Thursday, October 07, 2004

tickling interventions

every actual image surrounds itself within a cloud
of virtually orbiting particles that compose perception
in brownian motion overlaps evoking clouds of memories
caught and layered in concentric circles of coexisting
circuits, virtual in the sense of their occurrence across
a faster paceoftime than thought, faster than the time of
language, the notion of unthought caught up in its own
hyperbrevity, uncertainty like floating sparks that
pop the air with recombinant undecidables of (k)nots along
a planomenon of something much more fissive than Academe's
divide when language reigns pinklightinghailstonesandfog,
evokes remainders of a moment, furied storm of peace

until Sandra's largessed words
and l o o k i n g f o r w a r d late one afternoon
while the ochre sun was buttering her infant cheek
like whispers in the clouds, she winked,
"At least it proves. You are alive."

8 Comments:

Blogger in vino veritas [in wine, there is truth] said...

[http://photos1.blogger.com/img/42/1049/640/atleastitproves.jpg]

is this digital art ... or? a print of a painting/something with the text superimposed? I've noticed this on others, with a similar gent's image, and was curious.

9:57 p.m.  
Blogger name of the rose said...

It is a monoprint which I copied into a jpg and then digitally overlaid text across it.

...the face, repeated across a series of prints, was abstracted from old photos of my father, although I
was not trying to render his face realistically but
probably trying to explore his character in some way with each mark, ink pressed to paper, through the process inherent in that series...trying to see the man behind the father...if that makes sense.


[http://photos1.blogger.com/img/42/1049/640/atleastitproves.jpg]

is this digital art ... or? a print of a painting/something with the text superimposed? I've noticed this on others, with a similar gent's image, and was curious.

12:51 a.m.  
Blogger in vino veritas [in wine, there is truth] said...

[trying to see the man behind the father...]

I like this idea ... and curiously, began exploring it recently, as well: the character of the man, in my father's case - dark and mysterious - beyond his role as 'father' ... 'Pop' for me; I was writing about it ystd evening.

it makes sense; and I like the print. there is another that I like even more - http://photos1.blogger.com/img/42/1049/640/hardbackchair.1.jpg - and that I'd imagined as a framed poster ... because it's genius ... from the differing sized letters to the text to the image itself, which I assume to be the same(?)

1:16 a.m.  
Blogger name of the rose said...

yes, you have made mention of your father a few times in your writings...and I liked the way you described him with the following words, while resting on Moses' mountain...[Pop having told me that when reading The Good Book, you had to take it with a grain of salt, knowing that perhaps it was written moreso as literature-with-lessons than historical fact]...and that you called him Pop.

[... from the differing sized letters to the text to the image itself, which I assume to be the same(?]

...not sure is you are asking if the faces are of the same person in the two prints, but if so, yes, they are both from my 'father' series, the same face in both, his, remarkings...



On my 13th birthday, my father gave me a zippered white leather King James Bible accompanied by a Book of World Religions. along with a choice about what to belive in, but advised that I would find elemental truths in all faiths.

thank you for commenting on my print(s) as you did...
I appreciate your words all the more, knowing as I do, the complexity of (his) character I was trying to render.

1:49 a.m.  
Blogger in vino veritas [in wine, there is truth] said...

yes, I was asking if they were the same faces; I see the prints as larger than they probably are - and really enjoy them - not only the physical layout of the text, but the text itself and the image.

2:18 a.m.  
Blogger name of the rose said...

interesting that you mention size...they are larger...the one you mention (hardbackchair) was printed in 3 sections and in totality measures 2.5 feet by 6 feet. The other is smaller (16"x 24"). Nonmetrically speaking. And of course I appreciate what you say...

But it bothered me all day that in my previous comment here, I had quoted from your site...when I probably should have done so on yours, not mine. SO if this bothers you, I will remove it. As you once said to me, I should not have done so without asking you first.





yes, I was asking if they were the same faces; I see the prints as larger than they probably are - and really enjoy them - not only the physical layout of the text, but the text itself and the image.

6:17 p.m.  
Blogger in vino veritas [in wine, there is truth] said...

wow ... I like the scale of hardbackchair - I'd imagined it as half that, but like the dominating size and presence that it would have; I'd imagined it on a wall, either in a hallway or living area - where it could be seen and read, casually - but noticeably.

quoting ... I'm indifferent as to how you quote me, and hadn't even noticed; mine are ideas and thoughts in passing ... yours are art; I see something of a difference, but I appreciate that you mention it.

10:58 p.m.  
Blogger name of the rose said...

a humble thought of yours, but who is to say what is art and what is not, whenever 'the beholder becomes the beheld' (which is a paraphrase from Blake)...

...and it raises the question...what is art?

8:52 a.m.  

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