You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices...
Read More“Caught a Lite Sneeze”, Tori Amos
Musical Mondays: Caught a Lite Sneeze by Tori Amos As an high school teenager trapped in a household that was far too conservative for my tastes, Tori Amos was emblematic of female empowerment that took on religion, the patriarchy, and of course, sex. Boys for Pele, her third solo studio album explores her relationship with men and masculinity after her...
Read MoreBlue Highways
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk — times neither day nor night — the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it’s that time...
Read MoreFrancesca Woodman
The work of Francesca Woodman is illuminating, yet at the same time there is something inherently spectral and obscure about her images. When you look at her photographs you feel as though someone is telling you a secret. They are letting you in on the depths of something, all the while flooding your view with light. Her surreal, fantastic photographs...
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While I don’t remember and can’t find the title of this piece by Scott Mutter, I can tell you how it was done. Sort of. Mutter, as I understand it, takes two negatives and puts them together in the dark room. I believe he typically takes the pictures himself, but he has also used images of space (I’m gonna...
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