THE TWO SHALL MEET

Top Image: Reuters photograph, which appeared in The New York Times today of the damage near Christchurch.
Bottom Image: Jeff Wall's masterpiece, "Destroyed Room".
Quote: "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." -Picasso

PAUSE FOR PERFECTION

There is an inherent perfectionism to a photograph. An image representing actual life, but whose future and past are merely allusions if existent at all. The image therefore lives unencumbered, and it's reality is only for itself. All possibility for control exists within this tiny universe, for it can be as we make it. There is no narrative arch and no causality. All that is up to us to imply and to determine.

The possibility for true perfection can only be the perfection of the moment, ironically eternal.

HAUNT MY REVERIE

McDermott & McGough recently at Cheim & Read.

Sometimes quite successfully appropriating and reinterpreting some of the best photographs of all time, and using, incidentally, the same color printing process used and perfected by Paul Outerbridge.

TAKE THIS LONGING

Here I'd like to paraphrase, parse, and decontextualize Paul Bowles:

One year is like another year.
Eventually, everything will happen.

NUDE

 

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