When I first moved to Seattle methamphetamine was quickly becoming (or perhaps already was) the preferred party drug in the gay scene. I was a working DJ at the time, spinning at clubs and parties around town….Methhead<\/i> is a memorial for a lifestyle that I left behind years ago and for some of my friends who were lost along the way. I think of the statue-like crystalline head as being symbolic of many different faces \/ heads, as well as being a kind of self-portrait of that time in my life. I also think that correction fluid (a material generally used for covering one’s mistakes) is the perfect medium for the “portraits” in this series, which often have dark and embarrassing back-stories. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you drag your life behind you in a sack, it’s your shadow. A shadow is a fact when you cast it and otherwise a metaphor for experience, except in art, where its meanings are myriad. Cat Clifford‘s shadows do not depend on light. They have their own lives and creatures who move within them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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William Kentridge<\/a> gives flesh to James Joyce’s aside, that history is a nightmare from which he is unable to awake.<\/p>\n![\"williamkentrdigeshad.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/williamkentrdigeshad.jpg\")
In An-My Le<\/a>‘s war, soldiers set up shadows to take the hit. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n![\"AnmyLeshadow.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/AnmyLeshadow.jpg\")
Matt Browning<\/a>‘s Honest Labor<\/i> is a droll sham even though it’s real, which is why shadows carry the meaning.<\/p>\n![\"mattbrowninglabor.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/mattbrowninglabor.jpg\")
Charles LaBelle<\/a>‘s shadows accept none of taint.<\/p>\n![\"charleslabelleshad.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/charleslabelleshad.jpg\")
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Said Buening, via