where love illuminates (and leaves materialism in remnants)

otar iosseliani, aprili (april), 1961lights illuminate, water pours, while footsteps amidst tables and chairs bewilder and confuse, musicians play, doors open and close, only to leave materialism in ruin, and return to one's love.

the voiceless downpour of the stars

...they eloquently proceeded with their task, took up again the lost human cause, and pleaded before the indifferent tribunal of stars, now set in a sky on which the shapes of the instruments floated like water signs or fragments of keys, unfinished lyres or swans, an imitory, thoughtless starry commentary on the margin of music.- text by bruno schulz, from spring - sanatorium under the sign of

Who has turned us round like that, that we,do as we may, are in the attitudeof going away?- rilke

thirty-fifth one flew

errol morris - vernon, florida - 1982cinematography by ned burgesslisten to that sound.hear that sound?getting in and out of trees?

of visible secret visions

study for camino real, gouache on paper(blueprint graph), 1967line involvement v, lithograph, 1964enmeshed I, lithograph, 1963... our pounding heart drives us down, deep down to the source of all.what springs from this source, whatever it may be called, dream, idea or phantasy - must be taken seriously only if it unites with the proper creative means to form a work of art.then those dreams

at sea

this invisible art of memory - magic hour number 1 - 2007by matthew swiezynskiplaying at the san francisco cinemathequesunday, december 14 at 7:30pmlocation - yerba buena center for the arts, san francisco(at sea by peter hutton also playing)701 mission street (corner of third)

(broken light) an early appearance heard in the evening

colin andrew sheffield - signatures special edition - invisible birds

tissu léger et transparent

photographs by bolesław okoniewski, "discovered" by him on his 1960s trip to paris france.his three most inspiring art discoveries there (besides the city itself): marcel duchamp, victor hugo, and henri michaux.okoniewski is rumoured to have whispered to his newfound love there "gaze, tissu léger et transparent, de soie, de lin ou de laine, à armure complexe, à fils sinueux. étoffe, robe de gaze

There are two truths which men will not generally believe: one is not knowing anything, the other is not being anything. Add a third, that grows largely from the second: of having nothing to hope for after death. Giacomo Leopardi, from his journals(Thanks to James Walsh for finding it.)

ciaccona, the musical thought

nathan milstein playing the ciacconavarious recordings of j.s. bach's chaconnefrom sonaten und partiten für violine solo (bwv 1004)aka les sonates et partites pour violon seulsonatas and partitas for solo violinsonate e partite per violino solocompleted in cöthen, 1720- nathan milstein - angel records/emi - 1954-1956- joseph szigeti - vanguard classics - (recorded) 1955, (edited) 1962- arthur

a wavering gleam of pointed light

greene & greenefrom a new and native beauty: the art and craft of greene & greeneviewed at the huntington library, art collections, and botanical gardens

a glimmer of vivid light

greene & greene - watercolourfrom a new and native beauty: the art and craft of greene & greeneviewed at the huntington library, art collections, and botanical gardens

transparency, invisible

new acquisitions from arthur de eriomém & gossamerbooks- max ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe by werner spies - abrams - 1988- caspar david friedrich: line and transparency - centre culturel du marais j. et m.c./rizzoli - 1985- gego: 1957-1988 - hatje cantz - 2006- gego: between transparency and the invisible - the museum of fine arts, houston - 2007- winslow homer:

polish reviews

bresson on artificial eye

movements of a score of leaves & of many sleepers

gemälde der organischen natur in ihrer verbreitung auf der erdehand-coloured lithograph by joseph päringerbased on original work by ferdinand august von ritgen& johann bernhard wilbrandgieson: c.g. müller, 1821several observations and considerations about the nature of cork(mimosa sensitiva, bottom detail)copperplate engraving in micrographiarobert hook, 1665tree of life - transmutation notebook

in honour of olivier messiaen's 100 birthday

colin andrew sheffield's signatures due december 10thin honour of olivier messiaen's 100th birthdayin collaboration with invisiblebirds.org, the art of memory is pleased to announce a new release by colin andrew sheffieldlimited to an edition of 60 examples,which includes a bonus 3 inch cd broken light, a booklet with abstracted photography by tarrl lightowler and text by richard inwards f.r.a.s

with the gentle embrace

dom hans van der laan (dutch monastic architect)schemi per tuniche represe da abiti orientali che testimoniano l'attitudinefrom dom hans van der laan: le opere, gli scritti - electa - 2000for diane

spheres of resonance

there is an ancient indian folk story about the bird called musikar or dipak-lotus which had a beak of seven apertures. through each of these openings the bird was supposed to have been able to blow a different note, and at different seasons of the year it combined these notes into harmony to produce ragas with an "ethos" particular to the hour of the day and season of the year. an egg was

The only cure for madnessis the innocence of facts.- Jacques Riviere in a letter to Antonin Artaud

other's face reflected

train abstractions fromakira kurosawa's high and low - 1963cinematography by asakazu nakai & takao saito