(click to view full size) The Orientalist artist depends on the bodies he depicts to remain static, placed precariously between the comfort of that which is familiar, yet thrilling in its difference. These harem girls might be “frightened”, but maybe the artist is frightened, too: maybe there is a threat lurking inside these “pretty little …
(click to view full size) What does it mean to study through one’s body? To understand the subject of one’s study through the experience of one’s own particular combination of heart, brain, and viscera? What can it mean, then, when that same body is an overwrought cultural battleground, the concealment and revelation of which is …
I decided this one needed something different, and I think I’m happier with it now.
