more Piccini here
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Alexander von Humboldt (1767–1835)... illustration...Simia trivirgata
© Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Austin Osman Spare... Satyr c1920
"By turning my head involuntary... I can always see my alter ego, familiars or the gang of elementals that partly constitute my being." AOS
from Austin Osman Spare, Fallen Visionary, Refractions published by Jerusalem Press
Alfred Kubin... Der Asket (the ascetic) ...1910
"When I ventured back into the world of the living, I discovered that my
god only held half-sway. In everything, both great and small, he had to
share with an adversary who wanted life. The forces of repulsion and
attraction, the twin poles of the earth with their currents, the
alternation of the seasons, day and night, black and white - these are
battles..."
from The Other Side A.Kubin
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
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