Tag Archives: sculpture

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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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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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)