Photo of the Week

This is not a portrait of my living room.

It depicts part of the exhibit space for the Existential Dread art show a few weekends ago here in dear old Jersey City. Click the photo for the full effect. You'll want to, because this picture perfectly captures the totality of our current societal zeitgeist. As gridlock descends upon Washington and the economy continues to spin its wheels in the economic muck, as war rages on in the Middle East, this image serves as a touchstone, defining, embodying, and (dare I say?) explaining the mood of the moment. Like Picasso's Guernica or Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, it both elicits and answers the question, "What the hell?"

As we teeter-totter on the edge of whatever country (nay, planet) we're going to be next in this new millennium, this photo of mine speaks volumes about the way we live now. So hurrah for photography. Hooray for Art.