Duston Spear
Visual Artist-Writer based in Montague, Massachusetts. Debut novel BIRD GIRL publishing date August 2026 from Black Rose Writing.
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The Man in the Gold Frame
The difference between falling down a Google rabbit hole when I did a search a year ago and spending yesterday morning corresponding with ChatAI to learn more about this antique portrait—outlandish when it hung over the sofa in my father’s...
Book-Child
For many years, people visiting my studio—maybe confused, searching for an appropriate comment in reaction to the paintings I was showing them—would say, “You must think of them as your children.” This always struck me as absurd and unfound...
You O Queen
There are spring ants in my studio. The Combat instructions read: Leave the bait trap open so ants will eat the poison and take it back to their queen to kill them all.
Queen, they have a queen—I couldn’t do it.
I had a queen too—a sarca...
Portents
Portents
‘Stendhal syndrome’ is usually reserved for a psychosomatic reaction to a religious work, but I would feel comfortable using it for my response to seeing The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya; in perfect lighting, in a room dark...
The Long Leash
Now here’s Philip Guston’s backstory, as it was told to us Parsons School of Design students, as urban myth: a WPA painter, he worked in that super-Americana figurative mural style, the kind of everyman painting being done—arguably b...
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Visual Artist-Writer based in Montague, Massachusetts. Debut novel BIRD GIRL publishing date August 2026 from Black Rose Writing.
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