Eyegiene Snapshot #1: The First in a Series

There are artists out their that surf an eyegienic aesthetic, that fathom the depths of an optic/ocular cognitive Oceania--Philadelphia's Stephen Powers is one of these visionary painters. Click the image on your left to hit his blog/site; an archive of his urban eruptions/interruptions is here.

Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race, is my follow-up book to Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America--it is presently in preparation for the University of Texas Press.

High Fashion Chicana Metamorphosis: Eva Longoria in Citizen K Magazine

There are high-resolution scans of the fashion spread here (other versions are here). The most curious image for the purposes of Eyegiene is the one above. It is a montage of three shots of Eva, as "patient," "doctor/cinematographer (16mm, no less)/voyeur," and gurney attendant. Most of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America was a meditation on the history, consequences, and legacy of Mexican figuration in the mass media--Ruven Afanador, an illustrious fashion photographer from Bogotá, Colombia, has, with his brilliant lens and his equally compelling Mexican-American model/actress, said all I said there, and all I can hope to say in my next volume, Eyegiene, with a few snaps of his camera and maybe a quick session with photoshop.