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“The real poet studies the world as it is: lovely, terrible, sensible, grotesque; and would ask for no other in its place. Humor is the final sign and seal of seriousness for it is a proof that reality is held in honor and in love.”   -- Mark van Doren

 

Charles Parness
Ship of Fools, 1991, oil on canvas.

“I want to give form to feelings that come from memory. This takes the shape of cosmic and comic vignettes that involve myself. The humor moderates the ego, it is me in there and I’m not sure that I’m supposed to be there. Shouldn’t it be, say George Washington or some other mover and shaker instead of this clown and bungler?”
--Charles Parness

 

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