Mister Poganynibbana
Theta•Sep 05, 2025 — Oct 25, 2025
FROM THE DESK OF LUCY BULL•Sep 05, 2025 — Oct 25, 2025
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“It is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change.”^{1}
—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Buddhas and ancestors of old were as we; we in the future shall be buddhas and ancestors.”
—Dogen, “Eihei Kosu Hotsuganmon”
On the first day of ninth grade printmaking class, my teacher, Mr. Pogany, told us to close our eyes and draw a cat. My cat ended up with a severed head. I cut the pieces out and inked them up in an ugly combination of red, green, and tan, placed them on a plexiglass plate, and we printed it. Pogany, delighted, praised my print. My sense of what art could be expanded instantly. Art could be improvised, accidental, absurd, clumsy, whimsical, disturbing. It could be funny. It could be liberatory.
In the summer of 2022, I learned that Pogany had died in an email from Victoria Munroe Fine Art,…
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Mister Poganynibbana
Theta•Sep 05, 2025 — Oct 25, 2025
FROM THE DESK OF LUCY BULL•Sep 05, 2025 — Oct 25, 2025
Press Release
“It is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change.”^{1}
—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
“Buddhas and ancestors of old were as we; we in the future shall be buddhas and ancestors.”
—Dogen, “Eihei Kosu Hotsuganmon”
On the first day of ninth grade printmaking class, my teacher, Mr. Pogany, told us to close our eyes and draw a cat. My cat ended up with a severed head. I cut the pieces out and inked them up in an ugly combination of red, green, and tan, placed them on a plexiglass plate, and we printed it. Pogany, delighted, praised my print. My sense of what art could be expanded instantly. Art could be improvised, accidental, absurd, clumsy, whimsical, disturbing. It could be funny. It could be liberatory.
In the summer of 2022, I learned that Pogany had died in an email from Victoria Munroe Fine Art,…
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