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A SHORT CHRONOLOGY OF NATHAN FINKELSTEIN*

Cursed by a rabbi one day when still a child, Nathan, called Zeitgeist, was stunned into another dimension — Space collapsed! — and from that moment forth would see where others saw a face only the whirling sparks, the Shekinah of divinity. With the shameless, unsavory tricks of a prestidigitator he learned the art of scrawling with light, that others could read in his luminous handwriting the Palimpsest of the Face! Around this exploding head he collected neural daemons whom he trained to dive into and burst out of the surface, leaving traves that resemble Kabuki maquillage. This he developed to such a degree that any one of his photographs can be read as a lecture on astronomy. He became — willed himself to become — the neurotransmitting Gnat of Zeitgeist, preying on nanoseconds. His world, like that of his precursors, dabblers in (glossy) Darkness & Light, Benvenuto Cellini and Gilgamesh, became concentric, Nathocentric, phallopetal, I and eye.

An urgency, a fantastic, hermetic lubricious curiosity, similar to the interest a Madagascan mantis takes in its seductive victims, bristles through these pictures. It is the transvestism of the soul that Philip IV saw in Velasquez. Anxious, pantocratic fisheyes that beam so plaintively out of heads. The Infanta, the Prince's Dog, a dwarf, Mother Teresa. And it is that same ventriloquil passion that transforms every image, the ability to look out of another's face with your own eyes.

David Dalton

*From German Fingerzeig (the art of pointing a finger at something).

Photographer's Statement:

Al Aronowitz was a friend of mine.