Part of Aidan Hickey’s Ulysses series, which was exhibited in Zurich, at the UB Law, as part of the exhibit “James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Law” (April 15 to May 18, 2025).
“At the National Library, a group including Stephen and George Russell (AE) discuss literary and philosophical ideas. Stephen’s original theory about Hamlet is a central topic. In Homer, Odysseus must pass between a sea-monster, Scylla, and a whirlpool, Charybdis. For Joyce, the tension is between Stephen’s Aristotelian position and AE’s Platonic mysticism.
Among the aims of Braque and Picasso’s Synthetic Cubism is the merger of contradictory perspectives within a coherent design. This seemed to me the only manner of painting that could hope to symbolise an intellectual duel.
When the debate is brought to an abrupt conclusion, by Bloom and vulgar Mulligan, saucy-postcard master Donald McGill gets a small cameo role.”
Aidan Hickey