Tag: Norman Bryson
Blindness
Jeoann Alfred, blind, at church, Cange, Haiti. May, 2014. “And for as long as painting’s mode of vision would be constructed by men, the space in which women were obliged to lead their lives would be taken from them and imagined through the values of the ‘greater’ existence from which they were excluded.” Norman Bryson, […]
Carrying Embers
Carrying embers, from Mdm. Michaux’s roadside stand, Cange, Haiti. 6:02 AM, May, 2014. “Rhopography (fromĀ rhopos, trivial objects, small wares, trifles)is the depiction of those things which lack importance, the unassuming material base of life that ‘importance’ constantly overlooks. …The concept of importance can arise only by separating itself from what it declares to be […]