Dinners and Nightmares figurine and Laura Dore

and Laura Dore

is both direct and oblique: rather miraculous considering the messy and murky waters of human experience it manages to navigate

Jason Pearson

the paintings examine the varying layers of human perception by manipulating planes of focus and the reliability of form and color

and Vex Clothing

Dinners and Nightmares figurine and Laura DoreDiane di Prima has long been recognized as one of the strongest voices of her generation, and one of the few women able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of lowlife bohemians and revolutionary mentalities shatter the conservative myths of the Fifties and lay bare the emerging sexual experimentation that would shape the Sixties.