Blog and Stories (40)

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” 
― H.P. Lovecraft

Nightmares

During this hideous time, the nightmares begin to bloom. The tourists (freed after the long lock downs) flock to the forest and other gloomy…

By: Beat Kuert

No Qualification Needed

(without words)

By: Beat Kuert

A mass in honor of Cthulhu

For the past few days I have been working immersed in the Malstrom of blindly doing. A kind of religious ceremony overtook me! A…

By: Beat Kuert

One and All / Eins und Alles

Those who want to pursue sensible thoughts about the world, life and the transience in these days and weeks (hopefully not years) must first…

By: Beat Kuert

False images made by others

When I first came to Pecking, I took three thousand photos in one day. I shot my way through pecking, I moved frame by…

By: Beat Kuert

Love Song for a Black Hole

The black hole is linked to many important elements of my work and my philosophy. In this picture I am fascinated by the fragile female person…

By: Beat Kuert

Memory of a Dream

Sometimes the past things disappear in a fog that embraces them and turns them into dreams. "Faultline / Timeline" was an installation that I…

By: Beat Kuert

The primordial soup

The first version of my video "Ever hungry like a flame" has ended. Something is slowly growing up. The first versions of my work…

By: Beat Kuert

Art should rule the world

At a time when scientists and politicians are arguing over their sovereignty of interpretation and with their constantly conflicting expertise fighting for new positions…

By: Beat Kuert

Love letter written in time of social distancing

The flood of news about the corona pandemic has troubled me and made me build a dam against it. It was a lot easier…

By: Beat Kuert

against God Zeus and the System

Powerful thunderstorms all night long! They barely let me sleep. Thunderstorms purify the air, they say, and maybe a lot more. Hopefully that's right!…

By: Beat Kuert

Now I crouch in the night ...

I dreamed of a bomb that I wanted to detonate in the middle of our house! The house and the whole family should fly in…

By: Beat Kuert

Please kill the distance!

 Please kill the distance!I need something to crawl in or something to devour.I want to feel it in my body, my stomachbetween my fingers,…

By: Beat Kuert

I am my picture

I am my picture The ten commandments state: "You should not make up your own image of God or depict anything in the sky…

By: Beat Kuert

Horse Whisperer or concerns with women

Many thoughts and ideas go through my head. Fortunately they have nothing to do with the Corona Virus. Above all, I am concerned with…

By: Beat Kuert

The virologists, the black priests of the Corona mass

The virologists, the black priests of the Corona mass, try to give their orgy new food every day. They feed their holy fire with…

By: Beat Kuert

"Ici-bas" and "là-bas" or how to seek redemption from his present

Two french words very meaningful to me! I don´t like the french language because all French teachers in the world have conspired against me.

By: Beat Kuert

Dream-reporter

"According to a new Paris study, smokers are 75% less likely to have serious effects from the virus." We live in a time when…

By: Beat Kuert

The reality of others

An avalanche of thoughts has overwhelmed me in the last few Corona-days. I try to free myself from the confusion of thoughts in order…

By: Beat Kuert

Where is my homland

Where is my home? I dont know. I have carried this question around with me for years without finding a satisfactory answer. What I…

By: Beat Kuert

I sink between the "Corona-mountains" that pile up around me.

The longer this corona lockdown lasts, the more I sink between the mountains that pile up around me. Mountains are not dead matter. They…

By: Beat Kuert

I'm tired of being a good guy

A lot comes to mind but I lack the ease. The longer I think, the heavier the lightness becomes. I don't want to write beautiful…

By: Beat Kuert

I learned to look

I walked throug the forest this morning. If you stare at the ground while walking, as I did today with my express march on…

By: Beat Kuert

If God had to sell his creation

If God had to sell his creation, man, he would have made it friendlier, smarter and happier. No! God doesn't know an artist's worries,…

By: Beat Kuert

All faith in man shaken

Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1922: "Here was a generation... grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man…

By: Beat Kuert

Petra Pan

Petra Pan I would like to invent a character like Sherlock Holmes, Lara Croft or Micky Maus, who would then take over the world and hide itself in all brains. Of course it should have something subversive like Peter Pan, he wanted to seduce me to fly in…

By: Beat Kuert

Life-Block means terror

Life-Block means terror. The WritersBlock, on the other hand, is boring. Life-Block prevents you from dreaming. It’s Brainwashing! The mind is being cleaned up. What…

By: Beat Kuert

Photography that corresponds to our soul

“I paint and live from the hope that one day - soon - there will be photography that corresponds to our soul - and…

By: Beat Kuert

My Ex Voto Story

When I came to Mexico a long time ago, it seemed to me that I jumped straight into life with a dive. All…

By: Beat Kuert

The Nothing-Box

 Nothing is the most important thing - because it is nothing! This is my Nothing Box from which I take out a handful of…

By: Beat Kuert

Lies are moving the universe

17/07/2020 (2015) The Chaos is dark and black and there is no possibility to see. But in the moment when the motion goes ahead,…

By: Beat Kuert

Fight the Night!

To whom it may concern 01/12/2015 I create my future…. but nothing arises !! Why? Is it too dark around me or is there…

By: Beat Kuert

 The appeal of an underground movie

17/02/2016 “The appeal of an underground movie is not to the understanding.” (Andy Warhol in Popisme). My whole life I created my works in…

By: Beat Kuert

light of the underworld

22/02/2016 The Hermit If you are searching on Google for “Black” and you look at the images you will see a fantastic thing, a page full…

By: Beat Kuert

Brown is beautiful!

Brown is not a color, but a state, a state of mind. Gentleman never wear brown, it is said. One can extend this and…

By: Beat Kuert

The big one

18/03/2016 (Great Wave of Kanagawa) The big one I wonder, are the great times like the Sixties or the twenties the start of a…

By: Beat Kuert

It needs a fool to save the world

19/07/2016 If I could choose between two bad solutions I would choose Trump. In a crazy time it needs a fool to save the world!…

By: Beat Kuert

Take a holiday from reality!

20/09/2016 “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." (Aldous Huxley, Brave…

By: Beat Kuert

To dance till I drop

"Find what you love and let it kill you!" (Bukowski) To dance till I drop As I get older, the more I have…

By: Beat Kuert

July 2019

“This month is something of a conundrum for you, Scorpio. On the one hand, you are focused of career goals, while on the…

By: Beat Kuert