HELL BOUND ON A SHIP OF FOOLS
Hell, the devils and the torments of the damned. From fire and brimstone Christianity, to the murky byways of Judaism’s deepest recesses, the horrifying separation of moral wheat from the chaff and the...
View ArticleLAYERS & LAYERS OF DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS
Quite brilliantly, John Ruskin wrote of the Seven Lamps of Architecture; the seven lamps ,”lamps” meaning that which illuminates the mind or soul of sacred architecture. They are: sacrifice, truth,...
View Article$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or...
View Articledisruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination
Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten....
View Articleguilt and forgiveness: “i” for you “thou” for me…
…and a bell jar in between.Innocence. Does it really exist? Or is it just a virtual good to be bartered with Faustus as another bad deal. Contextually, it is more about the ways individuals manufacture...
View Articlecry him a river
Varying degrees of madness. A creepy but vulnerable figure escaping his awkward urges with bloodhounds on his trail. It is an intangible sliver of hope. Peter Lorre gives pause for a reflection on the...
View Articlefinite voices
Subjective rationality is a very elusive term; an alternative conception of rationality that could shed light and propose some resolutions to the pathologies of modern society. Its basis is a belief in...
View Articleeasel does it: I’ll paint with my donkey
Old easels never die, they just drag themselves into the woods on their last legs to become recycled, resurrected again to serve the aims of art. When painting came off the wall and onto the floor, the...
View Articlethe hidden look: looks within looks
In a way, Zionism is explainable in its zeal to create a “new jew” ; an act of nihilism to consign to the dust-bin of history the entire diasporic experience of jewish life pulverized by the atomic...
View Articlelearning from the best
Just to advise that the Nazi version of the death camp, the forced labor camp, did not insidiously arise out of thin air, out of a vacuum. The precedent had already been well established; the mold in...
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