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Normal History Vol. 736: The Art Of David Lester
Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 40-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. Presenting unrelated artifacts that prompt one to regard them as newly cohesive isn’t rooted in the jiggery-pokery of parlour tricks, but it does help if […]
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Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 40-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Presenting unrelated artifacts that prompt one to regard them as newly cohesive isn’t rooted in the jiggery-pokery of parlour tricks, but it does help if there is a fairly wide garden path available to lead visitors down.
This pairing may have me stumped. We have a song about two artists making a life together, and we have an illustration of what looks like a man and a woman arguing. Oh, wait.
“Art Was The Great Leveler” from Empathy For The Evil (M’lady’s, 2014) (download):
