Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century
from the Bodleian Library
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Showing posts with label drawings. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Austin Osman Spare... drawings & paintings
in the anticipation of attending the exhibition of the year
at the Cuming Museum in London, here are a few Spare treats!
Idiocy - Automatic Drawing
As above so below, this is never sufficiently realized. . . . Remorse? Nay, do unto thyself all things, fearlessly. Finality is reached when ye have learned to digest everything. What is all man-slaughter but what ye have done unto yourself? Only where there is necessity is ther death. Dispense with all 'means' to an end. There is nothing higher than joyous sensation. Eternal Self! these millions of bodies I have outworn! Oh, sinister ecstasy. I am thy vicious self pleasure that destroyeth all things. Distrust thy teacher, for 'divine truth' has prevented better men from wisdom. In such revelation there is no suggestion. Do thy utmost unto others: But be surely what thou wilt: and keep thy belief free of morality. Observe thyself by sensation: thus know the finer perturbations and vibrations. This much shalt thou learn: To love all men, for there will be compulsion.
from The Focus of Life ~ AOS
previous AOS POSTS
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Rose O'Neill...drawing...Sweet monsters...
“I am in love with magic and monsters,
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
more at Rose O'Neill org
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Austin Osman Spare... Satyr
from
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare 1927-1956
by William Wallace
"I am the Living Lie. In a World of Lies it is necessary to create reality" Satyros in Stroud 1924
Satyros at Stroud, 1924
"The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. Not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness."
from the Book of Pleasure - The psychology of ecstasy-
Austin Osman Spare
previous AOS posts
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Unica Zürn... Portrait of Hans Bellmer 1965
The staging of gesture, in a processus of transformation and metamorphosis, the patient weaving of memories, through "chinks in line": Unica Zurn has probably succeeded in her project of BEING. All the while waiting for her "magical encounter" - with the white-hair man, with Death?
" When i was a child i dreamt/ about the marriage with a white-hair man paralysed./ tied to a wheel chair forever.../ Behind us, eternal./ blossomed the Jasmine/ And this is the meaning of my legend/ of life together.../ Since my chilhood wedding, in a white dress-/ I feel that I gradually become white.../ To swim into the White, to perceive finally/ the White Image?"
from an essay by Barbara Safarova "The magical encounter between writing and image"
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Cadavre Exquis ...
Greta Knutson, Tristan Tzara, Valentine Hugo, Cadavre exquis 1929
Nusch Eluard, Valentine Hugo, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard 1930
Monday, July 5, 2010
Happy Birthday... Jean Cocteau ...drawing
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963
The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. ~ Jean Cocteau
previous JC 1
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
William S Burroughs....drawing...
Nasty Young Cop
Q : Have you been able to think for any length of time in images with the inner voice silent?
WB : I'm becoming more proficient at it, partly through my work with scrapbooks and translating the connections between words and images. Try this. Carefully memorize the meaning of a passage, then read it; you'll find you can actually read it without the words making any sound whatever in the mind's ear. Extraordinary experience, and one that will carry over into dreams. When you start thinking in images, without words, you're on the way.
Q : Have you been able to think for any length of time in images with the inner voice silent?
WB : I'm becoming more proficient at it, partly through my work with scrapbooks and translating the connections between words and images. Try this. Carefully memorize the meaning of a passage, then read it; you'll find you can actually read it without the words making any sound whatever in the mind's ear. Extraordinary experience, and one that will carry over into dreams. When you start thinking in images, without words, you're on the way.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Austin Osman Spare... drawing
Astral Body 1925
"Know the subconsciousness to be an epitome of all experience and wisdom, past incarnations as men, animals, birds, vegetable life, etc., etc., everything that exists, has and ever will exist."
essay > Janus Incarnate?
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Sherana Harriette Frances... drawings..part 1
The LSD drawings of Sherana Harriette Frances
a few scans 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 around 1963
Friday, April 23, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Joseph Jengehino...poems and drawing..
a physiology of conversion (collab with Amely Jones)
Gerald slices his thoughts with a citrus knife. Removes the matter.
His fiction is the salt she sucks from open wounds.
Her machinery is too much for him. At night he tears it down.
He likes to watch her mouth sleep.
likes the way it is crooked but still toxic. but silent.
He's afraid of her.
He's afraid of her unobstructed mind and the traps and equations she uses.
He wants to get under her skin
his static can break her. disrupt her.
break the plane of her bones,
break the circuitry of her mind,
give her parachutes to numbness.
Her head is turned, the profile of a bird on a pillowcase.
he touches her throat, a little
Hides his hands
He wants to hold her
in the softest prison,
place a thumb on her eye,
and feel the kaleidoscope's stained and transparent explosions.
The dreams are fueling her mind
maybe he can make her smile when she is like this...
but he won't touch those toxic lips
even with the latex fingers
he envisions her a future huffing oxygen from an apparatus.
sees her body tied to machines
sees the bricks of her mind dissolving
in a place where he can forever watch her mouth sleep
The Broken Neck of the Swan
Joseph Jengehino blog at MYSPACE
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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