Take a romp through the mind of a playwright who can't shake his writer's block when Mundelein Theatre presents "
Figments" by Billy St.
Mr Farrell may think ghosts are
figments of the imagination, but millions of people across the world have seen ghosts, and that list includes Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Charles, Sting, and even several Presidents of the United States.
Expertly shot by Knut Klassen and edited by Marc Aschenbrenner as though the camera were Bock's body or Bock's eyes were the camera, these shimmering, visionary
figments of an unstoppable imagination are critical to the ongoing debate on how to read and remember live art's history while contributing to a performance idiom of the future.
Expensive and flamboyant architecture, fountains, decor, statues and so-called pieces of art are usually
figments of committee claptrap.
After years of mysterious sightings, usually dismissed as being overweight family cats or
figments of the imagination, an Edinburgh pathologist has said he is convinced that a goose, handed to him by Essex police for examination, had fallen prey to a bigcat.
CONCEPT cars, those showpiece
figments of eccentric designers' maddest imaginings, rarely make it to complete reality.
A few of the cutouts have fallen off and the semenlike stain of the glue ghosts the shape of a body: These men are
figments of the imagination but also the vestiges of the muscular frames that blossomed in '50s physical-culture magazines (a kind of protoporn) and returned with a steroid-fueled vengeance in the '80s, sublimation of the wasting body of AIDS.
Somewhere between Brancusi-esque bases without their better halves and supertechnological "appliances" for a race of freaks, these freckly
figments seem neither purely aesthetic nor wholly functional: They linger somewhere uncomfortably in-between.
In the monumental Riding Around, 1969, three hooded figures--two smoking cigars--drive around an urban environment looking for "action." Although the roots of these figures go back to social-realist murals of Klansmen that Guston painted in the '30s, the hoods reborn in the late '60s seem less malevolent than quirky, even adorable, as
figments of his own character.
In the recent offering, Nietzsche was the hero, set upon by what may be
figments of his own fantasy.
What we get are psychedelic "fantasy doodles" (
figments of skeletons eating
figments of snakes strangling
figments of birds; copulating insects that are also war machines; O'Keeffe-like art nouveau floral arrangements as a mesh of sexual organs, etc.).
We began layering ourselves with protective covering, contriving ourselves as
figments of the public imagination, disembodying ourselves as "phone friends," withdrawing to our various Fortresses of Solitude like Supermen contemplating the properties of kryptonite.
Shooting stars and phosphorescence, perhaps a
figment who can say Did I see her shipping green seas, smie the porpoise at their play?
Feike Fidel, the thematic link, identifies himself as the author's creation, a
figment of the imagination, cast in the role of a would-be poet in search of the vision and the words for the poem that will ensure his immortality.
