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Posted Jul. 27, 2007, 5:36 p.m. ET
Devastating News About Artist Couple Theresa Duncan & Jeremy Blake
By Carol Lee
The tragic and disturbing news (The New York Times article) of the art star couple Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan has caught us all off-guard. The 40-year-old Duncan who committed suicide on July 10 was a digital artist who created the award winning CD-Rom Chop Suey and a blogger of The Wit of the Staircase. Her boyfriend and digital/video artist Jeremy Blake was last seen at the Rockaway Beach on July 17 supposedly walking into the ocean leaving his clothes, wallet and a suicide note behind. The mysterious disappearance of Blake and the many speculations on the reasons of their demise have unnerved the art and media communities. The latest L.A. Times report reveled on a theory that the couple had been in a Scientology-related state of paranoia before their last days. They even contacted Beck who is a well-known scientologist and whose Sea Change album cover Blake designed. PAPER has followed and written about the works of Blake and Duncan in 2003 and 1999 respectively. We’re deeply saddened by the loss of our friends and two of very talented and vital members of the art world.
Photo of Theresa Duncan by Joshua Jordan
Photo of Jeremy Blake by Donald Graham
Comments
Hack journalism,way to fucking go!
Admirers of Theresa and Jeremy, you degrade them when you discount their personal accounts of being harassed.
I have a pretty good feeling they were feeling paranoia...what's your point?!
It was warranted,they weren't crazed or delusional-people were fucking with them.
When Theresa talked about anything you could believe her-her vocation,her platform of expression was storytelling,in real life she didn't manufacture drama. the only thing you never knew,is her age,she was 27 for awhile-35+ later on,it wasn't vanity or secrecy,it was what's the difference anyway.
Posted at 1:06 p.m. ET on Aug 03, 2007 by MIKE PAYNE
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