Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Frans de Geetere & Arthur Rimbaud... The Stupra... 1925
Frans de Geetere ~ illustration for The Stupra 1925
The ancient beasts...
The ancient beasts bred even on the run,
Theirs glans encrusted with blood and excrement.
Our forfathers displayed theirs members proudly
By the fold of the sheath and the grain of the scrotum.
In the middle ages, for a female, angel or sow,
A fellow whose gear was substantial was needed;
Even a Kléber, judging by his breeches which exagerate
Perhaps a little, can't have lacked resources.
Besides, man is equal to the proudest mammal;
We are wrong to be surprised at the hugeness of their members;
But a sterile hour has struck: the gelding
And the ox have bridled their ardours, and no one
Will dare again to raise his genital pride
In the copses teeming with comical children.
Arthur Rimbaud ~ The Stupra 1925
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
William Butler Yeats... notebook page ...1920
sketch from 19 August 1920
One sketch from 19 August 1920 brings together a tower with water,
apple trees and flowering trees as well as birds and a unicorn
(labelled, on the right-hand side), said to be carrying a mask from a tree with its horn and “Rushing”.
The two sets of trees are labelled apple trees and flowering trees, which may represent
the same contrast of flower and fruit that Dulac used in his woodcut of the Great Wheel.
But elsewhere in the Automatic Script, the tree is the symbol of the primary and the mask of the antithetical, so that the unicorn's carrying away may represent a temporary triumph
of the antithetical or rescue for the antithetical Yeatses, as they build the tower of their
antithetical system.... more
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Jan Konůpek (1883-1950)... woodcut and etching... 1925
Woodcut ~ Creation of a man ~ 1925
from cycle of 10 etchings Monastery 1925 ~ Mysteries of the night
Monday, February 18, 2013
Susanne Iles & Audre Lorde... Aido Hwedo
Aido Hwedo, West African Creation Dragon by Susanne Iles
Holy ghost woman
Stolen out of your name
Rainbow Serpent
whose faces have been forgotten
Mother loosen my tongue or adorn me
with a lighter burden
Aido Hwedo is coming.
from ''Call'' by Audre Lorde ~ February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Dolorosa...white fire of powers : Full Moon...2013
white fire of powers : full moon 2013 ~ pastel and pencil a4
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
John Linnell...The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (after William Blake)...c1825
A Divine Image
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
William Blake
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
William T. Horton (1864-1919)...A book of images...1898
A book of images drawn by W.T. Horton & introduced by W.B. Yeats
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Dolorosa... happy birthday... Austin Spare 2012
Pastel on Paper No 1 of 9 A4
The fractional second is the path I would open...
Magic is but one's natural ability to attract without asking.
AOS
Magic is but one's natural ability to attract without asking.
AOS
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Anonymous... The Learned Man, 1511... Woodcut
from Liber de sensibus in Que hoc volumine continentur by Charles de Bovelles (Charles de Bouelles, Carolus Bovillus) (1479-1553)
a treatise on the senses. more HERE
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
George Russell 'AE' (1867-1935)... Tired...drawing and poem
Tired, Ink and wash,
Star Teachers
EVEN as a bird sprays many-coloured fires,
The plumes of paradise, the dying light
Rays through the fevered air in misty spires
That vanish in the heights.
These myriad eyes that look on me are mine;
Wandering beneath them I have found again
The ancient ample moment, the divine,
The God-root within men.
For this, for this the lights innumerable
As symbols shine that we the true light win:
For every star and every deep they fill
Are stars and deeps within.
George William (“A. E.”) Russell (1867–1935). Collected Poems by A.E. 1913.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Austin Osman Spare... illustration...Mutations... 1950
illustration for Martin Gardener's Horrible Horns published by
London Mystery Magazine
London Mystery Magazine
Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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