Prevaricating
Jan. 1st, 2004 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
likethebeerCommenting on mrmustard's journal, I encountered the journal of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
syphillus, which has an icon w/Arthur Rimbaud. That reminded me of the "Arthur Rimbaud in New York" series by David Wojnarowicz, and I went off in search of web pages that showed selected artworks from that series in order to provide hyperlinks to them to illustrate what I mean (like I'm doing right now). Along the way, I read some of the articles about Wojnarowicz. For those of you who don't know (which I imagine means practically everyone in the universe, even the small universe that I currently, and most likely, will always, inhabit), I wrote my master's thesis on David Wojnarowicz. I delved into his life and art for a year, after having developed an ever steadying interest in him for about 4 years. I swam in his life, actually. It consumed most of my passion for the second half of that year (the first year, btw, that I worked at Taliesin). In many ways, I think the thesis was brilliant, with a title that is so wonderfully "master's thesis" all the way.
Give me a moment to remember what the damned title is.... The Incrutable Imagination and the Politics of Visibility in the Art of David Wojnarowicz. At least my acknowledgements didn't go on for 2 pages like a friend of mine, who also began signing everything, D*** Mc****, M.A.
Unfortunately, I've never found the right venue either for my thesis, or for any of the sections within it. And sometimes I long to dive back into Wojnarowicz's life, not just as a fan but as a commentator. He's only been dead for 11 years, as opposed to FLLW, who was dead before I was born. He had a passion that's devastating most of the time, and he created compositions so different from FLLW. FLLW was always striving for a universal beauty; Wojnarowicz's work brims w/a controlled chaos in, at times, neon colors (although, to be truthful, I do enjoy his photographic work the most). Anyway, I was thinking all of this and it occurred to me that the other reason I missed Woj was that I was starting to get somewhere w/this Taliesin thing and so of course, rather than pursue it, I'd leap off in another direction and never achieve anything on either side.
Happy New Year.
syphillus, which has an icon w/Arthur Rimbaud. That reminded me of the "Arthur Rimbaud in New York" series by David Wojnarowicz, and I went off in search of web pages that showed selected artworks from that series in order to provide hyperlinks to them to illustrate what I mean (like I'm doing right now). Along the way, I read some of the articles about Wojnarowicz. For those of you who don't know (which I imagine means practically everyone in the universe, even the small universe that I currently, and most likely, will always, inhabit), I wrote my master's thesis on David Wojnarowicz. I delved into his life and art for a year, after having developed an ever steadying interest in him for about 4 years. I swam in his life, actually. It consumed most of my passion for the second half of that year (the first year, btw, that I worked at Taliesin). In many ways, I think the thesis was brilliant, with a title that is so wonderfully "master's thesis" all the way. Give me a moment to remember what the damned title is.... The Incrutable Imagination and the Politics of Visibility in the Art of David Wojnarowicz. At least my acknowledgements didn't go on for 2 pages like a friend of mine, who also began signing everything, D*** Mc****, M.A.
Unfortunately, I've never found the right venue either for my thesis, or for any of the sections within it. And sometimes I long to dive back into Wojnarowicz's life, not just as a fan but as a commentator. He's only been dead for 11 years, as opposed to FLLW, who was dead before I was born. He had a passion that's devastating most of the time, and he created compositions so different from FLLW. FLLW was always striving for a universal beauty; Wojnarowicz's work brims w/a controlled chaos in, at times, neon colors (although, to be truthful, I do enjoy his photographic work the most). Anyway, I was thinking all of this and it occurred to me that the other reason I missed Woj was that I was starting to get somewhere w/this Taliesin thing and so of course, rather than pursue it, I'd leap off in another direction and never achieve anything on either side.
Happy New Year.
