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Saturday, April 26, 2003 |
and one totally irrelevant magnolia, on a rainy day.
Here's another view of Mrs. Magnolia, taken after the last ice storm.
Correction, thanks to catbird...Mrs. Magnolia is really a rhododendron. I plead insanity - sounds better than stupidity.
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“Fascinator” a. k. a. “Mary”
Beyond beauty, Fascinator reveals a woman with a confident elegance and a free spirit. The title came from the American Pioneer Museum in Minden, Nebraska. In this museum, articles are displayed in chronological order. When looking at women's garments, Joy learned a "fascinator" is a shawl or scarf worn over the head or shoulders. Since she chose to show only the front portion of her model, she believes the "fascinator" is not only the woman who fascinates, but the portion concealed by the imaginary scarf.
Bone structure and anatomy have always fascinated Joy. She believes the strength of her work is in the loose surface as well as in the form and content. The creative marks of her tools are always preserved in the final cast.
Mary Louise Powers Kreps modeled for Fascinator. The piece was completed in bronze with the black-and-gold marble base August 1, 1996 and shown at Sculpture in the Park, Loveland, CO, in August 1996.
9:52:38 AM
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American DJ Fascinator
3-sided prism with dichroic colored glass,
10 gobo patterns,4 internal mirrors
adds multiple gobo effect,
Rotates back and forth
to the beat of the music,
Control via Sound activation or DMX-512,
3 DMX Channels,
Built-in programs
9:43:26 AM
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The metaphor of the severed tongue. Nice thing about a blog is that thoughts don't have to be complete; you can make a sketch and fill in details later. Maybe another blogger will pick up on it and develop it. It's not so much about metaphor as property as it is metaphor as idea.
Tales of Iraqi torture. Much has been made of Saddam's victims who had their tongues cut from the mouths. Rightfully so, maiming is the coldest form of repression. The torturer represents ultimate power and maiming converts his arbitrary whim to a crippled lifetime. The message is clear – I can do this, you are powerless, so I will.
Oh, and the analogies. You can fill in the blanks. Whether the power is assumed from God, Allah, Sharia, or technology is irrelevant Moral questions are set aside. Might makes right.
A more subtle form of this political power is McCarthyism. The tongue, representing the ability to speak, can be metaphorically removed by marginalizing the former speaker, by removing their source of livelihood, or denying them a podium. The point is equally clear in either case – the speaker is irrelevant, the intent is to inspire fear in those who still have either a tongue or a podium, so they are too fearful to speak. The goal is repression of thought. It has never worked for long and never will. Severed tongues continue to speak volumes.
Contradictions. Both right and left have their subtle repressions and pejorative expressions for perceived repressive excesses of the other. The most overused is “politically incorrect”, which can be used laterally to equally justify the ill-formed thoughts of either Michael Moore or Rick Santorum. It’s a stupid expression and should be retired. The problem is not with what was actually said but with the self-appointed arbiters of free speech who want to sever tongues. Let everyone continue to speak and if they say stupid things they will marginalize themselves. When the self-appointed arbiters on one side dis the speaker, the self-appointed arbiters on the others begin to dis the dissers. In these times, there’s too much noise and not enough news. Words should be allowed to stand or fall of their own accord.
3:32:51 AM
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