Friday, September 21, 2012

Scenes from an Impending Apocalypse

This is a page from the new issue of Direct Art Magazine, on sale now. The title of the page is partly inspired by my erstwhile collaborator Jack Ross (Scenes from a Puppet Oresteia). I put darkly humorous captions to four of my recent (2012) artworks, as opposed to doing the usual thing—an image or two, with a small title, etc., and a link to my web site...


2 comments:

Dr Jack Ross said...

I really love these images -- something so resonant about those heavy, somehow middle-European lines of the women's faces ...

Funnily enough, I wrote a sequence of poems called "Suburban Apocalypse" once ...

[http://hesiodic.blogspot.co.nz/2007/10/pamphlets.html#_ftn20]

William T. Ayton said...

Jack, good to hear from you. I shall check out your poems. Hope all is well with you.