The Esthetic Apostle

March 2018

The Blue

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perspective creates illusion, another dimensionbeginning of modern age, modern love, the blue

In the 40’s, Picasso was at the end of painting,at the end of two dimensional representationsthe photograph allowed increase in detail, increasein contradictions that heralded the blue

the pictorial--the contradiction in motion--living opposites under the same roof,in the same bad bed built by Musesor some other fringe groupliving with a diminished thingthe distinctions between love and blue

a tableaux that exists for us to avoid lookingmirrors and scapegoatsnot only a transgression, a fascinationwith transgression

the enormity of the sadnesskept at bay, nibbling at its edgestaking small drafts of poisonto build tolerance

transformed things in an imagetransformed people in a marriagepeople in a marriage transformed into thingsthe play is between two registers,language of mirrors that sounds blue