The fish are interesting as metaphors, Chris, but may need that explanation: as pure visual, I still find the mast reflections most engaging....
Doug
On 2012-04-18, at 7:23 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> I am thinking of adding an alpha channel ghost like image to the marina photo series of a dead fish I caught with my fishing rod and as such died. So I photographed it. I am very aware of the sexist notion of fish and esp dead fish, which would be misogyny. It seems to me this may allow a mimesis immanent critique of sexism...
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> I come from that political background in gay liberation which was militantly opposed to the misogyny expressed by some earlier gay rights politics such as Camp, in Sydney. For me, there can be no gay liberation without women's liberation and lesbians are vitally essential to gay liberation.
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> Comments on this idea are most welcome... dead fish mimesis the crisis of AIDS and dead gay men.... (why am I still alive?)
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> (See blog below)
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> -- http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/
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