Duane Michals once said something that I recall when I view nearly any photograph: Photographers never photograph what they can’t see, and of course the most important things are what you can’t see. It’s what you feel. What you feel is much more important than what you can see. And so that is why I had to write—why I had […]
Tag: Ghost
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 […]
Rass, Protector of Body
Rasmussen. Son of Erasmus, the Beloved. David Slash Dave. Male Lineage. Omnipresent. Beloved Guardian. Moving as a Ghost moves. Rass at my back— Shadow protector. Dark Forest Guide. Bodyguard on the night journey of the spirit. Strength. image inspired by Eden Lake
Ghosts on the Fifth of November
The Fifth of November: Guy Fawkes, V for Vendetta, Anonymous, Subversive Resistance, Masks, Identity, Visibility, Invisibility. Imagine all of that November Fifth intensity bursting out of your soul? An interior Gunpowder Treason and Plot? The “ghost within,” who might be a twin or alter ego, friend and foe, Cain and Abel, Self/Other, one’s own object of desire. What occurs exactly […]
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 […]
