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THE FROZEN MOMENT

Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that's all there is, my friend. Than let’s keep dancing. Let’s break out the booze and have a ball. If that’s all… there is. - Peggy Lee

There were a few nights where the passage from dusk to dawn was something like an elemental journey… where situations, emotions and actions could change tenor on a dime… slingshot from joviality to mayhem to fear to calm... these were nights where nothing much happened in the world beyond the playgrounds of music, weed, beer, etc… but among such common elements there was a dare of sorts — all teetered on the edge of an abyss.

These nights ended with the light of dawn creeping over a fatigued face. A face at the tail-end of a spectacular bender. The face of a figure awash in that moment, hangover incipient, witnessing an edge between two realities. A moment which arrives drunk on itself and dizzy with the will to maintain.

This is the promise of an early primitive staring up at the night sky, defiant of the endless canopy stretched high above his brief gesture. His face is bloodied-but-unbowed. A face giddy (and terrified) at the open possibility of an infinite moment. On his face I place a harlequin-death-mask to best show his emotion in it’s raw being, it’s elemental grace. He is alive in the Frozen Moment. A moment that arrives and departs like a single frame of film. It clatters toward the dawn, fumbles dizzily at the edge and rallies stubbornly.

Neither looking back nor forward.

Until my darkness goes…

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Reviews
2008 “In the Spirit of Modernist Ideals,” NY Times
2007 White Hot Magazine – Hans Michaud
2005 NY Arts – Leah Oates
2001 NY Times – Holland Cotter
2001 Time Out NY – Sarah Valdez
1999 Art In America – Mark Van Proyen
1999 SF Weekly – Colin Berry
1998 Art Issues – Mark Van Proyen

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009 Dead Tour Magazine, Russell Nachman’s Pictures for the Last Great America by Blake Freitag
2009 Painting the Glass House, Exhibition Catalogue
2005 Future Man by Robert Downey Jr., Publication of “Untitled” (2003), CD Booklet Art
1998 Zyzzyva, Publication Of "Score" No. 2, Spring Issue