Mostly Void. Partially Stars.

Kerry Guinan

Artists, 2019

Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Dominican Republic.

Images: Photograph of 3 canvases from the series in the solo exhibition 'Our Celestial Sphere' at Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2019.

Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick Institute of Technology, and Fingal County Council. Images: Pallas Projects/Studios & Kerry Guinan.

(Original caption from artist’s website)

And after contacting the Irish Museum of Modern Art and being referred to a curator (!), they provided me with the caption information that was used when displaying the work for the Staying With The Trouble exhibition in 2025 (thank you so much IMMA staff!!)

Artists is a series of blank, square canvases, each signed by a staff member in the manufacturing facility that produced the canvases in the La Romana Free Trade Zone, the Dominican Republic. The manufacturer, Daler Rowney, is a popular supplier of art materials in Ireland. The artist coordinated the project remotely by contacting the facility manager. The signatories volunteered to take part in the project upon invitation. They are Johan Rivera, Carlos Roa, Aneury Rondon, and Orlando Saldivar.

HARMFUL GAY STEREOTYPES EMBODIED BY MOHG

lives in sewer

kidnaps children actually he was cleared of this one

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

if it's a skill, there's rules you can learn

if it's an art, rules are not your concern

make it fucked up or you won't make it

if it's already broken, you can't break it

anything can be fixed with gorilla glue

If you make a mistake (and we all do), you can quickly correct yourself and then add the word digo after it

Literally, digo is the present tense yo form of decir "to say", so you essentially are saying "I say" but it comes out like "I should say" or "I mean"

As in... if make a small mistake you can just quickly correct it that way. Like if you accidentally say "una planeta" you can just say un planeta, digo as your correction

The digo is your way of being like "oops I made a mistake, I know it was a mistake and I misspoke here is the actual thing"

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Quite literally it's "to want to say", and usually understood as "to mean" as in "to intend (to say)"

This can also be a way to adjust what you're saying, at the end of sentences

You will also see it used in the beginning or the middle of sentences... like if you've said something already and want to clarify you can begin your sentence with quiero decir que... "I mean that..." or "my intention in saying that is..."

This is frequently used to mark the intention of your words

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As a small aside because of the differences in English/Spanish - English will often use querer decir as "to mean"

Just be aware that there's also a different word for "to mean" that's significar for "to mean"

querer decir is "to mean" as in talking about the intention or clarifying what someone is saying or what a certain statement means

significar is "to mean" often in the sense of defining a word or expression or phrase

You can see them both used in 3rd person like eso quiere decir que "that means" and eso significa "that means" when talking about what the consequences of something will be or how to best explain a situation

But you will rarely if ever use significo when you mean quiero decir

Using significar in present tense would be like trying to define yourself, while quiero decir is a justification or explanation of the words you're using

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It's just a case of the Spanish having two separate words for something English has just one word for