Jeremy Blake wrote a love note, removed his clothes and swam out to sea one week after his love, Theresa Duncan, committed suicide.
Blake was a guest in Ann Arbor as a part of the Penny Stamps Distingushed Visitors Series operated by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design, March 25, 2004. I saw him speak of his work... animating as a painter paints... and on film projects such as Punch Drunk Love. I was impressed with his art and his accomplishments at a relatively young age.
Romantic or insane? I would argue both. And Shakespeare would agree.
Maybe I would do the same.
Beck "Round the Bend" video by Jeremy Blake
Tragedy usually goes hand in hand with great art...
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