Adrián Boutureira's Labyrinth: Raise the Veil

January 1, 1996

Raise the Veil

Body worship trying to sell me
I'm not buying the lies you tell me
Look quite good, but it's all rotten
once was human, now forgotten

You are burning your desire

in consumer madness' fire

Underneath the hot disguise
melted minds show frozen eyes

Radioactive, lifeless ocean

oil tankers, sickness motion

Plenty of money spent on bombs

Not enough on saving farms

Global North needs it all
Global South takes the fall

Pay loan interests chopping forests

twisted business, deadly honest

Raise the Veil, Raise the veil

Take a good look without fear

Raise the veil, Raise the veil

The life we bought is not real

Don't run from what you see for only truth sets us free

hypocrisy and lies is where humanity dies

Adrian Boutureira- 1996

Hear these lyrics in a song:
http://www.tindeck.com/album/hmydq

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Labyrinth's Introduction

My original intention for this space was as a simple archiving tool that could provide easy, organized access to what I felt were some of my key creative writing pieces.

At first, I was amply satisfied with this objective, as the task of reviewing, editing and producing for public view a very large and random body of my ancient work seem tedious, and did not appeal to me.

Very soon into the project though, I actually began to really enjoy all the experiences associated with the work; the editing, the production, the very state of mind of creating again. So, I decided then that I wanted to put together a real collection of my work, not just archive a few key pieces.

This decision obviously turned this project into a much more time consuming, creatively challenging and seriously auto-biographical journey for me. It also opens a window to the world into the intimate labyrinth that I feel constitutes the various phases of my thought, life experience, creative development and lived emotions.

For those of you who know me well, little here will seem unfamiliar. Some of these pieces are mere quasi-literary representations of the same ideas and rants that I have advanced my whole life. Others are stories and sentiments you probably also know me to have experienced or you might even be the lead inspiration for...Still, I hope you will find something here that might surprise, inspire, shock or piss you off accordingly, as any half-decent artistic effort always should.

For those who don't know me, and ended up in the labyrinth after making the wrong turn somewhere in cyberlandia, I also hope you too will find something here worth your gracious visit.

Structurally, this is meant to function more as a gallery than a blog. There is not going to be any real chronological order in what I post. Today 1986, tomorrow 2010...I expect that I will be digging stuff up and working on this project over the next few months, if not years, so visit often and explore.

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Adrián Boutureira

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January 1, 1996

Raise the Veil

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