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FLESH OF MY FLESH
February 21, 2010
“A lot of our thinking on vision is guided by three axioms that were introduced in the 1960s and ’70s and consolidated in the 1980s. They are that the look is violent, that images are ideologically mystifying, and that politically engaged artists and theorists must expose this violence and undo this mystification. I have never been comfortable with this account of vision or of art…”
~Kaja Silverman (from Art Forum, February 2010)
Flesh of my flesh. Blood of my blood. This is a response to the times. A call for love. For joy. For the analogy of the seeming and the meaning. A move from “of” the world to “in” the world. A deliberate act of non-sacrifice!!! All you lovely dreamers embrace non-sacrifice!! For inspiration, find a copy (and read immediately!) of theorist Kaja Silverman’s Flesh of my Flesh (Stanford University Press, 2009), which contains a dizzying and blissful odyssey of love through the works of Gerhard Richter (work pictured above), James Coleman, and Terrence Malick. Apron Shirt by Vivienne Westwood (via Boheme), Welder Transparent Raincoat (Muji), Henrik Vibskov Anja Short (Oak NYC), Dore Dore French white socks (KJ Beckett), and solidify it with a 1950s classic-gone-intellectually-subversive vegan Vida Penny Loafer (via Moo Shoes New York). Silverman is in (not of) the future. Follow suit. Be swift!