Category: artworks
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unexpected encounters #13: sun throat cut
The body will continue to demonstrate mortality as the fate of all humans. It is for this reason that any reference to human animality gravely affects those who dream of its antithesis. They take offence not only at any mention of animality in life, but in science, literature, and the arts as well, as this…
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unexpected encounters #10: the arrival of modernity
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. Karl Marx, Capital,…
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unexpected encounters #7: aesthetics
Beauty will be convulsive, or it will not be. André Breton, Nadja Greece’s government has said the country is “turning a page” after Eurozone member states reached an agreement on the final elements of a plan to make its massive debt pile more manageable. The government spokesman, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, hailed “a historic decision” that meant “the Greek people…
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unexpected encounters #1—the gaze
self portrait with Santa Lucia, Siena, March 2001 What too often gets elided from current gaze talk is the possibility of looking as an act of ambivalence. As Frantz Fanon wrote in “Black Skin, White Masks,” his psychoanalytic study of colonialism, even the oppressor’s gaze can be a site of uncertainty; no one’s viewpoint—or projection—is entirely secure…
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window shopping #7 (Prague +)
All images shot in June 2004 in Czech Republic. Location is Prague unless otherwise indicated. #4 + 5 Karlovy Vary #2 Mariánské Lázně, #6 Karlovy Vary #2 Karlovy Vary
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redder yet
1-2 Tokyo, September 2011 #3 Calgary #4-6 Mexico City, February 2018 #1-2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 New York City, January 2011 #4 + 6 Johor Bahru, February 2023 #5 Singapore, February 2023 #1 Siem Reap, February 2016 #2-6 Mexico City February 2018 all remaining images Mexico City, February 2018
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curves #3
Tokyo, September 2010 #1 + 5 Frankfurt #2–4 Berlin March 2016 #1 Calgary #2–6 Mexico City February 2018 Mexico City, February 2018
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are, bure, boke #4
Tokyo, September 2011 #1–2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 Singapore, February 2016 4–6 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 Frankfurt, March 2016 #1–4 Frankfurt #5–6 Berlin March 2016 Berlin, March 2016
Camera lucida 