Rain all day and then - around 6pm - a break in the clouds.

Still on the Maggie Nelson jag: The Art of Cruelty arrived on Friday and I've been working through it over the weekend. It is disturbing, fascinating and urgent by turns. Not at all what I expected (although I'm not so sure quite what I expected).

I worry about the amount of gruesome viewing such a project entails (an issue Nelson herself addresses early on). What's clear is that this is much more than simply an overview of some fairly extreme art. It's a covert manifesto and a vicious critique of American society, too.

Plenty here to plunder and ponder.

More soon.