An artistic confrontation with the undead within a neo-mythic exploration of the ghoulish. An appropriation of the dead; walking, limping, and shambling, the zombie lurches awkwardly towards artistic commodification.The walking undead have been a topic of debate dating back hundreds of years, even in the Bible which refers to the dead walking the earth in [...]
The weighty dilemma of the artist who must be ”human” in addition to creating. To slay the dragon of abstraction in pursuit of a cause. A mythological figure destined to eternal recurrence. Imagine alienation and despondency as a default setting, and central theme of personal identity. Segal’s acute awareness of the “underlying” reality [...]
”All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” ( T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of [...]
”An experience, in short, that violates all logic and expectation. The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound ‘sensation of the absurd,’ and he wasn’t the only one who took them seriously. Freud, in an essay called “The Uncanny,” traced the sensation to a fear of death, of castration or of ‘something that ought [...]
”Ive explored plastics and nature in a sort of adulterated, Andy Goldsworthy-way, I suppose, but I think modern man makes his mark in the forests by the plastics he leaves behind. I spent a lot of time hiking in the Andes, and, in addition to being exposed to stunning nature, I also took in a [...]
” Confining myself strictly to Nietzsche’s æsthetic, I have been content merely to show that the highest Art, or Ruler Art, and therefore the highest beauty, — in which culture is opposed to natural rudeness, selection to natural chaos, and simplicity to natural complexity, — can be the flower and product only of an aristocratic [...]
Giorgio De Chirico ( 1888-1978 ) played with the conventions of painting to unsettling effect, intending to create enigmatic images that bridged the chasm between rationality and metaphysics. Perspective was one of his primary tools for this, and he would often make the ground plane “point” well above the horizon, play with the relative size [...]
If there is one emotion that impacts upon men more than any other it is fear. Fear of being seen as feminine or womanly, fear of intimacy, fear of being vulnerable, fear of not being powerful enough, fear of not being in control, fear of losing, fear of rejection, fear of not being a real man. [...]
Arby’s commercial where the fast food outlet plays a central role in a husband/wife roleplay fantasy. She dresses as an employee to serve her husband an Arby’s meal. The ad does satire men and their fantasies though there is something unsettling about the kinky burger and fast food erotica, in the sense that the woman, actress [...]
Early Jim Henson from the late 1950′s early 1960′s featuring a primitive version of muppet Kermit The Frog as spokesman for Wilkins Coffee. The expressions and speech synchronizations are well articulated, and insulate the impact of the slapstick violence. An early attempt to combine the theory of ”hard sell” and humour. The violent interlude is [...]
