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The Edge Effect
unexpected projects is a collaboration between Jenny Salomon and Jen Stager. In this series, they interview other collaborative teams in the Bay Area to find out what their projects and processes are...
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: An Introduction
The Supper at Emmaus by Han van Meegeren (1936) which he passed off as a Vermeer.Patricia Highsmith’s short story “The Great Cardhouse” (1963) centers on Lucien Montelhuc, a wealthy art collector whose...
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On Being-Hated: Damien Hirst, Alli Warren, Kissing the Wall.
<i>Mother and Child (Divided)</i>, Damien Hirst, 1993Let’s start with where I want to go. I don’t know where I want to go but it’s definitely not here. I’ve just quit smoking for the second...
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Objects Sublimated to Things
unexpected projects is a collaboration between Jenny Salomon and Jen Stager. In this series, they interview other collaborative teams in the Bay Area to find out what their projects and processes are...
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On Being-Hated: Ron Athey, Whip-Its, Envy.
<i>Incorruptible Flesh: Dissociative Sparkle</i>, Ron Athey (2006)I know these posts usually start with something coherent, like where I am or where I might be going. How I want what I want...
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: Not Pollock
“Nothing That Meets the Eye” is a series of essays in which I think through the aesthetic and affective fallout of some of the odder, ubiquitous, and more stubborn byproducts of our culture of copies,...
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: Cheap Imitations
“Nothing That Meets the Eye” is a series of essays in which I think through the aesthetic and affective fallout of some of the odder, ubiquitous, and more stubborn byproducts of our culture of copies,...
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On Being-Hated: Conceptualism, the Mongrel Coalition, the House That Built Me.
Author’s Note 5/20/2015: I believe that the essay below has deeply hurt my family, and although this might seem unnecessary, I would like to publicly acknowledge that most of the writing I do, that...
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: Notes on Clones
“Nothing That Meets the Eye” is a series of essays in which I think through the aesthetic and affective fallout of some of the odder, ubiquitous, and more stubborn byproducts of our culture of copies,...
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: Double Trouble
“Nothing That Meets the Eye” is a series of essays in which I think through the aesthetic and affective fallout of some of the odder, ubiquitous, and more stubborn byproducts of our culture of copies,...
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Obsession Fou
French poster for Jean-Luc Godard’s PIERROT LE FOU (1965). Finally fulfilled my long-held ambition to read Obsession, Lionel White‘s 1962 140-page noir-thriller, which provided the basis for Jean-Luc...
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