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Facing the Sublime & the Grotesque: Chapter 1 : Out of the Basement
"Images were appropriated from my sketchbooks and photocopied onto transparency film. The basement is where I store some of my work, symbolic for things that are hidden away. grotesque adj.1. Characterized by incongruous or ludicrous distortion. 2. Bizarre: outlandish. 3. Of or designating the grotesque in an artistic work executed in this style. -n. 1. One that is grotesque. 2. a. An art style developed in 16th-cent. Italy, marked by incongruous combinations of monstrous or natural forms. b. A work of art executed in this style.


P.1 Grotesque Pages: Bestiary,
Wash, Gesso, Photocopies from sketchbook on transparency film, grommets.11x 13.5". 2004 Available for Purchase

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Image published in The Lampshade 2006

 

 

 

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