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while an ant
toiled from the dahlia
to the ash tray
I was forming
a beautiful lie
toiled from the dahlia
to the ash tray
I was forming
a beautiful lie
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Felicien Rops & Victor Neuburg... erotic print. & poem excerpt...
L'Amante du Christ, 1888 ~ Felicien Rops
Sweet wizard, in whose footsteps I have trod
Unto the shrine of the most obscene god, and
Let me once more feel thy strong hand to be
Making the magic signs upon me! Stand,
Stand in the light, and let mine eyes drink in
The glorious vision of the death of sin!
from 'The Romance of Olivia Vane' Victor Neuburg.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Liv Rainey-Smith... Woodcuts ... Satyr
Shub ~ The Early Years © Liv Rainey-Smith
"Shub-Niggurath" ~ 2008 © Liv Rainey-Smith
William Blake... print & poem..1793
"The terror answerd: I am Orc, wreath'd round the accursed tree:
The times are ended; shadows pass the morning 'gins to break;
The fiery joy, that Urizen perverted to ten commands,
What night he led the starry hosts thro' the wide wilderness:
That stony law I stamp to dust: and scatter religion abroad
To the four winds as a torn book, & none shall gather the leaves;
But they shall rot on desert sands, & consume in bottomless deeps;
To make the deserts blossom, & the deeps shrink to their fountains,
And to renew the fiery joy, and burst the stony roof.
That pale religious letchery, seeking Virginity,
May find it in a harlot, and in coarse-clad honesty
The undefil'd tho' ravish'd in her cradle night and morn:
For every thing that lives is holy, life delights in life;
Because the soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.
Fires inwrap the earthly globe, yet man is not consumed;
Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass,
His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold.
And Satan is the Spectre of Orc & Orc is the generate Luvah"
The times are ended; shadows pass the morning 'gins to break;
The fiery joy, that Urizen perverted to ten commands,
What night he led the starry hosts thro' the wide wilderness:
That stony law I stamp to dust: and scatter religion abroad
To the four winds as a torn book, & none shall gather the leaves;
But they shall rot on desert sands, & consume in bottomless deeps;
To make the deserts blossom, & the deeps shrink to their fountains,
And to renew the fiery joy, and burst the stony roof.
That pale religious letchery, seeking Virginity,
May find it in a harlot, and in coarse-clad honesty
The undefil'd tho' ravish'd in her cradle night and morn:
For every thing that lives is holy, life delights in life;
Because the soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.
Fires inwrap the earthly globe, yet man is not consumed;
Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass,
His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold.
And Satan is the Spectre of Orc & Orc is the generate Luvah"
from America : A prophecy
Monday, August 8, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Jónas Sen...The Red and Black Twins...2011
© Jónas Sen 2011
"If red and black are the two aspects of the darkness in which creativity
has its roots, then perhaps, they can be understood as representing the twin
aspects of artistic genius, the passive and the active. Both are needed to create art."
...
"The successful invocation of the Twins is thus an opening of the gate to the dark, to the source of endless creativity that is pure magic."
Jónas Sen ~ from The Red and Black Twins in
ATUA - Voices from La Societe Voudon Gnostique (Fulgur 2011)
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Oskar Kokoschka... The Dreaming youths... 1907/08
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Renowned as an Expressionist painter, the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) began his career in the decorative arts, studying book illustration, printmaking and typography alongside life drawing at Vienna’s School of Applied Arts between 1904 and 1908. The Dreaming Youths, begun in November 1907 and printed the following June, was Kokoschka’s first major graphic series, produced at the age of 21 while he was still a student. It started as a commission for a children’s picture-book, but Kokoschka set aside his brief after the first illustration, adding verses to create a complex ‘picture-poem’ exploring the desires and anxieties of adolescent sexuality. He described it as ‘a kind of record, in words and pictures, of my own state of mind at the time’, in particular of his love for Lilith Lang, the sister of a fellow student, who appears with him in the final image, The Girl Li and I. He wrote later that ‘the book was my first love-letter’, although his relationship with Lilith had ended by the time it appeared.
The Dreaming Youths was one of Kokoschka’s most significant early statements, and the frank, erotic metaphor and personal mythology introduced here would become central to his later artistic productions, both visual and literary.
Toyen (Marie Cerminova) ... Erotica & essay...
"Toyen's entire oeuvre aims at nothing less than the correction of the exterior world in terms of a desire that feeds upon and grows from its own satisfaction. "
Benjamin Peret 1953
interesting essay on Toyen here >
previous toyen
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)... lithograph
from the series Order and Chaos - Compass rose ~ 1955
This special edition of lithographs where intended to be presented to the members of the Masonic Order in Holland, the Knights of Templar.
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