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CAN'T GET IT OUT OF HIS HEAD

Melancholy, to Robert Burton, the philosopher of melancholy, could encompass many states of mind; mild regret, peaceful contemplation, bitter grief, the hatching of  pleasing visions, jealous torments and dementia: I’ll change my state with any wretch, Thou canst from gaol … Continue reading

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ENEMIES IN ARMS

In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading

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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT

”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading

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WHAT DREAMS MAY COME

Madness, love and mysticism. Perhaps everything you always wanted to know about Dali, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Pictorial Surrealism. Salvador Dali was immersed in the conquest of the irrational, infinite and likely futile search for the unconscious and its meaning. His … Continue reading

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So Long & Thanks For All The Fins

 Symbolically and historically , fish have held similar interpretations to different cultures.  Its watery domain is sometimes understood to be  a symbol of the subconscious and depths of knowledge in addition to a feminine mystery and the unknown. In the … Continue reading

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