Miles McAlinden - Bell, Book and Candle
artwork

Can you love me
2000
mirrored glass
55x50cm

You looking at me
2001-03
mirrored glass
55x50cm

Invisible
2001-03
mirrored glass
55x50cm

Perfect
2001-03
mirrored glass
55x50cm

Not as young as last time
2001-03
mirrored glass
55x50cm

Objet d’art
2001-03
mirrored glass
55x50cm

For your eyes only
2001-03
mirrored glass
55x50cm
Facts once accepted as correct are proven false.
The camera was seen to tell the truth. The small lie that a grainy, black-and-white flat illusion was a true representation of reality, a complete mimesis of nature, was up and running.
Vincent was special. He always wore a long, beige raincoat buttoned to the neck and shabby black boots. He was short, heavily ser with close-cropped hair. Was he formless, or did he cut a simple shape? ...He was a master string collector, and I became, perhaps, his only apprentice. We always met by chance, never by appointment. The natural rhythm was preferred.
An image registers quicker than a text. A text takes time to read. We register the content and structure of a text by reading it from where it starts to where it finishes. With visual images there is no particular start or finish
...the image I had so admired of him, floating, gliding, drowned and dead, suddenly returned. I was struck by an enormous feeling of guilt...He was my first direct hands-on meeting with death and all could I see was visual artistry. I was deeply ashamed. This was taking art too far.
Advanced art should be hard to hang a label on.
Images have no defined rules for their structure, ‘reading’ and understanding as texts have.
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