Tuesday, October 19, 2010

recent paintings



lately i've eschewed upper case. years ago i went entirely lower case, for some reason, but taking german required me to use upper case again. call it at that time a search for some singular identifying trait - now, call it a stylistic intention.
not that that's connected to the images posted here - unless someone wants to hazard a connection.
the top painting is a glimpse of a figure in motion: something like you'd see in muybridge or balla - but the images are clipped, bracketed, not presented as wholes but as fragments. fragments of space and time.
kaja silverman makes a lot out of the myth of orpheus and eurydice: coming to terms with the fragmentation of life, life's limits, we die to narcissistic involvement and become alive to relationality - we can really see each other without needing all to be totalized in our perception.
and finally a shadowy backlit figure about which i haven't brought to speech yet.

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