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« on: March 30, 2005, 11:17:33 PM »
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The Winchester Mystery House is a tourist attraction devoted to the unexpectedly macabre themes of spirituality, madness, and sprawl. Haunted by her deceased child and husband and the countless who had been shot dead by her family's wares, Winchester was instructed by a psychic advisor to head west from Boston and build a monument to contain those restless, tortured souls. The 160-room estate, built almost like an architectural crazy quilt, is a gingerbread labyrinth with stairs that lead nowhere and spooky spiderweb patterns in the stained glass.
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Winchester and her iconic home are the subject of artist Jeremy Blake's compelling, abstract trio of films, the Winchester Trilogy, currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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...Blake seems more a deeply thoughtful, serious artist who reveals that his inspirations for the trilogy stemmed from heady sources - from reading volumes on American history and studying architecture and philosophy - as well as from pop culture (Dark Shadows and Raquel Welch as a gunslinger in the 1972 rape-revenge western Hannie Caulder; the latter will screen April 14 at the museum).
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You can read the entire article here:
McMystery Mansion
It's actually quite interesting...
The Winchester Mystery House is a tourist attraction devoted to the unexpectedly macabre themes of spirituality, madness, and sprawl. Haunted by her deceased child and husband and the countless who had been shot dead by her family's wares, Winchester was instructed by a psychic advisor to head west from Boston and build a monument to contain those restless, tortured souls. The 160-room estate, built almost like an architectural crazy quilt, is a gingerbread labyrinth with stairs that lead nowhere and spooky spiderweb patterns in the stained glass.
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Winchester and her iconic home are the subject of artist Jeremy Blake's compelling, abstract trio of films, the Winchester Trilogy, currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
...
...Blake seems more a deeply thoughtful, serious artist who reveals that his inspirations for the trilogy stemmed from heady sources - from reading volumes on American history and studying architecture and philosophy - as well as from pop culture (Dark Shadows and Raquel Welch as a gunslinger in the 1972 rape-revenge western Hannie Caulder; the latter will screen April 14 at the museum).
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You can read the entire article here:
McMystery Mansion
It's actually quite interesting...