the Porkopolis blog
Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.
I thought of the engulfing silence always created by cold and falling snow and how I would soon dispel it with the tremolo of Briggs & Stratton. I looked out the front window of our house and imagined myself as the pig in a watercolor by James Wyeth. “Winter Pig” looks out on that same engulfing silence from his front window.
The Cook by Italian artist and designer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (ca.1527 – 1593) has been added to the Porkopolis Museum of Art. In this work the painting of a platter of roast suckling pigs and fowls, when inverted, shows us the image of a man’s head – the cook. This work is one of Arcimboldo’s many [...]
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter, or musician.
Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, (1945).
