a milkmaid at mount joy milked the cow with the crumpled horn.
who milked the cow with the crumpled horn?
a milkmaid at mount joy
"the house that jack built" draws its name from the famous children's rhyme, this is the house that jack built/nowiki. in this series, massey intersperses the rhyme with his own lived experience and exploration of male sexuality. the opening image in his photographic suite shows a replica of massey's toronto studio with its filing cabinets, work table, stool and ladder to a loft. overlaid atop this interior view is a montage of images that reflect on each verse of the rhyme, but with some unexpected twists. the verse "this is the maiden all forlorn" is illustrated by the image of a female stripper, turned away from the viewer with her hands over her head. the "cock that crowed in the morn" is an erect phallus and the "cow with the crumpled horn" is, improbably, a rhinoceros.
john massey (artist)
bullet::::- the horns of the stag poached by shakespeare









































bullet::::- the shell of the tortoise that supposedly killed aeschylus









































bullet::::- apis, an egyptian bull-deity









































bullet::::- "the cow with the crumpled horn" from the nursery rhyme "this is the house that jack built"









































bullet::::- the cow that jumped over the moon from the nursery rhyme "hey diddle diddle"









































bullet::::- a griffin









































bullet::::- the dove that brought the olive branch to noah to signify that the flood was receding









































bullet::::- grip, the raven that belonged to barnaby rudge and later inspired edgar allan poe's "the raven"
a virtuoso's collection