Category Archives: Artwork

Rending on High

Posted on May 24, 2019 by John Biscello

The angel is not nice, nor sweet as pie in the sky or Disneyified to package the ecstasy as something more benignly palatable, no, the angel is radically explicit, unfiltered, and true to its cause, exacting the swiftest deepest means … Continue reading →

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The Source

Posted on May 12, 2019 by John Biscello

Their hearts, registered as infinite beacons, have gone gently and luminously into nights not so good and pitch-black, braving flytrap folds and god-awful rows to soothe, mend and restore the bruised vitals of daughters and sons; they go, infused with … Continue reading →

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Nine Lives Minus One

Posted on May 6, 2019 by John Biscello

For its last supper the cat asked for a cupcake– Christ, look at that flame! (Artwork by Conrad Cooper)

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Radiance Do Dance

Posted on May 6, 2019 by John Biscello

Sometimes it is a breakaway of color, a kaleidoscopic spray and rupture that does the trick in convincing the light to warm your veins and stay a little while longer. (Artwork by Jackson Pollock)

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Grayscale

Posted on May 1, 2019 by John Biscello

For millennia, a cross that stones bear nobly– mute throughout the din. (Installation by Yoko Ono)

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Worn to Marvel

Posted on April 30, 2019 by John Biscello

The old cobbler left behind a pair of shoes– fame became their lot. (Artwork by Vincent Van Gogh)

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Origin Story

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

The music stayed still, grew its own body to rapture and grieve, in concert with a species of veil crafted from small, rare birds and the meshes of patterned weeping. (Image by Man Ray)

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Now Showing

Posted on April 28, 2019 by John Biscello

Constellations pogo to the logic of spores mounting an art show protean in course and limnal uproar. (Artwork by Chua ek Kay)

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Wonderwell

Posted on April 26, 2019 by John Biscello

It is the supple mind, ripe with longing and a sense of wonder, that needs space to dream and marvel unfettered.

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Laurel and Hardy in Paris

Posted on April 26, 2019 by John Biscello

We’ll always have Paris, Stanny, to tag with kerosene and meringue– (cue the “Dance of the Cuckoos” as the pie-in-the-face revolution begins with … Continue reading →

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