Three Things: The Telephone Edition, III
Let’s spend some time on the phone this week. Er, what I mean is, let’s spend some time writing a telephone into a scene. Brriiiing!
Dana Schutz, How We Would Talk, 2007. Oil on canvas.
Rune Guneriussen, Connections #4, from wall No. 2, 2006. Photograph. www.runeguneriussen.no
Fairfield Porter, July Interior, 1964. Oil on canvas. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
My family has been battling a cold over the last few weeks: everyone is sneezing. This week, let’s take inspiration from the spray, and write about a sneeze (or two or three). Aa-choo!
Dana Schutz, Sneeze, 2001. Oil on canvas. Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Heide Fasnacht. (Top) Sneeze I, 1997. Graphite on Paper. Philadelphia Museum. (Bottom) Sneeze IV, 2003. Hand punctures through rag paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. www.heidefasnacht.com
W. K.-L. Dickson, Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894. Library of Congress. View film here.
