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walton ford

25 March 2011 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 3 comments

“Thylacines were mysterious terrifying phantoms in the minds of Tasmanian settlers. I wanted to create a delirious image that suggested the thylacine’s doom. The painting could be interpreted as the hallucination of either the man or the beast.

—Walton Ford: via Art Daily

The Speculations of Mr. Spectator

  • the Folly of him who lets his Fancy place him in distance Scenes untroubled and uninterrupted, is preferable to that of him forcing a Belief... 11 years ago
  • Books...are the Presents to Posterity of those who are yet unborn.... 11 years ago
  • the World is a Copy or a Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of the first Being...those Ideas...are a Transcript of the World... 11 years ago
  • 'The Time was when all the honest Whore-masters in the Neighborhood would have rose against the Cuckolds to my Rescue' -letter... 11 years ago
  • a father, who having arrived at great Riches by his own Industry, took delight in nothing but his Money... 11 years ago
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