masks
Mit magischer Gewalt zog es ihn auf Friedhoefe. Besucher beobachteten, wie er lange Zeit mit dem Zeigefinger auf einen Punkt von Jean Paul's Grabstein tippte.
"For me one of the greatest moments in Balthazar is almost parenthetical: when the vagabond Arnold, knowing that he is dying, says farewell to the road marker, then the telephone pole. Conversation with inanimate objects is of course habitual with alcoholics, but Arnold’s bonding with his surroundings acknowledges the way we all invest objects we love with a kind of sacred life; they become
eyewater (to separate and to assemble together, or: some sublimates that have been listening)
look neither here nor there to view a miniature of an occult memory system by theartofmemory contributor mr. swiezynski
ships
It was 25 years ago when the wings of death came low And spread out on the ocean far and wide. A great ship sailed away with her passengers so gay To never, never reach the other side.CHORUS:Sailing out to winter pain, the Titanic was her name,When she had sailed 500 miles from shoreMany passengers and her crew went down with that old canoe;They all went down to never rise no more.- Down with the
an occult memory system (a system mysteriously of the memory)
an occult memory system, 2007new video by m swiezynski with music by richard skelton on bowed guitar and stuart green on concertina(all titles from francis amelia yates' the art of memory)shot in the blue ridge mountains, north carolina using high definition technology, nd + red filters and a vehicle.this is film #5 of a planned 8 film project for the year of 2007 (3 more to go)
hospitals
Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty yeares, which to relate, were not a History, but a peece of Poetry, and would sound to common eares like a fable; for the world, I count it not an Inne, but an Hospitall, and a place, not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is my selfe, it is the Microcosme of mine owne frame, that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my Globe
a love for girls and animals and plants
After his failure to establish himself even marginally in regular employment (Peter Altenberg) drifted ever more to the periphery of polite society. By 1920 he was living in a tiny room at the Hotel London, an establishment which was little different from a brothel, on Wallnerstrasse. There he stayed for more than a decade, building up a fabled collection of picture postcards and nude pinups with
some alchemists, by facilities, came to observe these intentions (metaphysical) like the true alignment of the alchemy
steve roden, surface shifts, 2005 (aka car drawings)(post inspired by recent performances in los angeles at the hammer musuem: steve roden & william basinski)steve roden(alchemy was known as the spagyric art after the greek words meaning to separate and to join together, or: some sublime cds i have been listening to):-amnesia (live in berlin, 2004)-one stone. and arcs and ears.-9-sided room-ear/
allusions
'To Die No More' : That we have not found anything to cope with death after the passing of the Christian concept of it. THIS VOID allows for anything.Blind Pony Lake: An area named after the Blind Pony Community that once lived there - - : Poor freed slaves that settled there after the Civil War and farmed with blind horses, because they could buy them for little money.hp/km
Margaret, are you grievingOver Goldengrove unleaving?Leaves, like the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?Ah! as the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights colderBy and by, nor spare a sighThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;And yet you will weep and know why.Now no matter, child, the name:Sorrow's springs are the same.Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressedWhat
i reduction to sleep (a broken consort)
work by louise skelton & richard skelton(sustain-release)music by richard skelton:( )= moniker name-(a broken consort) box of birch, 2007barbed wire blues, berkmanan and j f glidden.bowed metallic figures suspended from ivied trees.dense thickets of slack, rusted snares and splitting bark.accordion mists gathering in the early morning light.-(riftmusic) riftmusic, 2007iridescent blues. a slow
the secret of shadows (from francis a. yates)
(please click images to make them bigger)new film finished (35 minutes!) and available soon on dvd. look for it in fine establishments dealing in smut and iniquities.soundtrack: the gentle sound of rainimages: inspired by tarkovsky's driving sequence in solaris
hour almost close eye one glass side other looked
to be looked at (from the other side of the glass) with one eye, close to, for almost an hourbuenos aires 1918 (moma)(please forgive my recent inactivity on the l'oscillation de la chèvre aveugle [aka the (bl)ind(o)scillating(g)oat],i have been: out of town/working on some films/uninspired with watching film and overly inspired with breathing [like duchamp's "breather"]/and finally, working too
à l'infinitif
frontbackmarcel duchamp à l'infinitif published by the typosophic society with typotranslation by richard hamilton and ecke bonk of marcel duchamp's white box (1967)(another great texas find)images of the original edition:some duchamp books:-marcel duchamp: the box in a valise, de ou par marcel duchamp ou rrose selavy, rizzoli by ecke bonk-joseph cornell/marcel duchamp...in resonance, hatje cantz
l'eau et gaz
recent trip to austin and houstonlora reynolds gallery, austin:stephen vitiello speaker drawings 2006+ his amazing sound work dolly ascendingsteve roden four words for four hands (apples.mountains.over.frozen.) 16mm filmde menil collection, houston:yves kleinrothko chapelde menil collection, after a rainfalljames turrell: quaker meeting house in the heights, houston:(all thanks to diane granahan,
k.
Not long before his death he said that he had been exiled from Canaan for forty years, and even the community which he sometimes longed for was basically suspect to him; he wanted only to dissolve away by himself, as the water runs into the sea.
last walks
"In his boundless helplessness,Walser never lacked the strengthto keep silent."- Roberto Calasso
JOKE : "A patient in a large hospital room with many beds complains to the doctor about the constant noise and cries other patients are making, which are driving him crazy. After the doctor replies that nothing can be done if the patients are like that, that one cannot forbid them from expressing their despair since they all know they are dying, the patient goes on: 'Why don't you put them in a
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