. You know it all with a willy.

M - You say that what I think about women is silly but you never put yourself in my way of thinking.

W - Because it's stinking.

M - Or in anyone elses for that matter...

W - You want me to do that rather? Think like Strindberg for a while or adapt Henry the 8ths style?

M - Well about him; that's what I mean with looking at the vision of other...

W - But why!?

M - Well, you don't exactly know what happend maybe he had a dominant mother. Maybe he liked his servants more than the women he was going to marry...

W - What are you trying to say? That Henry the 8th was gay!?

M - If he would have been he becomes more understandable even his actions night be more reasonable he was just a (too powerfull) victim of his time.

W - Hah! So you mean in that case decapitating women isn't a real crime...

M - No! I'm just trying to have a look inside his head.

W - That won't help the women that are dead.

M - Oh, they were probably sluts anyway...

W - And wasn't he?

M - Whom Henry? Of course not!

W - So only a women can be slut. What if they were just having fun?

M - Isn't that something they should do with their own man...

W - This is like "The whore and the hypocrite".

M - What's that shit?

W - Wait! First give me your jacket and then I'll explain

M - I know, it's getting colder... Of course, I'll lay around your shoulder.

W - You're a whore and I'm a hypocrite I can't think of anything more disgusting than that That you must have, just to have That I sleep around too but condemn the way you live and what you give That I think that you break again love but what I do is just play and silly. But just the thought of someone naked hugs your body and my double moral without remorse gives me anger, indigestions and blurrs.

M - Differences are there to be! So why don't you just let them be and we'll all be happy and healthy for ever and ever and ever and ever...

W - I can't and I won't and I love you, I do, even if you make me go mad.

M - Well the fact that you don't know your place is quite sad.

W - Give me that hat! Sad isn't always bad.

M - How did that pop into your head?

W - Lady with the lamp? Lots of people dead sad but good. Joan of arc didn't actually behave the way french women should.

M - They play on emotions, that's what women do.

W - Well should I name you other clever ones too!? Like Hypatia of Alexandria that invented the library?

M - Oh. She got thorn in four pieces now, didn't she?

W - Or Eleanor of Aquitaine, ruled france, organised a crusade...

M - Hah! Now you're speaking against yourself! Wasn't she the grand grand mother of Henry the 8th?

W - Don't talk shite.

M - Come here!

W - No! but I don't want to!

M - You've got a nice little face my dear. To be fair with that bum you have to.

W - Oh do I? Do I? Don't you think it's too fat?

M - Hah! Don't you break your pretty little head over that.

W - Do you like my new dress?

M - Yes, you always dress to impress.

W - But your not even looking.

M - No.

W - No, no, no, no! You're supposed to be looking when I tell you so.

M - Take it of then, don't be shy...

W - I don't want to why? Well if you take yours of then.

M - Again and again and again, will you ever quit.

W - Look what modern metrosexual man I've turned you into.

M - It's really fun to say that to you too.

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Spike Raquette & Christien Bax - VAV4 & Image & Language