Jason Abdelhadi
Steven Cline
Jason Abdelhadi
Communicating Vessels
Surrealism & Anarchism
a review of
Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams by Ron Sakolsky; Illustrations by Rikki Ducornet. Autonomedia 2021
In Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland, the Mad-Hatter poses the famous riddle, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” It is not a question that has a predefined answer, but which projects itself, through a lightning-bolt of poetic analogy, into some future resolution—one that we feel pulsing like magic just outside our current field of perception.
Nov 17, 2021 Read the whole text...
Jason Abdelhadi
Just another rusty seismographkid
Steven Cline wants to re-invent Play
a review of
AMOK by Steven Cline. Trapart Books, 2022
Alone hitchhiker sticks out his thumb on a dusty Georgia back-road. He is wearing an all-white paint suit, clutching an ambiguous briefcase. His bearded face is ornamented in haphazard colors, ghastly reds and yellows. Disturbingly, he is not wearing any shoes. Does he not know where he is headed? Maybe he just wants to go, to go out there, to go with you, to show you...What? Do you pick him up?
Jul 5, 2022 Read the whole text...