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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Freemasonry: cracking the code in Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow"


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In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the Thomas Cole painting "The Oxbow"(1836) and muse on its use of the signs and symbols of his life in freemasonry. Are they a secrete code? Do they get us closer to the heart of the painting? Are we all looking at the same world here? Through a reading of the painting, I hope to take us to a conversation about our subjectivity and our deep need to control our understanding of the world. 

I hope you enjoy. 

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