Tag: Art

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 […]

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 […]

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