07/10/2026
One of the most intriguing and bewildering pieces of itinerant folk art I’ve ever come across.
Reminiscent of David Lynch’s usage of the Venus de Milo in Twin Peaks, this assemblage was found in an abandoned Rebekahs lodge in Michigan in the 1980s, dating circa the 1940s.
The works usage of a plaster replica of the Venus de Milo in the Louvre museum, is back dropped by crushed red velvet and encased in a hand carved frame, whose emblem is eerily similar to Twin Peaks’ “Judy” ace of spades.
Attached to the back, strangely, were two photographs, one of the lodge members, the other depicting members of the Manhattan Project (See Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer for reference). The only apparent connection between the two photographs is the word “Trinity” inscribed upon the lodge members photographs, but who knows what else might’ve been afoot at here.
I exhibited this work once, in a Twin Peaks tribute exhibition I curated in 2019 entitled “No Stars” which featured one of the greatest vocalists walking the face of the planet, Rebekah Del Rio, along with Daniel Goncalves, Alexis Karl, Barry William Hale, Matthew Dutton and others. See here —-> https://express.adobe.com/page/LVg7eWj2LmLGI/
