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when my ship comes in

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

The perceived incompetence of the ship’s captain.The image of the sinking ship always conjures up other traumatizing images of death by sea. Most notably by one of the pivotal paintings of romanticism,  the 1819  “Raft of the Medusa” by Theodore … Continue reading →

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burying the dead ends

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dave

The avant-garde revolution was over. Ironically, their work also signified the end of avant-gardism  and the onset of post-modernism. The avant-garde had become history. Its contradictions, the emptiness, the triumph of form over substance, essentially its transformation into rote kitsch … Continue reading →

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corpse poetics

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading →

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soliloquy: photos of american monologues

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Dave

Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation.  Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading →

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