The Contortionist I feel at home in the world of archetypes and hidden messages. I love puzzles and late night Mystery Theater . Perhaps this explains why I am drawn to and photograph certain motifs over and over again. Art from as early as 3,000 BC has been imbued with symbols and allegories that helped pass down stories and customs. Romans, as seen in my earlier blog "Of Gods and Goddesses" , perfected the use of secular allegorical symbols. And even during the height of the Renaissance through the 18th century, allegorical paintings were the modus operandi. Modern Art discarded the use of iconographic objects, except in the case of my very favorite periods of creativity: Dada, Cubism and Pop Art which employed the use of modern culture to stand in for the ancient symbols that had been utilized for centuries. The Clown As a photographer, amusement parks, circuses and local carnivals are such a hot bed of cultural archetypes, its hard not to captur...
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