With a banana.
Mapplethorpe image here. The update, by David B. Smith, below. (The Velvet Polyester, 2008)
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Regina Hackett takes her Art to Go
With a banana.
Mapplethorpe image here. The update, by David B. Smith, below. (The Velvet Polyester, 2008)
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Just finished re-reading Hickey’s “The Invisible Dragon.” Here is a paragraph from “Nothing Like the Son: On Robert Mapplethorpe’s X Portfolio”:
“And just as Christ, by his submission, enobles his disciple and controls him, so we, by our submission, ennoble the image and control it. In doing so, we demonstrate that, even though we may be, in all other respects, nothing like the Son, we may still, like him, give ourselves up, trust ourselves to be humbled — by God, by art, by others — and, full of guilt, contract the conditions of our own submission — and in that submission redeem our guilt and dominate, triumph before the arrested image of our desire, in an exquisite, suspended moment of pleasure and control.”
Thanks Molly. I love The Invisible Dragon.