Guns and Ghosts: the Winchester Witch Project
Page Ar38, February 27, 2005 Guns and Ghosts: the movie-editing program Avid, and then After Sarah Winchester's husband The Winchester Witch Project relayed from the computer onto DVD's. died of tuberculosis, a spiritualist told her By Steven Henry Madoff "Fluidity describes the feel of my that she was being haunted by angry work, the way I put things together," Mr. shooting victims, who had taken her The house that Blake, 33, said on a recent visit to New husband in revenge. She was told to move repeating rifles built York. Tall, with uncombed brown hair, a West, build a house and keep on building inspires a haunting set few days' beard and aviator glasses, he sat rooms to confuse the ghosts and keep of plasma ‘paintings.’ by a glowing plasma screen at the gallery them at bay. Amazingly, with a burden of of his Chelsea dealer, Feigen guilt worthy of Lady Macbeth, she did it. She bought the house in San Jose and JEREMY BLAKE took on its renovation as a restless, THE WINCHESTER TRILOGY creative and unending task for her literal San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. salvation, a way of living that seemed like Through August. another compelling symbol to Mr. Blake: what it means to be an artist. For the last three years, Jeremy Blake has "Jeremy's early work was so seductive been looking at ghosts. Blending that while it was praised, some thought it paintings, photographs, film, music and was maybe too beautiful, too nice," said sound on banks of computers, he makes Benjamin Weil, the curator who his spirits flit and hover like spectral organized the Winchester exhibition in stalkers.
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