“Objects on your screen may be larger than they appear“Claes Oldenburg’s “Light Switches” (1969) at AIC in Chicago(photo from May 2018). I like how this patron’s nose matches the attitude of the light switches.
“What’s Playing”
Sometimes you must scratch that itch
Skip a class or call in sick
Tweak the dials, flip the switch
Chase high art or candy-kitsch
As if all these things were equal,
The post-modern and Medieval,
That through you run prismatic
Only risking the ecstatic
Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) gatefold album cover and pot sorter.
So step right up and get your fix
A silent film or foreign flick
Of any stripe, yours to pick
Big and broad or minor niche
Be it second run or sequel,
Tragedy or treacle,
From crystal clear to enigmatic
Only risking the ecstatic
Max von Sydow plays chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” (1957).Scott Walker sang of this scene in a song of the same name, as art begets art. His baroque vocal style isn’t for everyone. My wife can’t stand it while I find it both beautiful and funny. Such is the nature of these things.
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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