| | It's 7am and I can't lie in bed any longer, fighting against this heat that has my skin feeling two sizes two small. A rumble of thunder just swept the length of the sky like a tidal wave and the birds gossip loudly. I ache all over.
And now, the rain. I just had to run outside in bare feet to rescue the (now wet again) washing I forgot had been left out. My feet are black with mud. I guess it must have been raining all night and I didn't hear it.
Spider web spider web. I'm not quite sure what's going on here. I wonder if the spider was on caffeine or something because this is just a mess. A big mess. Seriously. Nil points. You're rubbish mr/mrs spider, you really are. You're not fit to call yourself arachnid.
I've been looking at photos by Andres Serrano, who sparked off much controversy 20 years ago with his Piss Christ. He often uses semen, piss and blood in his work. And many of his photos feature religion sex death. He has a series of pics taken in the morgue and it is these that have been fascinating me recently, after a friend sent me a pic titled - Rat Poison Suicide III. It set off a questioning beast in my brain that had lain dormant for a while. ie. - when does object become subject?
You have a still life, you have found art. The object might be a bowl of fruit, a bicycle, a bunch of flowers, a graffiti scrawl... And then you have a portrait, and the person is subject. But what of the dead? If you're taking a photo of the body of a person ie. minus consciousness/conscience, does he or she become an object? If it were a photo of the corpse of John Lennon, would it be subject, because you knew his name? Or perhaps because you saw him alive, on TV, at a concert? Does a faceless, nameless cadaver on a table become an object through the lens of a camera, even as they remain subject to the people who grieve over them?
I'm all askew. Too tired. Kidcrochet, I have a letter ready for posting. Cerridwens Cauldron, I have a letter for you too, but at the moment it's still in my head. Spyros, dammit, I'll write you another one. Sxuldv8 - I replied to your email but you probably didn't get it. Jacobseye, I think I owe you a letter. Is that everyone? To the rest of you, adieu, adieu, adieu. |
| | Posted 6/12/2006 7:39 AM - 109 views - 23 comments
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