Delusional Thought: A Method for Detaching from History

Delusional Thought: A Method for Detaching from History

By Kevin Blake    “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” These famous words from James Joyce’s famous character Stephen Dedalus, in his famous novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, embody the idea of an inescapable infiltration of...
Our Calamity is Our Providence

Our Calamity is Our Providence

By Kevin Blake I have an incredible ability to scare myself. To retreat from my ideas. To sprint in the opposite direction of responsibilities I don’t care to recognize. I have an incredible ability to demobilize myself. To put my action at bay. To halt my creative...
Merit Badge: Walter Hamady at Corbett vs. Dempsey

Merit Badge: Walter Hamady at Corbett vs. Dempsey

By Kevin Blake It doesn’t feel right to report on this exhibition in a digital format–a piece of writing that will likely never be tangible evidence of its existence. The only proper way to engage with this work seems to be on a typewriter, with words scratched out...