Tag Archives: John Biscello

Strip

In a whitehot flash, the map of one’s life exposed– Many roles, then fade.

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What Don’t You See?

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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Foot to Mouth

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

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As Within

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

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Solar Passive

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

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Three Cheers for Charlie

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

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

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

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

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

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