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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 → by Danieru
In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369 lights. I've wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with florescent bulbs, but with the older, more expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. An act of sabotage, you know. I've already begun to wire the wall. A junk man I know, a man of vision, has supplied me with wire and sockets. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and the light is the truth. When I finish all four walls, then I'll start on the floor. Just how that will go, I don't know. Yet when you have lived invisible as long as I have you develop a certain ingenuity.Extract from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Image is 'After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue' by Jeff Wall
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January 03, 2006 8:07 PM
http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/more_old_moldy_art/
it was among the handful of truly gorgeous pieces of work. the shot is big and back-lit. it's hard to get a sense of just how luminous it is until you see it in person... anyhow, kudos to your curatorial instincts.
January 04, 2006 2:55 PM
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