The Mirror Held Up In Darkness  (Spring 2008)

A collection of prose poems, alchemical and surreal, very surely haunted in every aspect, and written under the feverish pendulum of desire:

The moth spells your name in candle wax made of twilight, and your clothing scrolled out of three white feathers x-rayed with kisses of curare, revealing the premonitions of transition from one mirror to the next, from one breath, one ablution, one sinister approach to another, and all numbered according to the pathos of each vanishing object, each object fashioned by dreams and stalked by jewelers and daughters in black, and hung from the rafters like a feverish embrace that goes on forever...

Antibodies

A Surrealist Novella  (Summer 2008)

Inspired by a series of images by the surrealist Argentine poet Alejandro Puga, this long text invokes the amazing world which surrounds the transparent "magiciens" of those images, and opens up a whole new world where the essence of enchantment becomes the flight pattern of successful navigation, through a very perilous reality:

The intoxication of the species is still to come. You imagine what is still as yet to be read. You fall asleep going up the stairs. The stars lay deep inside, down where the wolves groom themselves and drool a distant light. The bride is always a bride and always being robed. You leave before your time, and return much too late for illusions. It is the water of your desire that dazzles the different dimensions of how you think, and how you are thought and hunted, or haunted by the approach of falling, or flying.

The Secret Art of Photomorphosis  (Winter 2009)

"I found myself writing this treatise as a summation of something I worked on for almost 30 years. It was a fitting conclusion, a closing of the work, and it seemed to me to be a primary example of the alchemical spirit through the process of Photomorphosis under the influence of surrealism."

There is always the Wedding Night that prefigures the golden hour, the central inclusion running like a myth through the interior landscape, where the real and the imaginary come to feed at the same table, bathe in the same water and embrace under the same light. This interior model, at the heart of photomorphosis, provides the most desirable place, the Red Table, upon which all things are conjured...

"The contribution of Bogartte to the field of experimental photography can be already considered of major importance.

"Bogartte's work is like the point of a lightning rod that simultaneously attracts the legendary storms of the past and those which are to come... He is affecting the machines that will dream." J.H. Matthews.

"Masques" (New)

"... Concealment, the function with which we associate their use initially, as we imagine donning a masque, yielding to another when we think of the performance of a theatrical masque, which implicates masks in something that transcend’s their ability to hide in the process of transforming them into agents of revelation. Neither an instrument of concealment nor an explicative one, a Misiano-Genovese masque is an implicative phenomenon.

"... The masque is an oneiric object. As much, it is the objectification not so much of a dream as of what Sigmund Freud called the dream work. It marks the welling up in conciousness of liberative forces that have succeeded in evading inhibitve censorship of the creative impulse." –– JH Matthews

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Excavations  (New)

Excavations are collages made using a method developed in 1985 by Richard Misiano-Genovese, in which pictures or images are glued together in layers, and then a layer or layers are ripped in places, revealing the underlying image.

"One may at first think that Misiano-Genovese invites us to the questionable pleasures of vandalism. But that’s not the case. Or not that much. Because when looking closer, one reaches the evidence that what is violent and destructive in Misiano-Genovese’s art always finally reverses itself in a shimmering of innocence. In the depths of his tearings, how devouring and raging they may be - and are - always the silky shadow of a dawn is passing." P. Petiot

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ISBN 978-0-6151-7661-1

Dreamwhite  (Recently Released)

Dreamwhite is a series of images selected from a photographic odyssey spanning over four years time with the execution of hundreds of images pared down to this handful. It is a fluid, free-form experience in which the only constant was the abreaction theatre, the drama-play, the silent dialogue between photographer and model. The meaning you find shall be your own. The work speaks for itself.

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