Category Archives: Artwork

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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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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Ooooh, Ahhhh

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

The umbilical cable arrived from heaven to bait and hook the grateful mortal who sacrificed his head (and the dead weight of its trivial contents masquerading as profound or important) to become a supple visual vowel with no more ties … Continue reading →

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Tourniquet

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

She, modeled as callus to grave palm, wherein the strictest ledger of coils implies the spoils of ecstasy held in unwavering contempt of gods false or none.   (Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois)

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Thy Fearful Symmetry

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

Mothering its own vigil and scripture, a chorus ordained to practice the arc of symmetry.   (Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois)

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Catechism

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

Cautionary in her needlepoint grace, the eyeless widow kept perfectly still, tracking the scent of air to minster her survival through prey.   (Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois)

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May I Have This Dance?

Posted on April 14, 2019 by John Biscello

Prehistory repeats itself through the bootleg cursive and spirals of a species consigned to the fluency of waltz.   (Sculpture by Lousie Bourgeois)

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