the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

tour de l'apocalypse

robert garcet's tower of the apocalypseimage from: fantastic architecture: personal and eccentric visions, 1980 harry abramstext from the book:born in 1912, robert garcet is a stonecutter by profession. around 1930, he settled in fort ebenemael, belgium, building a house there, then a workshop. in the early fifties, he began the tour de l'apocalypse. garcet sees the church as the cause of today's

visions of the divine

m swiezynski st francis 2005(a small list of artists interested in the divine)f=film, m=music , b=books1 (f). the work of robert bresson.esp. diary of a country priest 1951, au hazard balthazar 1966, mouchette 1967.see: robert bresson: a spiritual style by joseph cunneen, transcendental style in film by paul shrader, the hidden god: film and faith by the moma2 (m). current 93: black ships ate

wonderous and divine (of or pertaining to a god, esp. the supreme being)

"he would pull these songs out of nowhere," robbie robertson said. "we didn't know if he wrote them or if he remembered them. when he sang them, you couldn't tell." that, in the basement tapes laboratory, is the alchemy, and in that alchemy is an undiscovered country, like the purloined letter hiding in plain site.from greil marcus', the old, weird america: the world of bob dylan's basement tapes

lenz, darkness had fallen

m. swiezynski..........grey clouds marched across the sky, but everything so close, and then the mist came swirling up and drifted dank and heavy through the bushes, so leaden, so sluggish....................and the mist devoured the shape of things then half revealed their giant limbs; the surge swept through him, he sought for something, as though for lost dreams, but he found nothing..........

la mélancolie et le christ mort

hans holbein the body of the dead christ in the tomb 1521andrea mantegna the lamentation over the dead christ c. 1490dostoyevsky said after viewing hans holbein's the body of the dead christ in the tomb, one might lose their faith and proceeded to write the idiot. that holbein's painting was so visceral then (and still is), is quite wonderful.paintings of - beauty, melancholia, love and

it is a grimy establishment with some dusty trade goods....

photographs of conté and ink drawings done by the late mister futterman, or m. swiezynski.(photos of conté drawings):(night time photographs of an oed definition written with a mont blanc on a small paper and submerged in water):more info here and here.

ivanovo detstvo & die große stille

andrei tarkovsky: ivan's childhood 1963tarkovsky said of ivan's childhood:"generally people's memories are coloured by poetry. the most beautiful memories are those of childhood. of course memory has to be worked upon before it can become the basis of an artistic reconstruction of the past; and here it is important not to lose the particular emotional atmosphere without which a memory evoked in