May 11, 2004
surrealism?
I'm going to be very busy the next few days and so I will not have any time to post. It is budget time in Australia. A federal election is looming. I will probably surface sometime Friday.
A picture within a picture.
John Divola, Zuma series, 1975
The Zuma (1975-79) series is a set of interior views of an old beachfront property with a single, central window opening onto the Pacific, like a picture within a picture. In a highly picturesque manner, Divola recorded the house's gradual destruction at the hands of local vandals, occasionally joining his own marks to theirs, thereby bringing into question the documentary status of the undertaking.
John Divola, Zuma series, 1977
John Divola, Zuma series, 1977
This is something you see a lot of along the beach houses along the coast. Vandals have a great time because the holiday places stand empty most of the year. Many are trashed.