I met Cobo on Facebook, not him, nothing of him , but his images flooded the airwaves. Obsessive, dark, full of white heat, and grey smoke.
\nLayers of lace, deeper levels of irregular ritualistic pain. It perplexed me this flow-on voyeuristic event. Who could this guy be? What is he \u00a0made of?
\nThere was enough inventive poetic distance in the work that it resonated outside the ordinary boundaries of the prurient.
\nThis was no sex fiend, nor a guy who was looking for a hook up, hung over.
\nThis was work which was drawn in to its subject by blood letting magnets, cleansing leeches, not to mention a certain odd classism. It was informed by art, but art was not the point, ritual was.
\nThe incense was sour, the flesh untouched by desire. There was clarity within the mire, a fire within the cool, which stimulated me to get in touch.
\nSo we faced off.
\nHe started to send me\u00a0ambitious missives, his career obsession. His hunger came forward.
\nHe sent me book designs, all bad. He knew not what he was up to, he spoke in fantasies, and he spoke of illusion, of a theatre, of drive.
\nI backed off, but didn\u2019t want to miss anything. I was completely seduced. The anticipation of the unknown had a thrilling undulant heat. I couldn’t help myself.
\nSo we continued…
\nAnd now this…
\nWhat is\u00a0it that we are seeing?
\nA sad line of sinews.
\nA hole in the universe.
\nThe burning bush.
\nPain crumbled in front of a TV set.
\nSex.
\nPrimary urges.
\nRivers of tarnished cloth, you could smell despair. Clothing which in an inverted form would be priestly. But there was no collar in evidence, no guilt, nothing to repent.
\nBut relentless, the under-darkness flowed as if a river of escape. But there is no escape from ritual.
\nThere is no release from pleasure.
\nThere can be no moral pain in an underground throbbing.
\nBut therein lies absence, dark frivolity, heavy breathing, a sodden wink.
\nExit pleasure — enter pain.<\/p>\n
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\nText: Larry Fink<\/b>
\n2016<\/b><\/p>\n
\nHardcover package<\/p>\n