This is Chapter Three of my PhD dissertation (thus the fourth on-line following the Prelude and Chapters One and Two which I already posted). This chapter is in comic form and in it I begin to apply my theory to my own work as well as that of others.
The Chapters are permanently archived on my website here, but I am posting a notification on Sharkforum as I finish them and they are critiqued and approved. (I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip Urspung at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My second reader is Prof. Andreas Langlotz at the University of Basel, Switzerland.) This is also to offer a location where any reader who wants to can post comments, most of which will go into my final dissertation project in some fashion. I would love your comments, criticism, tangential thoughts and more!
Link to chapter here (in pdf).
Please be aware that by commenting here, you are giving me permission to use your words, with proper citation including your name, in some fashion in my final book and exhibition.
All elements are (c) and TM 2010 by Mark Staff Brandl.
I find Excursus to be a breakthrough. Your works, such as "Shut up and Paint" and the panel installation for Out of Sequence seemed to create a conflict with the "weight of words" of your dissertation and other writings. A balance seems to have been reached through Excursus.
Personally, I've always related to the expression of "a life lived artistically". More than words themselves, the comic form, in your hands, seems to be the perfect vehicle of conveyance.