Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the
pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of
pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes
directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly
less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste
In 2005, the artist opened
lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was
lesser; it was a greater response to the
lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this
lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a
lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the
lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted
directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a
lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the
lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a
lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a
lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the
lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a
lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's
lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the
lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling
lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that
lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a
lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is
lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the
lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular
lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put
pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the
lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a
lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the
lesser to be greater, when the
lesser is invested in its
lesser relationship to the greater.