treenalak, 2013

treenalak, 2013

Haze.  Smudge.  Shadow.  Stain.

Haze.  Smudge.  Shadow.  Stain.

“Smooch”

“Smooch”

click on the image or here to read on

click on the image or here to read on

“Bleed Through On Truth” 2013

“Bleed Through On Truth” 2013

morning hour with painting, Richter, and Mad Men

(click here to read what it’s about)

morning hour with painting, Richter, and Mad Men

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extracted from Let There Be Dark: a look inside Bill Brandt’s book of shadows, by Richard Lacayo, March 18, 2013 Time Magazine

extracted from Let There Be Dark: a look inside Bill Brandt’s book of shadows, by Richard Lacayo, March 18, 2013 Time Magazine

from the translated Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, 77-79AD

from the translated Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, 77-79AD

View From A Creature’s Bunker, 2013

“View From A Creature’s Bunker” results from series of confrontations and encounters with nature’s otherness, but more specifically, our ability to conjure up and reclaim nature’s lost and displaced otherness through technology and conceptual means.  


Skinning The Image

Offshooting from Skin and Image, what will “skinning” an image do to the power relations held together by the said image?  Presuming that in this question “skinning” stands for an application of a skin instead of its standard opposite meaning: the peeling away of the skin.  If it is the skin that will hold together the image into measurable boundaries, make it attainable, demystified, wouldn’t that curse the image?  

“flame” 2013