Word: inkblot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John, the crouching woman appears to have three disproportionate arms, and her features are smudged out. Christ's blurred face, sunk between his shoulders, seems to be turned in his mother's direction, but it's as hard to read as a Rorschach inkblot test. His right hand is extended, as if giving up; his left is clenched, still fighting. In the last version his head is hanging, his mother and friend embracing the cross and the body. There's no more need for beautifying: their humanity shines out. The overall effect is almost...
...which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black body of the bee, while the wings are mere outlines. The work also has more abstract elements when decomposed; the monkey is formed from a single color, almost like a Rorsharch inkblot test except for the details on its face. Most of the canvas remains blank and open; the branch twists unrealistically. Abstract and the real coexist on this canvas with its guardedly ironic sensibility—the monkey examines the bee as we might examine the painting...
...current inkblot interminglings of Palestinian and Israeli territories could only be sustained if the two tribes were willing to coexist more or less peacefully. Without that, separation has the attraction of clarity: Us here, them there...