Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
New Work... 2011
... I'm not able to say... What room is this?
and he dissapears in the sky
He can only touch himself from the outside
In what number do you rest beloved Father?
Verbal Mucky Zing~Dolorosa 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Elie Grekoff (1914-1985) ... Tiresias...illustrations 1954
from TIRESIAS by Marcel Jouhandeau, 1954
these illustrations are from the Bibliothèque Gay
an interesting essay on Marcel Jouhandeau's Tiresias >> by Ed Madden
The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis
an interesting essay on Marcel Jouhandeau's Tiresias >> by Ed Madden
The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Francis Picabia ... Untitled drawing & poem
Monday, January 3, 2011
Leonor Fini... La Galère/Jean Genet ... 1947 drawing..
Drawing for Jean Genet's La Galère 1947,a long poem written as a homage to murderer
Harcamone, the book was condemned in 1954 and Genet was fined 100.ooo francs.
"By the threads of death
the weapons of these nights
carried my arms paralyzed by wine
the azure of nostrils
traversed by the rose gone astray
where a gilded doe shudders under the brush...
I astonish myself and lose myself
in pursuing your course
astonishing river
from the veins of discourse"
the weapons of these nights
carried my arms paralyzed by wine
the azure of nostrils
traversed by the rose gone astray
where a gilded doe shudders under the brush...
I astonish myself and lose myself
in pursuing your course
astonishing river
from the veins of discourse"
***
"The tree's blue branches
stretch from the salt to the sky.
My solitude sings
to my vespers of blood
an air of golden bubbles
squeezing from my lips."
stretch from the salt to the sky.
My solitude sings
to my vespers of blood
an air of golden bubbles
squeezing from my lips."
Jean Genet - The Galley
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Austin Osman Spare ... Satyr... Happy Birthday!
Austin Osman Spare ~ 30 Dec 1886 –15 May 1956
O Give Thanks Unto!
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O Give Thanks Unto scanned from a set of postcards from recent "Fallen Visionary" exhibition 2010
The Psychology of Believing.
If the "supreme belief" remains unknown, believing is fruitless. If "the truth" has not yet been ascertained, the study of knowledge is unproductive. Even if "they" were known their study is useless. We are not the object by the perception, but by becoming it. Closing the gateways of sense is no help. Verily I will make common-sense the foundation of my teaching. Otherwise, how can I convey my meaning to the deaf, vision to the blind, and my emotion to the dead? In a labyrinth of metaphor and words, intuition is lost, therefore without their effort must be learned the truth about one's self from him who alone knows the truth . . . . yourself.
from The Book of Pleasure (self-love) ~
The Psychology of Ecstasy
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius 1595...poem...Carmina Figurata
Sometime around the end of the first quarter of the fourth century C.E., a former resident of the imperial city of Rome then living in exile in Achaea began a written campaign for his recall to the capitol. The campaign coincided with the Vicennalia, or twentieth anniverary, of the reign of the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine, an event celebrated in July 325 in Nicomedia and again in the summer of 326 at Rome itself. The writing campaign took advantage of this event and consisted of a series of panegyric poems addressed to Constantine in commemoration of both the Vicennalia and Constantine’s earlier defeat of Licinius in 324. The series, included in what is now known collectively as the Carmina or Carmina Figurata, is of an unusual and innovative sort: the poems contain supplementary text “hidden” within the main body of the individual poems and intended to be “discovered” by the reader. These versus intexti poems were apparently intended to dazzle Constantine with their technical virtuosity and thereby inspire the hoped-for recall of their creator, Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius. The campaign was ultimately successful, and the intriguing larger body of work created by Optatianus remains captivating even today, both for its simple visual appeal and for its display of remarkable technical skill.... continued
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