Category Archives: Artwork

Nocturne Variations

Posted on August 16, 2017 by John Biscello

Slideshow of our multi-media presentation of Nocturne Variations (Taos, NM, 8/12/17):  

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Blade

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

The moon woman bled in shamanic company– blade warm and dripping.

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Eden

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

No one had suspected that Eden’s true location had been buried and hidden beneath centuries upon sepulchral centuries of death masks and psychic makeovers

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Silhouette

Posted on August 15, 2017 by John Biscello

Baring a life sentence of notes and text, the steady bow executes its awful rowing toward God in marginal silhouette.

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Piety

Posted on August 14, 2017 by John Biscello

By piety’s standard, a radiant guise, refracting the levels and measures of a true mirror– woman, man, silence, choir.

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Enclosure

Posted on August 14, 2017 by John Biscello

She has held this position of constant sorrow for millennia, ennobling the grief of sundered hearts too human to bear openly.

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Lady Lazarus

Posted on August 14, 2017 by John Biscello

By the palm’s raised standard of root and stigmata, the dawn’s filtrating spread of light and volume give new breath to the legend of Lady Lazarus reborn.

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Plaything

Posted on August 13, 2017 by John Biscello

Mattel’s secret fetish, Barbie’s hooded twin, exposed– news at eleven.

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Extra, Extra

Posted on August 13, 2017 by John Biscello

The hidden newsprint of the universe and its unreported sorrows carried on the shoulders and in the heart of a young woman on a bike who pedals with furious intent between blurred and urgent breaks of line.

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Childhood’s Edge

Posted on June 29, 2017 by John Biscello

  Excerpt from Nocturne Variations:    The show has ended and we are now in the upstairs room at Tabanid, the room known as the Attic. It is sort of a private clubhouse, a vice den with no regard for … Continue reading →

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