Look ma, I'm a Lebenskünstler

As a kid, I wanted apocalypse. I couldn’t spell it, as old notebooks attest, but the world’s potential doom excited me. Don’t get me wrong; I still embraced the good guys’ eventual success. The world’s continuation meant another day to be a clueless only child.

Look ma, I'm a Lebenskünstler
Barbara Owen, Bullfight, 2020. Photographs, paint, birch plywood, 20h x 20w x 3d inches.