Comments on: Death Shall Make Life His Dominion: Victor Vazquez

By: A.D.

A.D. — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:44:23 +0000

yeah, I just read over my response once more, and I have no idea what I saying. Its hardly even English. I told the housekeeper to keep me away from my computer when I have my “spells”

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:42 +0000

I’m still trying to understand the significance of this question? >Shouldn’t the question one asks about his art is the manner in which the partipation with the image evokes or produes this “surplus”?

But that’s probably b/c i’m slow witted. Can you flesh this out a little more?

You’re right to point out that in Christian theology, we have a rupturing of the wholeness or finality of death by the wholeness of Christ’s life, resurrected body, etc… In this vein, I’m trying to point out that Vazquez lacks that foresight; but that’s not all I’m trying to show. Even despite that, Vazquez subordinates life to death.. you could say he makes life death’s shadow.

I want to say, and will when I post again (about Andy Goldsworthy), that there’s a more helpful way of conceiving of life and death in which life is, as Gandalf says in The Return of the King, “white shores; and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.” I think artists like Goldsworthy are able to see through death to newness of life… but that’s for next time.

By: Davis

Davis — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:32:32 +0000

What’s with all the darkness?

By: A.D.

A.D. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:50:32 +0000

Shouldn’t the question one asks about his art is the manner in which the partipation with the image evokes or produes this “surplus”? Are you perhaps dividing death and life too much here? And especially considering Christian theology, isn’t death always oriented to a beyond by virtue of the Christ’s triumph?