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John Amelchenko

JOHN AMELCHENKO is a visual artist and writer based in New Brunswick, NJ.

Power for Power

By John Amelchenko

You turn your head, and the best-dressed man in the room is about to puke his guts out right next to you. He hovers over himself as Norman Westberg hovers over his guitar: bored, vacant, and softly angry all at once; a crudely drawn cross on the back of an amber Telecaster catches the light often when he sways.

Photo by Arno Declair.
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