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Entries from January 2010

When the Rain Comes

January 2010 · No Comments

by Ben Nardolilli This rain, is it even Rain? This rain is water Hanging itself, precipitation Suicide, a survey, a taste, The perfume of the clouds, This rain is not heavy, Like gnats and flies, Wet swarming, a dark Bag of diamonds, a confusion For the meteorologists, What to call this weather, What icon to [...]

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Tags: Poetry

Grand Consumption: The Art of James Paulsen

January 2010 · No Comments

“The themes I explore in my paintings, commodities and currency, serve as social connectors, embodying universal qualities. I create totemic images that reveal the fetishizing nature of capitalist economies. My work battles the hegemony of the commodity, and the economic order that has made this state of affairs possible.”

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Tags: Art