That Certain Buzz: hold me again, in the jadeite gaze at Ginny on Frederick
By Jacob Barnes
Art likes symbols. Among the various iterations of symbolic representation that proliferate through contemporary art are the metaphor (the bug represents the man), the simile (man is like a bug), and the analogue (bug is to man what man is to God). These are useful, if not didactic; they allow us to use art towards scrutinising ends, while generally abs…