he was gifted with the invisible music

invisible birds research

à la recherche des oiseaux invisiblesby the 19th century french ornithologist m von toufes-moles***the beginnings of a bird section now visible on invisiblebirds.orga growing list of artists pursuing birds,specifically in painting, photography, music, literature, poetry and film,compiled by gossamer & arthur de eriomém

often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth

riccardo morandiconstruction photo of bridge over lake maracaibo, venezuelafrom - the concrete architecture of riccardo morandi by giorgio boaga & benito boni - praeger - 1966

not quite silence but stillness, in spite of trains (invisible birds)

classic drone series (number 3)2:00 pm (october 22, 1999)sandhill cranes gabbling high aboveinvisible in autumn's blue depthsa pair of crows shout at each otheracross the open fieldsnapping red-winged grasshoppers describea series of brief arcs, from there to theretheir smaller kin lie hiddendiscreetly hissing in the black gramathe lanky stalks tremble and sigha dozen piñon jays stir the

univers du western - the furies

anthony mann - the furies - 1950(landscape photography)cinematography by victor milner *(number 8 of 500 detailing westerns)

and then everything receded from him (invisible birds)

and the sound of the wind died away and then like the murmur of a lullaby or pealing bells rose up again from the depths of ravines and tips of fir trees and a faint reddishness climbed into the deep blue and small clouds drifted by on silver wings and all the mountain peaks, sharp and firm, glinted and gleamed far across the countryside, he would feel something tearing at his chest, he would

flowers appear (invisible birds)

unir ton système nerveaux au mien dans la nuit profonde de la connaissance, 1936the swan is very peaceful, 1920shoot the moon, 1972illustration from répétitions, paul éluard, 1922kleist, brentano, arnim:caspar david friedrich, seelandschaft mit kapuziner1972loplop, supérieur des oiseaux, 1928paramythes, 1967les diamants conjugaux, 1925quelques animaux dont un illettré, 1973l'oiseau dans la forêt,

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to langston, one of the finest friends a fellow could have

edrnia plmnei

los angeles, time, castration, infidelity, darkness, humour, violence, poland, rabbits, prostitution, mercenaries, glistening eyes, alleys, distant melodies, death, penderecki, nonsense, trainsounds, scratching, surface sounds, evil, 47, hollywood & vine, blurring, afterimages, liminality

rounds

richard serra - out-of-round VII - 1999(paintstick on hiromi paper)from richard serra: drawings, work comes out of workkunsthaus bregenz - 2008

and they held out as long as they could.

he was almost forgotten, in fact, within a few years of his death

lake lugano - 1885 + two detailsfrom edward lear as a landscape draughtsman by philip hoferthe belknap press of harvard university - 1967

irretrievable & irrepeatable

What conclusion can we draw?To invite the gods ruins our relationship with thembut sets history in motion.A life in which the gods are not invited isn't worth living.It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.And you could suppose that these dangerous invitationswere in fact contrived by the gods themselves,because the gods get bored with men who have no stories.- Roberto Calasso, The

invisible birds (mocking bird)

it is where the great magnolia shoots up its majestic trunk, crowned with evergreen leaves, and decorated with a thousand beautiful flowers, that perfume the air around; where the forests and fields are adorned with blossoms of every hue; where the golden orange ornaments with gardens and groves; where bignonias of various kinds interlace their climbing stems around the white-flowered stuartia,