torpedo the ark

Daniel Silver: Kissing (2024) [1] Statuario Altissimo marble and bronze, with a stainless steel baseplate   I.    It wasn't until I saw...

Nam June Paik: Robot (1990)  Mixed metal with lightbulb  55 x 12 cm   shaperomodern.com     I.    Last week, as mentioned in a recent post ...

Top: Manderley in ruins (chaos reigns) Bottom: Maxim de Winter (uxoricide and floraphile)     I.    Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley ...

Isobel Dixon , Douglas Robertson & D. H. Lawrence     I.    A couple of nights ago, I went to the National Poetry Library - which, for ...

And there is a sleeping cat, very quick! [1]     It is important to understand that the Lawrentian notion of peace does not imply inertia or...

  Rota est primum principium mali   I.   If, like me, you get much of your historical knowledge from the Carry On films, then you could be...

Stephen Alexander: Chaos Reigns II (2024)     Long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark might recall a post published on a sparkling ice-cold mo...

Fig. 1: Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Roger Pic (1977)   Fig. 2: Arthur Atkinson as Hogg in Beckett's one-act play And Then What    (B...

Photo of Soo Catwoman by Ray Stevenson (1976) The slogan is a paraphrase of a sentence written by Walter Benjamin [1]     "Why do we fe...

  Fig. 1: Stephen Alexander: Lascivious   Oil on canvas (c. 1985)      Stephen Alexander's aureate canvas entitled Lascivious depictin...