Tag Archives: Robert Lepage

kahlo: sensuous transmutation and visionary longing

Undaunted. Defiant. Frida Kahlo is the textbook case of suffering for her art and transforming that suffering into art. Still, after all these years, her reputation seems to absorb new strands of thought which only augment the interest and intrigue … Continue reading

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”

Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender.  Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading

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X-TREME COMPOSITION & AGONY OF INDIFFERENCE

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ( Elie Wiesel … Continue reading

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Small Little Freaks & Urban Rumors

Is bigger always better. Are the large stone figures on Easter island. ….puppets? Shambling along the shoreline of Easter Island with its stone statues  cradled under his arms. Germut, the nephew of the biblical Goliath was arrested by 300 crewman … Continue reading

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