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Scratch 12, 2009
8 x 10 in.
Scratchboard and artificial gems

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Till Könneker / Germany
Things Are (series), 2009
Print on handmade Japanese paper
signed and framed (limited edition)
ed. 4/10

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Carnivale, 2007
Ink and Mixed Media on Arches Paper
30 x 22 1/2 in.

Plume, 2007
Ink and Mixed Media on Arches Paper
30 x 22 1/2

Poof, 2007
Ink and Mixed Media on Arches Paper
30  x 22 1/2 in.

Sub-Split, 2008
Ink and Mixed Media on Arches Paper
20 1/2 x 15 in.

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Gagged (Carlos) © Onajide Shabaka
Acrylic on metal
24 x 36 in.

Embodying the allusive muses, this quartet of  classically composed nudes is a statement about  statements, art about sex, soft-core porn about  literature, and homage to one of the unsung  heroes of culture and gender theory.

Sententia: a single, pithy statement of general wisdom.
Metaphor: compares two things by speaking of one in terms of  the other.
Synecdoche: a metaphor in which the part stands for the whole.
Erotesis: a rhetorical question not explicitly answered because it  is obvious what answer is expected.
paraphrased from:
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
by Robert A. Harris

Northrop Frye proposed using the cardinal directions as an  organising principle for thinking about cultural constructs and the  myths we live by.
North: Logos, the intelligible world
East: Nous, the universal mind
South: Thanatos, death
West: Nomos, law or tradition.
for more info see:
Northrop Frye’s Writings On the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Northrop Frye, Imre Salusinszky, and Robert D. Denham

Bill Pusztai, © 2008
South: Synechdoche
Piezographic on archival paper
24 x 18 in. framed

Bill Pusztai, © 2008
North: Sententia
Piezographic on archival paper
24 x 18 in. framed

Bill Pusztai, © 2008
East: Metaphor
Piezographic on archival paper
24 x 18 in. framed

Bill Pusztai, © 2008
West: Erotesis
Piezographic on archival paper
24 x 18 in. framed