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Two Minds of Love: @kdlang and Ellen Day Hale

by kkatsenis on May 15, 2015June 28, 2015

Nothing like an intense self-portrait by a woman artist and song by k.d. lang to get one’s intellectual juices flowing. At least, this is what happens to me when I look at this portrait. I examine it and the whole experience is so intensely raw and gutting that I think immediately of its melodic “self-portrait” […]

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k.d. lang’s Own Private “Raft of the Medusa”

by kkatsenis on January 24, 2015June 28, 2015

One of the things I like about music and art, is that one can fuse the older with the more modern. In doing this, new ideas and facets of both emerge. In this post, I want to juxtapose this painting by Gericault with k.d. lang’s Season of Hollow Soul. For die hard followers of this blog, […]

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Bienvenue Ingenue. @kdlang and the Death of the Ego Part 2

by kkatsenis on November 28, 2014July 24, 2017

This is part two of a series. Here is Part One if you have not read it. So as an example of the entire album of Ingenue being about one seeing the limits of the Ego and trying to let go, I’ll start with Still Thrives This Love. Now, I know there are many other interpretations of this song […]

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