“Under Construction, An Ekphrastic Essay” by Richard Hoffman and JD Scrimgeour
This month’s collaborative video essay “Under Construction, An Ekphrastic Essay” by Richard Hoffman and JD Scrimgeour assays Salvador Dali’s horrific painting, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, Premonition of Civil War (1936),” which was first exhibited in England six months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Hoffman and Scrimgeour chronicle Dali’s prophetic vision of what Robert Burns called “man’s
