Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Michelangelo... Anima Damnata...1524




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Only I remain burning in the dusk
After the sun has stripped the world of its rays:
Whereas other men take their pleasure, I do but mourn,
Prostrate on the ground, lamenting and weeping... 
from notes on drawings by Michelangelo dated around same period



Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Friday, April 13, 2012

Rosaleen Norton ... drawing & poem excerpt







...My home is the house of winds,
With great songs of Space ringing wild in my ears
Whose shouting heart leaps to their tune.
I mock at the shapes, plodding thickly, through lamplight:
stupid and cruel - or kind -
They are alien, Other, I'm touched with uneasiness...
Fear of these human.... and glide away sidelong:
Yet joying in fear, in my stealthy aloofness,
To know they are They and I'm I.
Towers of old cities are spiralling over me, Night-conjured,
rising from Time
And I hear, through the seething of luminous silence -
Secretive, vibrant, the sound of the Solitude -
Calling of others like me
Quietly they come, flitting softly as secrets; light-footed,
velvety, swift...
With eyes gleaming green, lambent flame of the Opal.
Kindred... we signal our quick recognition.
I am I ... but I know we are we
Panther of silence; god of Night; Lord of the wild inhuman
stars:
You are my own; teeming soul of solitude.
Here is no loneliness, secret Master -
You, Dark Spirit are with me.

from Pan's Daughter by Nevill Drury

previous Rosaleen Norton



Friday, March 23, 2012

Sherana Harriette Frances... drawings part 2 ... 1976



The LSD drawings of Sherana Harriette Frances

a  scan from a favourite book of mine

Drawing it out ~ Befriending the Unconscious ~

the book originated as a wordless visual dialogue between her conscious and unconscious mind, catalyzed by her experience with LSD at the international Institute for Advanced Study.


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"The Mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven."
- Milton: Paradise Lost (1667) Book 1 line 253





Friday, March 9, 2012

Paul Rumsey... drawings... Satyr Family... 2002




I am delighted to share with you, some work generously sent by a favourite artist and super thrilled to know he is a fan of the blog!!




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more wonders here > The Paul Rumsey Homepage



Thursday, March 31, 2011

Mervyn Peake 1911-1968 .... drawing...





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Pen line drawing 1957


"We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, 
paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, 
when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, 
new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect."
 — Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)



Friday, February 25, 2011

Cesare Nebbia... sketch...





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Moses and the brazen serpent c 1588 Pen and  ink