Saturday, September 15, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Enrico Baj ... illustration from The Book of Imaginary Beings by J L Borges 1973
"Let us move now from the zoo of reality to the zoo of mythology, that zoological garden
whose fauna is comprised not of lions but of sphinxes and gryphons and centaurs.
The population of this second zoo should by all rights exceed that of the first,
since a monster is nothing but a combination of elements taken from real creatures, and the
combinatory possibilities border on the infinite...
Readers browsing through our own anthology will see that the zoology attributable to
whose fauna is comprised not of lions but of sphinxes and gryphons and centaurs.
The population of this second zoo should by all rights exceed that of the first,
since a monster is nothing but a combination of elements taken from real creatures, and the
combinatory possibilities border on the infinite...
Readers browsing through our own anthology will see that the zoology attributable to
dreams is in fact considerably more modest than that attributable to God. We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe, but there is something in the image of the dragon that is congenial to man's imagination, and thus the dragon arises in many latitudes and ages. It is, one might say, a necessary monster."
from The Book of Imaginary Beings (Borges, 1954)
Monday, September 10, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Dolorosa... new work ... brazing muscled Joy 2012
Brazing Muscled Joy , pencil on paper 12"x 12" 2012
A new work on show now at "William Blake ~ Visionary Artist" at the
Freedom Bookshop Whitechapel London ~
“Human thought is crush’d beneath the iron hand of Power…”
A group show in the Freedom Gallery of work inspired by Blake.
A group show in the Freedom Gallery of work inspired by Blake.
from 2nd August - 30th September 2012
Labels:
dolorosa,
my drawings,
my works,
William Blake
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Paraphilia Magazine...Tagada issue & Dolorosa new work White Raven 2012
new work in new issue of Paraphila Magazine
Dolorosa ~White Raven ~ Pencil on Paper ~ 12"x 12"
New issue of Paraphilia available on line now with contributions from >
Rob Sussman, Sean Madden, Andrew Maben, Marijke
Koger-Dunham, Heather Harris, Ele-Beth Little, Toby Huss, Steve
Overbury, Laurence Thompson, Christopher Nosnibor, Jim Coleman, Beth B,
F.X. Tobin, Mike Hudson, Richard Blandford, Dolorosa De La Cruz,
Alexander Natas, Alexander Hacke, Matthias Penzel, Tony Rauch, Michael
Dent, Lisa Wormsley, Michael Cano, Patsy Faragher, Mike Watt, Lana
Gentry, Craig Woods, Gregg Sutton, Richard Reynolds, Robert Earl Reed,
Rick Grimes, Hank Kirton, Chris Madoch, dixē.flatlin3, Don Bolles,
Christy Lou, Claudia Bellocq, Richard A. Meade, Patrick Wright, Victoria
Fierek, Katiejane Garside, Tom Garretson, David Gionfriddo, Claudia
Murari, Joshua Seraphim, Thomas Evans, Pablo Vision, John Wisniewski,
Henry Rollins, Kris Denton, Gay Anniversary, Susan Te Kahurangi King,
David Hoenigman, Matashichi Kumagae, Matt Leyshon, Ron Garmon
Labels:
dolorosa,
my drawings,
my works,
PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
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