a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.
This work of art was recently brought to my attention, and I find it positively breath-taking. This is definitely my favorite artistic response to Vincent of anything I’ve seen, so I wanted to share these beautiful images with you.
Vincent, could you have imagined?
Self-Portrait, 1889
Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin), 1888.
I was forwarded a link [...]
Mon, February 22 2010 » Artists Inspired by Vincent, Personal, Theater piece, Video Entries » 1 Comment
In the beginning, I avoided the “Van Go” aspect to this project right and left, I instead dug for the truth, and the truth could only be found in his letters, in his paintings, in history… Or so I thought.
But the commodification, the misinterpretation, the drama, the mythology of Van Gogh is all important, and [...]
Mon, February 8 2010 » Artists Inspired by Vincent, Popular Culture, Research » 4 Comments
For Vincent
I.
Smooth silky serpentine
Swirl of the tongue
Of the brush
Around and over under
Just up over the back of my ear
Wet
Salacious
Voluminous
Tickling me with
Color-saturation
Vibrant forceful virile
Thing
Like the crest of a wave
Overtaking you
Turning you over and around
In its insides
Like a lick of fire
Singeing the hairs on your neck
Yet you are inside the wet
Inside the insides
Like pins [...]
