Status Updates From Dead and Alive: Essays

"Yet we should, I think, be careful how hard we bear down on blind spots, seeing as how every artist has them and any artist can fail to see such a myriad of things in this world: men, women, children, nature, animals, class, race, power, cruelty, and so on."

"Power dominates, but art proliferates —and not always along the lines that power dictates. For art, unlike power, can never be wholly unidirectional, artists themselves being at once to voracious and impure with their methods." (European Family).