Comments for Jay Jurisich

Comment on Snark 19.4 by jay

jay — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:00:47 +0000

Menippean satire is a term broadly used to refer to prose satires that are rhapsodic in nature, combining many different targets of ridicule into a fragmented satiric narrative similar to a novel. The term is used by classical grammarians and by philologists mostly to refer to satires in prose (cf. the verse Satires of Juvenal and his imitators). The form is named after the Greek cynic Menippus...

Comment on Piltdown Manifesto by jay

jay — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:48:55 +0000

Here is a blog post from 7.27.07 with a pic of this painting in progress.

Comment on Mare aux Songes by jay

jay — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:19:39 +0000

See the January 22, 2007 issue of the New Yorker for the article Digging for Dodos [abstract] by Ian Parker. The now extinct dodo bird was only found on the island of Mauritius, and ground zero for finding dodo skeletons is the Mare aux Songes, or "Pond of Dreams".

Comment on Second Sack by jay

jay — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:45:12 +0000

This drawing was the first of a new phase of word drawings and paintings, which grew out of the activity of just writing and listing words and phrases on paper.