{"id":16982,"date":"2024-08-13T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16982"},"modified":"2024-08-13T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T23:48:41","slug":"episode-600-joe-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-600-joe-coleman","title":{"rendered":"Episode 600 – Joe Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 600:
\nJoe Coleman<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I don’t step back that often when I’m in there, because I’m inside this tiny bit of the universe. For me, that’s what living things are: endless world within world within world within world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>For my 600th episode, the great artist Joe Coleman<\/a> joins the show to celebrate his phenomenal new career-spanning retrospective book, A DOORWAY TO JOE: The Art of Joe Coleman<\/a> (Fantagraphics). We talk about art, mortality, mythography, history, the corruption of the flesh, the nature of evil, his Odditorium<\/a> & the power of relics, Dr. Mombooze-o<\/a>‘s send-off for his dead parents, playing Whac-A-Mole with T-cell lymphoma<\/a>, getting arrested for being an Infernal Machine, taxi-driving in NYC’s Travis Bickle era, the inspiration of the Hubble telescope, the pagan Celtic roots in Irish Catholicism, what it’s like to work on one square-inch of a painting for 8 hours at a time, our respective appearances on the Uncle Floyd Show<\/a>, playing in the Steel Tips<\/a> with Patrick McDonnell<\/a> & Karen O’Connell, and how he found his love and muse in Whitney Ward<\/a>. (Also, this one’s got an interminable intro, so jump to the 15:45 mark to start the conversation.)<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a> And go lose yourself in A DOORWAY TO JOE<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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“Even when my paintings are based on a historical subject, I still approach it like a self-portrait.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n