Tag: Art

Season in Hell. An Exhibition by Bill Travis.

I have been fascinated by artist Bill Travis for several years now, admiring both his unique use of media but also the intense, strong masculine images. Check out his enchantingly illuminated male subjects framed in 19th-century union cases which I featured back in the fall of 2021.  This new series hammers the skull with a brutality and violence that is […]

Urban Blindness + Insight

Calvino is fascinating for his minuteness of detail and his plays of visibility and invisibility, and the novel Invisible Cities is a voyage into the known-unknown: memory, desire, signs, eyes, names, sky, all mapped out in an intricate numerological/mathematical structure—imaginary conversations between Venetian traveler Marco Polo and Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. “Journeys to relive your past?” was the Khan’s question […]

Kafka-Kandinsky

A Kafka Metamorphosis— One morning, when I woke from troubled dreams, I found myself transformed in my bed into a Kandinsky painting. I lay on my scratchy canvas-like back, and if I lifted my head a little I could see my red and yellow torso, slightly domed and divided by arches—as if Wassily had been up all night turning me […]

The Union Case Photographs of Bill Travis

Artist Bill Travis has been creating a remarkable series of photographs entitled “Poems of the Body”: Enchantingly illuminated male subjects framed in 19th-century union cases. At a root level, these pieces are intensely physical. They have power sexually, erotically. The men are stunning. What I greatly admire is how this “root sexuality” begins to expand, like a drop of ink […]

Brotherly Love

I keep staring. It captivates. Title is Brothers. This tremendous love, but then I’m not so sure: I start to sense a deep rivalry. Perhaps there is more rivalry in love meets the eye. Perhaps Cain and Abel are lovers. By Bran Sólo: @bransolo on instagram and bransolo.com