robert bresson, given by the eyes of john cage

radically suppress intentions in your models.*not to use two violins when one is enough.*no intellectual or cerebral mechanism. simply a mechanism.*hide the ideas, but so that people find them. the most importantwill be the most hidden.*all those effects you can get from repitition (of an image, of a sound).*practice the precept: find without seeking.*to translate the invisible wind by the

angelic language has nothing in common with human language,

classic books (number 2):imagining language: an anthology, edited by jed jasula and steve mccaffery, mit press 1998includes:-richard head and francis kirkman: canting vocabulary, 1665 (compact lexicon of rogue idiolect)-robert desnos: rrose sélavy, etc., 1923-john dee and edward kelley: enochian table, 1581-1589 & the enocian call, 1581-1589-emanuel swedenborg: the angelic language, 1768 (blog

monochromes and architecture

monochromes and interior design by david ireland.folded paper landscape, 1973landscape, 1974dirt work with flakes, 1974a portion of: from the year of doing the same work each day,1975waxed cement with hole, 1975capp street, 1986headlands center for the arts, 1986-1987

plants & earth

hugo simberg in the garden of death 1896 max klinger terrace 1879 johann wolfgang von goethe budding, flowering, and branching systems 1786/87 robert rauschenberg dirt painting (for john cage) 1953 & untitled (gold painting) 1953 jean dubuffet la physique du sol (texturologie xxiii) 1958 jean dubuffet vie exemplaire du sol (texturologie lxiii) 1958books:-the painter's garden: design, inspiration,

abstractions, monochromes and minimalism, part 1

a small list of considerations for a chronicle of visual abstraction, with examples from music, photography, painting, film, video, and literature.including minimalism and the monochrome.this is not an all-inclusive list, but only concerned with examples of beauty or the sublime.this list is mostly centered around books and music from the library of herr schinkel / m. swiezynski, and related