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Tag: Jeff Wall
Sunday poem
Rereading Frost by Linda Pastan Sometimes I think all the best poems have been written already, and no one has time to read them, so why try to write more? At other times though, I remember how one flower in a meadow already full of flowers somehow adds to the general fireworks effect as you…
Take away the verbal description –
— and you’ll have to relate to the picture as a poem an image of an image: Jeff Wall: After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue, 1999-2000 (my image is shot at the exhibition Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996-2013 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which I visited in the spring of 2014) In the following video…
in preparation
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson In the coming week I’m off to Denmark to see several exhibitions, and review a few of them. I will go to Louisiana at Sjælland (Zealand) (a favorite museum of mine) to see Peter Doig. There is also…
Pictures Like Poems
I have this ongoing project of picturing my everyday at AN IMAGE A DAY. If I was a genius my pictures might have looked a bit more like the once Jeff Wall are making. Watch this: Jeff Wall | Louisiana Channel. Jeff Wall A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993
(creative?!???) MESS, or: a state of confusion and disorderliness
I’ve started working on a short essay on Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. the book keeps popping up in my imagination, so I’ve decided to try to write myself through my fascination. As for now I haven’t got any written stuff to show you, but this is what my desk looks like at the moment: in comparison…
Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall: Artists need material limitations I have never read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, but I have for a very long time been in love with Jeff Wall’s appropriation of it. Jeff Wall: After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Preface, (1999-2001) * First shown at Documenta 11, After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Preface, (1999-2001),…
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