Politics, Art, and “Paradox”

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“Vision of art.” “King for a day.” “Looking for that last big idea.” These are just a few of the smashed together words and phrases that make up John Wilkes Booth’s head in Christian Verdun’s online art piece “paradox.” The work is, in the artist’s own words, “a Burroughs style cut-up poetry collage which forms the picture of Abraham Lincoln Assassination at Ford Theater.” This work took three years to create.

To view “paradox” just click the link, then click the picture to zoom in. You can explore the text while up close by moving your cursor, though taking in the whole poem will take some time (albeit probably not three years).

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is a co-owner of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →