camera lucida & lightstreams, jouissance

the meaning of mystery is to be always in ambiguity, with double, triple aspects; in the hints of aspects (images in images), forms which will be, or which become according to the state of mind of the beholder. all things become more suggestive because they appear.odilon redon (from as in a dream: odilon redon)this entry looks at the work of 3 contemporary artists working in filmic abstractions,

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