Minions of Evil; Minyans for God

Brett Wexler, raised in a society steeped in the philosophy of the dialectic, the ying and yang, the Christian and Hebrew classes of the "rich" and the "poor" and who will inherit what has always been excited by opposites.

What is a minion?

Minion is an interesting word. Higher than a servant, lower than a disciple. Brett Wexler has always been aware of the power positions and social status that society is awarding to people in what sometimes seems to be a random basis. And how interesting that most people accept the status bestowed on them by other, presumably equal people.

How many for a Minyan?

In Brett Wexler's Quaker religion, anyone can communicate with the Diety. Anyone can be enlightened. All humans are noble and holy. So he asks, can a Minyan be made of ONE? Among Jewish people it takes 10 men (be sure that is not the same as 10 "people") to speak with the Diety. Now what does that tell us?

French mignon

During the reign of Henri III in France, the King elevated some otherwise common people to the rank of his minions. He disrupted the social order. The Calvanists attacked. The reason was, they claimed,that the King was Gay. His minions were his lovers. Finally French literature solved the problem. King Henri was murdered by a lunatic monk. All the stuff about minions was disinformation. But the Gay part stuck.

French art lovers call Brett Wexler's nudes "mignon"

Thus it was that Brett Wexler, visiting in France in the late 20th Century and showing his nude portraits learned about the complex meaning of minion/mignon/minyan and set off to explore that social vibration caused by those words by way of art. The people must be lucious. They must entice us. They must make us holy in their presence as they make us also want to SIN. And by asking, Brett Wexler hopes to answer the question each person asks when he or she uses the word SIN.

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