Jeremy Blake is missing, following suicide of gf/wife Options

[Miss Candy Darling]

Most of you know Jeremy Blake's work from Sea Change and Punch-Drunk Love. I hadn't heard this till just now, but his girlfriend or wife committed suicide recently, and it seems he may have, too. (She's reported to be his girlfriend in this article, but I have read her blog before and she referred to him as her husband.)

http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2007/07/jer...ke_missing.html

July 20, 2007
Jeremy Blake: Missing

Jeremy Blake is missing off New York's Rockaway Beach. The news initially comes via this unconfirmed report on LA Observed. The NYPD confirmed to me that as of this morning, they consider Blake to be missing.

The details at LAO are correct: This past Tuesday, a week after Theresa Duncan, Blake's longtime girlfriend, committed suicide, a man called 911 to report that he saw someone swimming out to sea. Blake's clothes and wallet were found nearby on Rockaway Beach. Blake has not been heard from since. Duncan's funeral will be held in Detroit tomorrow.

Blake is known for photographs and DVDs that mix visual narrative with abstract forms. He had a 2005 solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, created an abstract sequence for the film Punch Drunk Love, and he worked with Beck on the CD Sea Change. This fall Blake is scheduled to have shows at his New York City gallery Kinz, Tillou and Feigen, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

I read Theresa Duncan's blog sometimes. She posted things that were so involved...about the CIA and Scientology and all kinds of interconnected plots....I really couldn't focus on it enough to follow it all. I thought she might be nuts but also as far as I knew maybe it was all true. I feel stunned by this.

Theresa Duncan's blog is here.

She also seemed to have a strange thing about Kate Moss.

[toadstool]

I guess if you're going to believe any groups are stalking, you neither the CIA or Scientology are strange choices.

I think "extremely cordial" would work, if they weren't really close buddies but they had been exceptionally polite in a very superficial way. googling the phrase is an interesting exercise if you haven't done it already. the first page BBC news result shows it might just be something that PR people say. There are a few more similarly newsy results on the second page. the article in question actually shows up on page three!