(Ed. Note: This was originally published in Image Facts.) I went off on Hess pretty hard in a piece published a while back byMetaphilm, reading it along the lines of the ignorant nihilism that informs Gummo (one of the worst things produced by America in the 90’s). Despite the aimlessness of Napoleon Dynamite, which I argued appears at first […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.)     Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. – Joseph Cornell Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which […]