Comments on: Morbid Interest

By: cautivatrix

cautivatrix — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:03:52 +0000

Witkin reshuffle de Sade’s libertine tales of lust, murder, madness and mayhem that mirror the savagery of American imperialism.
Don’t be superficial sister. Witkins wants you to dump your boring ‘husband’ and make love to a dead soldier.

By: Elena

Elena — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:05:47 +0000

i googled him. most of his images remind me of eraserhead. a lot of the themes come out of the BDSM community. there is plenty stronger imagery out there. pushing the limits of taste or convention is much harder than it used to be. there is not much original content in that respect. what that leaves for art is composition and a certain metonymic slide. i’m not much qualified to critique the first and too lazy to try the second so i guess i’m done.

By: judson

judson — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:25:59 +0000

I think it’s sorta unfair to blame the fetish. Joel, I’ve known him for 25 years, was experimenting with this type of imagary for quite a long time before anyone glamed on to him, the fetish, whatever. I to get tired of violent images, but there was a time whem It got me very excited. And I’m not as intrigued by Joel’s images as I used to be, and I’ve told him so. But he is an artist in the most elemental way; eccentric, boring at times but very good at what he does.

By: Suebob

Suebob — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:00:41 +0000

Too late for me. Ick.

By: Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:52:02 +0000

I guess I now know whose name not to Google.

By: Suebob

Suebob — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:07:58 +0000

Who?

I guess I will have to google him.