Alligator by Rachael Katz
Tags/ Posted by Jason ReynoldsA knee of stars presses down on my throat.continue reading this poem
When Arthur Pierre was killed in a game of pick-up football, it was called a freak accident. The paper headlines repeated the phrase like an invocation over pictures that made clear and orderly the void he left behind. First, there was a photograph of us all standing outside the church on the day of his [...]
eX de Medici: Emblems of Death Transformed
Tags/ Posted by Lara CoryThe big fat Italian guys with the Chinese characters tattooed onto their man titties sit in the steam room with me and say Jimmie and Hey Jimmie and Jimmie Jimmie.continue reading this poem
In a visually seductive collection of watercolours, Australian artist eX de Medici lures the viewer in only to challenge their perception. Don’t be fooled by the sentimental allusions to memento mori, de Medici’s work is a world away from the insipid decay and morbid tones of the Vanitas genre. Her signature imagery of guns and skulls is not simply an aesthetic delight of colour and design, these are complex emblems laden with messages of power and despair.
