This was the first double of the body. From having been an assurance of immortality, it becomes the uncanny harbinger of death. Sigmund Freud: The Uncanny The horse's bell rings silently. Death is approaching. The two women who are the same…
From the outside we see items from other works thast we have seen before — a crescent moon, clouds, sea, the house from The Em- pire of Light. We see & think about them, a deliberate act, not the unconscious saying "Look! This is what you'r…
Birds sing songs of death to a dying forest, the scores written across their bodies. The sky is there somewhere, watching over the wood as it petrifies. There is no vis- ible blood this time, unlike the painting with the same name, done in
Is hard to tell if the man is watching the sun set, or is staring at the sun. Un- likely the former, even though the beauty of the landscape as a setting might well in- duce a cry from the heart. In favor of the latter are the dire stories
Where does one start & the other finish? & surely they're mispositioned — she should be behind him, the proverbial power behind the throne, as it were. Or should she? After all, she was in front of him so often as he painted her — at the pi…
There is a scene in David Lynch's Twin Peaks which replicates the layout offered here. Not quite the same — Lynch's characters seem to have more intelligence than these stereotypical burglars, & the three-branched candelabra that supports t…
In times of war, even the mighty violincello feels a need to hide. Such a pity that they didn't choose a more subtle neighborhood in which to conceal themselves.
No breasts, but two noses. We've seen them before — or at least a singular one. Then androgynous; but with the accompaniments here are much more feminine. It's the lips that give the separate pieces gender, as they bridge the noses. Apart f…
A girl's night in, or so it seems. There's a movie about that, but not about life in a cubist setting. A phrase from the movie — "together we make up the perfect woman" — seems at first look to have little relevance here, & yet the setting
I have brought you this tree of flowers. It is one I had prepared earlier, before I knew your tastes, & what colors you liked, & did perfumes or particular scents play havoc with your sensors. Some may regard this as exemplary forethought o…
A painting in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem by the Belgian artist René Magritte has been damaged by a 5-year-old boy wielding a pine cone. CNN: 6.12.2026 Battlements on top, the rock beneath on which it's built, the ample space between the…
It is a platform in space. High- lighted, to further differentiate it from the dark abyss that laps its edge. There are few stars a- bout, almost as an afterthought, even though they are what would be expected in this environment. What is s…