Subsumed By History, Dismembered

Everything is now flat. She is easily splayed across the level-playing field of linkable metadata. An Historiographically-Engendered-Object-in-Waiting, a flower asking to be picked and enjoyed as an organically-conceived, beautiful substance, some-thing-in-itself to be contemplated, categorized, and eventually archived with so many other dead things.


Girl, Interrupted

"...for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility." W. Benjamin

"Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists." Willem De Kooning