...a deathly serenade...

everywhere a sermon…Devil…Good….Sure.
Disbelief, why not? But if there is this belief, who
started the riddle before the riddle got riddled? I
can only respect the General that is on the front
line in the war. In the sense that I don't believe in
doing the hokey-pokey unless you are at a dance
with a beautiful women…so people that are not
loyal are the people I like to make realise the
humour in their ways and have a laugh with
them…you know? I would like to play with you…
you in the universal sense….
Interviewer
Very original. What inspires such an interesting
view of your Art?
Franz Bema
I say: I am with you when you howl, I am with you
when your infants are terrible, if I can say, I too
have felt the feeling of a Journey to the End of
The Night. To play, someone has the be the bigger
person for the big Utopia, the delight, the sublime
and the real beauty. Boom for real, to quote
Basquiat, yes, boom for real. That is what inspires
my Art."
Interviewer
Not to go back to Religion, a topic I know you
despise talking about, but you have quite a few
allusions to Jesus Christ in your work, in your
book, Vanity. Ares for example?
Franz Bema
Look, for me I'm no saint. I think about the
forgotten man, from my time living inner city
London. Someone has to be the forgotten
man..you know?
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