From Seymour Hersh, “The General’s Report,” about the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib:
A recently retired C.I.A. officer, who served more than fifteen years in the clandestine service, told me that the task-force teams “had full authority to whack—to go in and conduct ‘executive action,’ ” the phrase for political assassination. “It was surrealistic what [...]
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14 June 2009
Third Wave
13 May 2009
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In anticipation
4 May 2009
Before I put round 3 of the collages up, I wanted to share first a few words about them, which I wrote to a friend in a recent letter:
“I’ve been working on a series of collages, the first of which you’ve seen. There are nine in total. They’re all online, on my occasional blog/website. They [...]
Collage Machines, Round 2
30 March 2009
All from photos I’ve taken, except a couple frames from Wang Kar Wai’s In the Mood For Love and 2046, and a photograph of Patti Smith’s shirt.
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Small Collages
26 March 2009
A friend of mine started a a mix tape society, where everyone submits a couple songs each week or so, and we make a CD for everyone. He asked me to make some collages for the CD inserts, so that’s how these started. They’re nice little works, and each is about 6 x 6 inches. [...]
Paul Chan at the Renaissance Society
13 March 2009
“My Laws are My Whores.”
When I walked into Paul Chan’s exhibit at the Renaissance Society, I expected to see nine portraits of the Justices of the Supreme Court, which I had seen reproduced alongside newspaper reviews and press releases. It took me fifteen minutes of walking around the small gallery to realize that the portraits [...]
GO!llage
12 February 2009
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Parts and Labor
5 February 2009
The following are some paintings I made for my collages. They are experiments, industrial research for new tools and parts to place in my machines.
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Machines to Make Same
4 February 2009
A few attempts from November. I will not discuss their failings, as these deficiencies are manifest:
“Lincoln Profile”
“Damen Bus”
I had to at least give it a try. I cut up a few of these paintings to use in collages, and started tacking them up with the photographs I was painting from. As I wrote previously, a [...]
Machines to Make Strange
3 February 2009
The photographs in these collages were taken in June, but assembled in September and October. I think they are an attempt to make sense of Pont-Aven as a space of social relations, rather than simply a site of artistic production.
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The assemblages generally progressed from large and expansive to small and particular, as I found the [...]
