adele lack

Many years ago i watched part of a movie.

Got distracted.

And never thought to revisit it.

But one thing stuck with me for many years and that was the artwork used within the story.

Almost all films have crap art.

I don't know why this is.

But it's true.

Maybe the production team can't be bothered to search out someone with actual skill or they don't feel it necessary.

Which is both insulting and wrong.

As an 'artist' myself, it makes me cringe every time i watch a supposed 'genius' struggle to get recognition for their work when it clearly lacks any of the qualities that would merit acclaim.

(sounds shitty but some people just don't have what it takes to be a lauded artist. Myself included)

Or even worse, they do get the praise and it makes me want to kick the screen because everybody's an idiot that's clearly gone selectively blind.

Hollywood, Tv Land, please stop this.

It's making me sad.

However, in Charlie Kaufman's overtly celebrated filmic work, Synecdoche, New York he uses the ridiculously sublime work of Alex Kanevsky.

An artist i greatly admire and only mildly curse at night for being so damn talented.

But at the time of seeing Synecdoche, i wasn't aware of Kanevsky and so his work, even in its miniaturised form, was lost to me as i'd also forgotten the name of the movie i'd been watching.

Early onset dementia, it's a total downer.

Later, during university i found him again whilst trawling the library for 'inspiration'*, along with the likes of Marlene Dumas, Jenny Saville and Sophie Jodoin but i couldn't remember why his work was so familiar to me.

Until, due to the sad passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, i got the chance to see some of Synecdoche again as his career was widely celebrated on various film channels.

(still not the whole thing though. Don't ask why, i don't even know)

And there, right at the beginning of the movie, was Catherine Keener painting microscopic Alex Kanevskys.