[ THE BLUE AT THE BASE OF THE FLAME ]

Various fragments from my ongoing body of work exploring the continuum of burnings in Europe, including the Crusades, the Witch Hunts, the Black Plague pogroms, and the Shoah. A land of holy wars and ashes and ruins of ancient gods. Three thousand years of burial mounds. The terrain of my father’s family.

Much of this work undertaken during th Haut de Fee residency in Serecourt, Vosges (France), and upcoming fellowship at Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Bavaria (Germany).

Stalin World – a Gulag Amusement Park

July 11, 2009

The park was silent and empty in the spring morning, and there was a strangely mixture of grief and hilarity. According to Mel Brooks, it’s a common response to genocide and totalitarianism.Nothing like an anti-fascism amusement park to truly exemplify that gestalt…


BumbleMoth

BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)