Monthly Archives: April 2019

Foot to Mouth

Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Biscello

It’s less a fetish and more of a — I’m sorry, what was I saying?

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As Within

Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Biscello

Softly, so softly, the world converted itself to cite how she felt.

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Solar Passive

Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Biscello

As if luring us to become one with the sun– Melting optional.   (Artwork by Edvard Munch)

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Three Cheers for Charlie

Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Biscello

Happy birthday (April 16th), Charles Spencer Chaplin! Slapstick’s trinity, a monotheistic gag– Salvation’s last laugh.   The Great Dictator? Charlie, in jest, plants his foot– no ass too big.   Winter, starving clown, no disciples to be found– this, the … Continue reading →

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Proxy Among the Spiders

Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Biscello

Review of Jean Fremon’s Now, Now, Louison, a “life imagined” of the artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeois. There once was a little girl named Louise. Sweet, endangered, watchful and tragic, this little girl, who in her permeable nomenclature was also … Continue reading →

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Innocent When You Dream

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

Hidden, in full view of shadows well-fitted to be worn out at day’s end, the young girl bared herself to the woman she would become, years before love lifted then wrecked her sworn passage home.   (Image of Marguerite Duras, … Continue reading →

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Case in Point

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

Images tell us the right kind of nothing, how one way or another you as a witness will prove unreliable in a world governed by parallels.   (Image from Lost Highway)

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And the Chairs Watched Silently

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

An awful rowing, this sense of going nowhere, with home the fool’s goal.   (Artwork by Giorgio di Chirico)

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Revere

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

How often we miss or overlook the value of this life’s most radiant jewels? A soul, birthing its own transit through long winding braids of symmetry, and basking through the reign of perish.   (Artwork by Gustav Klimt)

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By Turns

Posted on April 15, 2019 by John Biscello

Those who fall from the moon bear the length of their exile with tender lyrical turns of being, a fool’s minuet, chaste as it is fleeting.   (Artwork by Georges Rouault)

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