When Marcel Duchamp’s masterpiece The Large Glass partially shattered in transit, he embraced the effects of chance, declaring the symmetrical pattern of cracks an improvement. Similarly I present without amends my collaboration with the squirrels on our jack o’lanterns this year.
c. 1850
Pierre-Félix Wiesener
Black ink and chalk and estompe heightened with white on blue-green wove paper
MIA
Richard Holzschuh
Pen and ink on card
MIA
ORCAGNA
1350s
Fresco Santa Marta, Florence
ORCAGNA
c. 1345
Fresco Museo dell’Opera di Santa Croce, Florence
LUCA DI TOMMÈ
1362
Tempera on panel, 122 x 62 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Touch and dampen
The round white surfaces
Of her body
More self love
Skipping across
The universe
They will redeem
O purity remember
A comely maid today
Youth
Of the Goddess
Their virginity
A Leak In The Safe 