![]() Writing about longing, but is also expert at navigating emotionally fraught sex Regret, disappointment, and, mostly importantly, eros. Greenwell’s prose is lyrically brutal and filled with anger, Like Greenwell’s debut novel What Belongs to You, a romance is at theĪgain privy to a semi-autobiographical tale that hones in on queer desire, Cleanness, at its core, is an examination of the sticky and inextricable pairing of masculinity and violence - and, ultimately, the resulting trauma of when these two frictive forces inevitably collide. His novel is about beautiful men and, more importantly, the ready-to-erupt violence that bubbles under their surface. But Greenwell’s connection to beauty, as an abstraction that is essential and inescapable, bears highlighting. ![]() This is not a new claim violence will always be entwined with the concept of the cycle, in which violence is replicated over and over again, perpetually and across generations. ![]() In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry writes that beauty “seems to incite, even to require, the act of replication.” The same is said of violence in Garth Greenwell’s new novel Cleanness. ![]()
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So I shared how I fixed the mistake I’d made, in permanent ink, in my sketchbook in this email newsletter titled: 95% of being an artist (or a human) is knowing how to deal well with mistakes. I started to attribute the quote to Seneca but it was by Epictetus. That thought popped up again when I made a mistake in my sketchbook. ![]() It’s having the discretion to choose wisely what our next thoughts and actions will be that’s most important. Jokes aside – as I worked on this painting I was thinking that it’s not our first thought or an event that’s the important factor it’s our second thought and the actions we do next in response. This painting is 8 x 10 inches and created with ink, gouache and collage on board. Here’s a dog portrait in my Odditerrarium series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. 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It’s Béla Tarr season this year, as not only is the Hungarian filmmaking making a rare appearance in the United States for a Los Angeles American Cinematheque retrospective of his work, but Janus Films is also re-releasing his 2000 masterpiece “ Werckmeister Harmonies.” ![]() ![]() Teddy also reveals that he wants to avenge the death of his wife Dolores, who was murdered two years prior by a man called Andrew Laeddis, whom he believes is an inmate in Ashecliffe Hospital. He tells Chuck that he believes the code points to a 67th patient, when records show only 66. In Rachel's room, Teddy and Chuck discover a code that Teddy breaks. ![]() Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando (who was incarcerated for drowning her three children).ĭespite being kept in a locked cell under constant supervision, she has escaped the hospital and the desolate island. A film adaptation was released in February 2010. ![]() Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. ![]() |