Ben Dunkle’s Blog

Month: April 2018

  • LIRR

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    It started as I raced toward the escalator, trying to make it up to the train. They were getting on, only one of them casting a glance backward. Her eyes were deep and wet and blue and soft, the warm sun glinting from their epicenters. Then the mechanism of things pulled me away; I noted…

  • From my new stuff

    From my new stuff

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  • Art as Anthropology part 1

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    I often think of Picasso’s famous quote, “Art is the sum of my destructions”. I’ve always gotten that. Whenever I make art, I feel like the second I’m close to that perfect line, shade, shape or texture, there’s all this pressure that I’m gonna fuck up. When that happens, I imagine a little Picasso sitting…