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In the previous 1.5 months I installed two megalights (3x4 m in size each) on the streets of Skopje. The locations ensured optimum visibility of the project:

- one right in front of the Government building,

and the other on one of the busiest intersections in the center of Skopje:

The megalight includes the title of the work, the size, year and medium, i.e. Zoran Poposki, “Abstract Politics 1 (Political consensus holds key to European integration)”, digital print, 3x4 m, 2008. Also provided is the address of the website with documentation of the project: www.public-space.info to direct the viewers to learn more about the concept and process.

The documentation of the process and 10 digital prints on forex of the works in the series were exhibited at the Tocka Cultural Center in Skopje.

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very time we beckon, we call. And lo! they do appear as though they are here and now. Spirits are violent and historical; we live through and by them. For thousand years we are teaching love and peace but they would be called upon and all these good Spirit theories vanish. Among spirits Spirit of Marx is great which is haunting our lives. Haunting is historical says Derrida. We are being haunted and we are condemned to live through and in them. Every time when humanity faces problems they would be beckoned; Spirits, are you there? Hegel Says, “reason is spirit when its certainty of being all reality has been raised to truth, and it is conscious of itself as its own world, and of the world as itself. The coming-to-be of spirit was indicated in the immediately preceding movement in which the object of consciousness, the pure category, rose to be the notion of Reason.” It is this very spirit -reason that was resurrected by him as universal spirit inhabiting nations. This spirit was criticized by Marx; he analyzed those spirits -the industrialists of philosophy and art who till then had lived on the exploitation of the absolute spirit. So haunting is historical; in every juncture of history a spirit-specter is being invoked and it haunted the humans. We are mortals only spirit is immortal, it has all right to haunt us and make us immortal. We believe in spirits, in past, we live present through past. Spirits are in us, in our morality, our culture our way of life. We don't see them only we feel them. Derrida says; “specter is becoming- body a certain form of spirit”. We have learned it from our ancestors that's why we find spirit worshipers eveywhere. Many traditional Indian Baniyas invoke the spirits of their fathers and fore fathers in their houses and shops. What exactly they do by invoking the dead fathers? They are invoking their spirits (rason) that knew the art of haunting (exploiting) people. We never let our fathers die; we are habitual so we make offerings to them. We are haunted by ghosts from birth to death; one spirit exits then one enters, then one exist and another enters -this goes on and on. Why they never leave us? Because we have memories; we can not get rid of memories and history (it is also memory). Whenever we try to get rid of them, to get rid of memory they would appear and say as the ghost of Hamlet says-

Ghost- I am thy father's spirit,
doom'd for the certain term to walk the night;
and for the day confine'd to fast in fires,
till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature
Are burnt and purg'd away: but that I am forbid
to tell the secrets of prison-house;
I could a tale unfold…

and we obeyed and spirit won. Spirits are buried in graves, memories, histories. Museums and ideologies. One has to know it in order to invoke them, one should know them in order to burry them so far they could not move and roam and haunt. Marx described and diagnosed them notably that of its unifying project and tried to burry them. He commanded them but they were waiting in the folds of history to reappear and burry the spirit of Marx. It goes on thus there is no rest. Valery wrote about this problem of spirit, " the European Hamlet looks at thousends of specters. but he is an intellectual Hamlet. he meditates on the life and death of truths. his ghosts are all the objects of controversies; his remorse is all the title of our glory......if he seizes a skull, it is an illustrious skull--"whose was it? -- this one was Lionardo.....and this other skull is that of Leibniz who dreamed of universal peace. and this one was Kant qui genuit Hegel, qui genuit Marx,...Hemlet does not know what to do with all these sculls. But if he abandons them! ....will he cease to be himself?". we love spirits so we have book of deads, the theories and practices that make them appear according to wishes.


This spirit is abstract as well as concrete. It is this spirit that has taken a form of empire, it this very spirit that baptizes humanity with its morality, law, custom etc. Spirits are controlled by power, production machanism, art, literature etc.; for its possession there were wars in the history. I thorugh my art try to identify them, let them reappear on my canvases in order to bury them. Spirits command spirits this is the rule. As in france spirts ousted one another, heroes of the mind overthrew each other rapidly during the wake of modernism so it could happen here in our country too.'Time is out of joint' ... And new Ghosts are swearing behind the stage and waiting to make their entry since good art is making its exit... 

see my ghosts http://rajesh.theenlightenedworld.org/figurative2.html 

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Today I set up my second art stall, I now have a stall twice a month on the old setting of the Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK. Better set up and ready I only forgot afew photographs, but took three paintings. Yes you've guessed it, the visitors were more interested in the paintings than the photographs. None sold though!! But on the photographic side I have taken a deposite to print 'Modern Trees' to a 29cm x 29cm size, so the sale of this will cover this and the last stall rental. I will be placing 'Modern Trees' on to this web site straight after this blogg!

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