A good friend and very talented scribe, Ada Lee Halofsky, often writes and produces short pieces for NPR-affiliated programs. Today she broadcast a short profile on the artist Hackett (at right, in a photo by Ada), which can be found online on Minnesota Public Radio's Sound Money "Day in the Work Life" site.A while back, when browing the Artnet.com magazine pages, I'd come across Hackett's intense photo (taken by Mary Barone at a Deitch Project opening), and immediately saw that we favored each other, from the wild locks to the gray-threaded goattee to our bridgeless noses, though his gaze, particularly in that Barone photo, is a lot more penetrating (those eyes are sending out rays!) than my own. In short, as I my partner Curtis and I agreed, I was looking at my quasi-doppelgänger.
This recognition led me to look out for Hackett's work and learn more about him, but until Ada's audio piece, with its accompanying photographs, I hadn't seen any of it. Now I have. You also can see Hackett's work at the Madagascar Institute site, a Brooklyn-based art combine he belongs to. It's wild--check it out!
woah, i didn't see the resemblance at all in the first image (the one in your blog, but in this second one, i totally do. how does that feel? do you feel somehow connected?
ReplyDeleteI do. I also heard from Ada that he'd suffered a severe facial injury when one of his projects exploded, so he's had extension facial reconstuction, AND he's been branded a "terrorist" by the Feds. They still have his computer! I am now intent on meeting him. I love your blog Sweat (old and new version), BTW!
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