The Magician depends on the "blindness" of his audience. We do not expect the Magician to be blind…
What questions does this image promote? Is the blind man truly a Magician? Why is he protected by the massive Jacket? Whose jacket was it? Is this assemblage a sculpture? Why is it placed in the landscape? Why two canes? Why no shoes? Why is the jacket empty? No hands show from the cuffs…
Bare feet to transverse holy ground? Is this not a desecrated landscape? What is his magic?
Clearly Bak is the painter of questions. The powerful jacket seems to suggest great force and enhances the fragility of the figure. Add blindness and we too are in the dark.
Welcome to the world of Bak!
Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, January 16, 2024
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Are we all blind to the magician's sleight of hand tricks?
Are we fooled? Do we want to be fooled?
Is the magician in his pajamas – and surrounded by his more formal jacket?
He holds his cane and walking stick, and another is on the ground.
Can he replicate the stick? And to what end?
The magic of survival remains at the core of Bak’s art. How? Why? What is the artist's commission?
To magically call up questions about the meaning and purpose of life?
How did the magician do it?
We are left with questions.
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