personal history

The Persistence of Memory

What undergirds the aesthetics of violence? To what do we ascribe the desire to mark, interrupt, violate those whose beauty we find, as Duras does above "too much?" And does the object of violence need beauty for violence to be bestowed upon it? Is violence a state of mind for the bearer of it, or i

the personal aesthetic

does one learn aesthetics or does aesthetics learn you? meaning: is aesthetics a panoply of ideas and concerns one encounters in a ripe and meaningful fashion, something to add to an artistic arsenal that will further give shape and weight to work made--or is it a different kind of encounter, a shoc