Sunday, February 18, 2007

Lover Triumphant

Mixed Media on Plywood, Detail 36" x 24", 2007

Belated Valentine's Day greetings. It's been a busy week. Work on the Lover's Discourse took off and I'm helping a friend clean out her deceased mother's house. Her mother had a serious compulsion to hoarding. I'm fascinated with the process and the problem. I'm writing about hoarding as a symptom of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and as a cultural phenomenon.
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February is my least favorite month except for the 14th which is like a beautiful red cardinal in the brittle, grey landscape. I've always appreciated V Day but this year - with the Barthes project - it had a different flavor. The linguistic analysis of that state hasn't dampened my belief in the magic of love.


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