I am a visual artist currently living in Boston, this blog is a combination of work that I have made, work that I have appropriated, and work that I find inspiring.
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March 7, 2013
October 1, 2012
June 6, 2012
June 1, 2012
Cuba: Dissident Blogger Yoani Sanchez files legal complaint against government
Sanchez has asked Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior to explain why she has been denied permission to leave the island 20 times.
By MANUEL RUEDA
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez filed a complaint with Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday, in which she asks the government to tell her why she has been consistently denied permission to leave the communist island.
Sanchez said her complaint is not likely to succeed, as Cuba’s judicial system is closely aligned with the interests of Raul Castro’s government.
April 24, 2012
Dexter Dalwood:
Gorbachev’s Winter Retreat
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Kurt Cobain’s Greenhouse
Sharon Tate’s House
March 14, 2012
March 5, 2012
Meanwhile, back in CUBA…
Twenty-three Cuban men who tried to gain asylum at the Mexican Embassy by smashing a stolen bus through its gates three years ago faced trial on Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking five- to 12-year sentences for the men, most of whom have awaited trial in prison since the incident in February 2002. The trial, which was closed to the foreign media, is expected to last until Friday. The men hijacked a Mercedes Benz city bus and rammed it into the Mexican Embassy’s gardens after rumors spread in Havana that the mission was offering asylum to Cubans.
As relatives of the 21 men evicted from the Mexican Embassy awaited information on their fates, another intruder — this one at the U.S. Interests Section — was released shortly after pole-vaulting his way into the compound. At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, a young man, apparently under the influence of alcohol, cleared the 15-foot metal fence surrounding the American mission in Havana. U.S. officials gave only a brief account of the incident. “He was interviewed by an official of immigration services.
March 2, 2012
Recuperation
in the sociological sense, is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are commodified and incorporated within a mainstream society and, thus, become interpreted through a more socially acceptable or conventional perspective. More broadly, it may refer to the appropriation of any subversive works or ideas by mainstream media or culture. It is the opposite of détournement, in which images and other cultural artifacts are appropriated from mainstream sources and repurposed with radical intentions.
The concept in political philosophy of recuperation was first proposed by members of the Situationist International. The term is intended to convey a negative connotation because recuperation generally bears the intentional consequence (whether perceived or not) of fundamentally altering the meanings behind ideas due to their appropriation or being co-opted into the ruling discourse.
(picture taken from the series of Fabian Ciraolo)
December 25, 2011
Un Chiste (after Richard Prince)
“ONE WEEKEND AT NIKITA’S DATCHA, FIDEL TOOK SOME PHOTOS WITH A POLAROID CAMERA. NIKITA ASKED WHERE THIS MAGICAL DEVICE HAD COME FROM.
WITH A BEAMING SMILE, FIDEL REPLIED: ‘BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS’.”
- Alberto Korda
December 14, 2010
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Cover painting for The Man from the Ciguri, Moebius’ follow-up to The Airtight Garage. Click through for a super hi-res image.
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Mary Tyler Moore
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what ur average tragedy looks like after 100 years
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Mathieu Hubert
