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    Sodom & Gomorrah: Beyond the City Limits

    In 2000, Italian artist Alessandro Bavari first revealed his provocative and monumental series of digital photo collages, "Sodom and Gomorrah", at once redefining modern visuals of excess and perversion. He has, however, reserved judgment of a New Progeny, opting instead to depict a metaphysical and visionary amusement park, void of both accusation and compassion. Instead he has captured two proud and forbidden cities, devoted to vice, lust, and a virtuosity of transgression. One can only imagine how Bavari might construct the apocalypse or paint the gates of Hell. 

         Bavari (b.1963) was raised in Latina, later studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Although his background included oils, watercolors, and engraving, he has always been drawn to photography and montages. Since 1993, he has added digital manipulation to his more organic and industrial photographic images, "dissolving the boundaries" of form.

        "Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. Then, from the black storm through which we seem to have passed (but we do not even say we), we emerge prostrate, without a thought, a we that is void of content." (Marcel Proust, "Sodom & Gomorrah", 1923.) 

    • 10 April 2011
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    The sandbox is always open, my friends, for those that want to share eclectic musings, surrealist images, and aural delights.
    I detect the melody of the written word and can visualize the beat in the song. That's perhaps why I think in ringtones and post in sound-bites.
    But, most of all, I celebrate the moments and the small splendors that enrich our soul.
    The sandbox here at Marklewood is flanked in the corners by large bronze urns of yellow peonies & azure-blue lobelia. Behind it is a meandering creek lined with ancient willows.
    And if we run scarce of provisions, there is always the bait shop down the dirt road.

    My spirit navigates freely from that of Pied Piper to bookworm to Lord Fauntleroy to that of a Bohemian crusader. You best pour a healthy cup of coffee or glass of pinot noir.

    I am a disengaged designer, scribe, and recidivist currently living in the hinterlands of Raleigh, North Carolina. I strive to be kind and I seek out those moments of hope that indeed refuel my soul. Often, the most potent of inspiration is found in random human connections, unexpected art finds, and the magic that cloaks our world.

    And, yes, we have pets here at Marklewood: a dozen at most recent census. I refer to them fondly as the Twelve Noble & Apostolic Pusses, but they are much more than any label or moniker would suggest. All are indeed rescues or their progeny, with five having been elevated to "indoor" status. The other seven serve sentry here in the stillness of an ancient pine woods.
    Alas, poor Tartuffe has been missing since May of '10. Legend has it that he has embarked on some grand theatrical adventure, perhaps in New York. But I like to think that his spirit hovers over head.

    "I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.” -- Arthur Rimbaud

  • About Mark Dylan Sieber

    The sandbox is always open, my friends, for those that want to share eclectic musings, surrealist images, and aural delights.
    I detect the melody of the written word and can visualize the beat in the song. That's perhaps why I think in ringtones and post in sound-bites.
    But, most of all, I celebrate the moments and the small splendors that enrich our soul.
    The sandbox here at Marklewood is flanked in the corners by large bronze urns of yellow peonies & azure-blue lobelia. Behind it is a meandering creek lined with ancient willows.
    And if we run scarce of provisions, there is always the bait shop down the dirt road.

    My spirit navigates freely from that of Pied Piper to bookworm to Lord Fauntleroy to that of a Bohemian crusader. You best pour a healthy cup of coffee or glass of pinot noir.

    I am a disengaged designer, scribe, and recidivist currently living in the hinterlands of Raleigh, North Carolina. I strive to be kind and I seek out those moments of hope that indeed refuel my soul. Often, the most potent of inspiration is found in random human connections, unexpected art finds, and the magic that cloaks our world.

    And, yes, we have pets here at Marklewood: a dozen at most recent census. I refer to them fondly as the Twelve Noble & Apostolic Pusses, but they are much more than any label or moniker would suggest. All are indeed rescues or their progeny, with five having been elevated to "indoor" status. The other seven serve sentry here in the stillness of an ancient pine woods.
    Alas, poor Tartuffe has been missing since May of '10. Legend has it that he has embarked on some grand theatrical adventure, perhaps in New York. But I like to think that his spirit hovers over head.

    "I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.” -- Arthur Rimbaud

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