Category Archives: Artwork

Kuan Yin’s Promise

Posted on April 25, 2019 by John Biscello

I can only offer you this. Do not worry. Always the river of ight runs inward narrowing to an unspecified nexus, a glimmering placeless speck that holds silence tenable and golden, its spate of volumes your means to equity in … Continue reading →

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Golden Means

Posted on April 25, 2019 by John Biscello

Love, in its mating pitch to molecules, amounts to a sort of glyphic jazz or totemic bebop, upon which cherish patterns its founting signature.   (Artwork by Gustav Klimt)

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What Comes to Pass

Posted on April 19, 2019 by John Biscello

Agony, a skinned aesthetic drawn from the ash and resin of martyrs cast to perish and runes.   (Artwork by Guy Denning, inspired by the 1928 film, The Passion of Joan of Arc)

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Hearing Aid

Posted on April 19, 2019 by John Biscello

The graffitied veins of the cosmos bleed a ruptured interplay of so much noiseless static in God’s ears drumming to shape wonder.   (Artwork by Jackson Pollock)

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Icarus by Any Other Name

Posted on April 18, 2019 by John Biscello

Embers of a flight, it wasn’t rocket science– Maybe next time, kid.   (Artwork by Matisse)

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Patterning

Posted on April 18, 2019 by John Biscello

Strains of lunacy, befalling poets and clowns– Homesick for the moon.   (Artwork by Cezanne)

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What Don’t You See?

Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Biscello

No prism. No idealogy. No agenda. Simply– Hell hath no fury like a woman scorched and swallowed by desert, bones set to reform and return as a wind-knit skeleton dancing upon the gouged names of its freighted oppressors.   (Artwork … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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