"Sea Forest Labyrinth Prayer Circle Michael Stipe" - He has come to touch your beating heart. Passage by William George Paul & willipaul.studio

This is his show!

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"Patti Smith is present everywhere: a seven-inch single, lyrics, various photographs of her that Michael has taken over the years of their friendship. Other influences are present as well: pyrite cubes mirrored and sculpted in cardboard, a plastic figurine of the hunchback of Notre Dame, books on film and photography, texts by Jean Genet and Joan Didion, a People magazine with David Bowie on the cover, a Blade Runner comic book.

Warhol is here, as is Ginsberg, James Dean, Marlon Brando. And here is Jeremy Ayers again, not only as himself but in drag as Silva Thinn, part of Warhol's Factory. Michael calls Ayers his first love, and the man's recent passing, in October 2016, transformed this great unpacking of influences into a tribute of mourning. There is more death creeping among the ephemera: Michael's father, for one, and Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix, the photograph of the two accompanied by the lyrics to "Nature Boy," a song made famous by Nat King Cole."

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