From 2003 to 2015, I ran Eyeteeth, an art blog that combined quick hits with original essays and musings. Occasionally, I’ll find an old post and resurface it here.

“In the age of derivatives, reasserting an original: John Yang's Blindman's Bluff”

Back in July 2010, I stumbled upon familiar-looking graffiti: a sleepwalking boy stenciled on a boxcar in Minneapolis. I’d seen it in Berlin years earlier… and somewhere else that I couldn’t quite recollect. In this piece, I tracked down this ubiquitous image to an album cover by Sigur Ros, the Icelandic band, which apparently used a photo by the late John Yang without permission, according to his daughter, Naomi, half of the late-’80s indie band, Galaxie 500.