In "Reds, Whites, and the Blues" DiSalvo commemorates his visit to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC. In this painting he fills his own silhouette with names of Vietcong who perished and includes the name of two of his family members whose deaths…
Enjoy the cyclical nature of the 11 canvases that comprise the Kandyskin Chronicles Collection. In the artist’s own words, they are meant “[t]o characterise the 20th Century "avantgardes" in terms of the seven deadly sins. Salomé dances away her…
III. READJOYCE
In a homage to William Byrd, James Joyce and Marilyn Monroe, the cardinal invites the sons of art to rejoyce, for now begins Kandyskin-Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils, seven metamorphoses, unveiling the seven mysteries and seven…
IV. PRIDE
Sistine Eve takes the apple from the Serpent, as the wails of a saxophone trace through air the fall of the first veil, pride, the Michelangelesque outdoing of Nature, and recommend a Socratic examination oflife. The auto-autopsy of art…
V. ANGER
Irate dadactive pentaphonous quintettes,
of quivering quibblearrows d'art at her second veil
with dancing and pranksin
gliboleros, glissando.
(transcription of the text in the painting)