Cécile Reims ~ Metamorphoses ~ 1957-1958
Cécile Reims ~ Metamorphoses ~ 1957-1958
Ephemeral being ~ 2003
Sacred liquor - 2003-2004
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Bocio sculptures...Benin & UK... Unknown & Charlotte Rodgers
Bocio sculpture Benin
bocio; the word means "empowered (bo) cadaver (cio)" in the Fon language of Benin.
The most common and prototypical of the bacio genre, are bla-bocio whose surfaces have been bound tightly with cord, cloth, fur, chains, vines or other wrapping materials.The tieing and knotting of cords or other materials around a bocio serve to activate its power and bind other potent additive matter to the work.
The materials chosen to bind a sculpture vary; the most frequently employed are cotton thread, twisted feathers or plant parts, and strips of animal hide.
The placement of the bondage - usually on the stomach, chest arms or head - affects the meaning of the sculpture, since each body part is considered as the seat of different emotional concerns
Charlotte Rodgers 2013 ~ 'I Did Not Die Easy'. A baited badger which I found wrapped in a black plastic bag, and thrown onto the side of a motorway bypass. Its life,spirit and death were acknowledged, and its cry was sealed with nettle cord knotted around the jaw.Nothing is disposable.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Lothar Schreyer... works on paper
Coloured lithograph on tissue paper 1921
"Mother Earth". Woodcut and watercolor on thin Japan dated twice 1920 -66
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Myths of Hindus and Buddhists...illustrations... 1913
Book illustration from ''Myths of Hindus and Buddhists'' by Ananda K Coomearaswamy and Sister Nivedita, 1913
Garuda by Nandalal Bose
Dhruva by Asit Kumar Haldar
Dhruva, a young devotee of Vishnu, was blessed with eternal existence and glory as the Pole Star.
Pururavas by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar
Pururavas was the first king of the Aila dynasty and a mythological entity associated with the sun and the dawn.
The asceticism of Uma by Nandalal Bose
Kaliya Damana by Khitindra Nath Mazumdar
more HERE
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Austin Osman Spare...Two Figures With Moon...1945
Two Figures With Moon from 'Satyros Dux' 1945; original artwork for illustration, pencil with blue crayon
Austin Osman Spare ... pencil drawing... Angel and Devil
Others say knowledge only is eternal, it is the eternal illusion of learning-the Ukase of learning what we already know. Directly we ask ourselves "how" we induce stupidity; without this conception what is there we could not know and accomplish? Others for concentration, it will not free you, the mind conceiving the law is bondage. Arrived at that, you will want deconcentration. Dissociation from all ideas but one is not release but imaginative fulfilment, or the fury of creation. Others again, that all things are emanations of the Divine Spirit, as rays from the Sun, hence the need of emancipation? Verily, things are of necessity through their conception and belief. Then let us destroy or change conception, and empty the belief.
The Book of Pleasure (self-love), The Psychology of Ecstasy
Austin Osman Spare
Monday, June 24, 2013
Johann Kissling...Daily preparation for prayer ...1665
Look at the order of nature! this is the clock deaths: your numbers are created with zumahl deaths legs and the shadows seem numerous hours on so many corpses
Friday, June 21, 2013
Wladd Muta...The Secret Dreams of the the Black Beehive - Third extraction...2013
(from forthcoming book and music project, Wladd Muta with Nico Guerrero Vortex)
previous posts Wladd Muta
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Jack Lindsay...The Passionate Neatherd... illustrations...1928
The Passionate Neatherd. Sydney: Fanfrolico Press, [1928]
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