David Melamed : An Inward Portrait
by Jonathan Melamed
What can one say about a man of few words? Very little. My father has spent his life as I know it trying to improve the day after next. Everything he does is to better his life and his life’s work. He has spent a decade creating a marvelous fortress in the middle of an urban slum, pouring his blood and sweat into its walls with hopes of rejuvenating its once glamourous facade. He does this not for money, but for himself, to make his quality of life easier. The one thing he values above all else is freedom, freedom to do as he pleases when he pleases. He has never been one for other people’s rules. In fact he has never been one for other people.
My father is an artist. Finding aesthetic properties in things others overlook, he has compiled an immense collection of paintings, sculptures, and installations. When looked at in chronological order you can see an increasingly bizarre pattern. Each piece gets......
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