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May 15 - June 7, 2008 532 Gallery / Thomas Jaeckel 532 west 25th street, 2nd floor Marcy Brafman’s paintings deal with the dark and light of the cultural landscape and the nature of character. They reflect on the demons and deities of the memory as seen on television, billboards, boxtops, catechisms, illustrated classic comic books, masterpieces in the Frick, old paperback covers, graffiti and signage on moving vehicles and packaging detritus of every shape and kind. Concern with brand identity as a genuine spiritual state plays a strong role in the work, an examination of painting as a mirror to internal and external states, individual and social intentions. Each painting represents a logo poem, a distillation of an array of ideas into a simple painted statement. Each one plays a character in a private cast alphabet. These paint driven works portray good and evil, ascension, escape, truth, myth, judgment, consequence and destiny. One Shot oil enamel and spray paint form these works. G...

The law as an impersonal device – the impersonality adds neutrality for the diffusion of conflict. By ordering society through an impersonal medium we are better able to rationally resolve disputes without the dispute lingering on. Any personalised attempt at resolution of the conflict/dispute where one party perceives a less than favourable outcome constitutes an affront to that party and results in a continuation of hostilities. An impersonal resolution through the medium of rules where the rules have been set out and agreed to beforehand may still result in a resolution which the party may find unpalatable or less than desirable. But, at least the party would be rationally obliged to accept the resolution as the outcome of a process that he had agreed to be a party to. Can this process of impersonal nature of a rule be used as a device to test the ‘proper’ nature of a law. A law that is personal is ‘improper’ and ought to be repealed or reformed. A law that is ‘proper’ may remai...

Did the first thought originate from a virgin birth? or was she mere excrement and not a child? and did subsequent ones arise from a copulation of thoughts? how do I make sense of this orgy in the city of nought?