....a great Architectural Palimpsest!
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Why do I desire the space?
I was mourning after you
I was lost and lost my shape
There was nothing I could do
I don't want to waste away
It was all I gave to you
Take me back and take my place
I will rise right up for you
But you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don't need me
Little girl, you are cursed by my ancestry
There is nothing but darkness and agony
I can not only see, but you stopped me from blinking
Let me watch you as close as a memory
Let me hold you above all the misery
Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here
Photo taken at Frogmore Venue Soon for Halloween
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* Para aquellos que ven más allá de la simple materia; y las formas y los símbolos del tiempo constituyen un palimpsesto donde rescribir el mensaje transmitido...
La España de la Meseta Norte.
Evocación poético-histórica junto a un detalle –de nuevo el sol y la piedra- de la fachada del antiguo convento de san Marcos en León. Comunidad de Castilla y León. España.
La construcción de tan bello edificio fue promovida y costeada por los Reyes Católicos (la gran reina Isabel I de Castilla y el inteligente rey estratega Fernando II de Aragón) como sede de la Orden de Caballería de Santiago puesto que fue erigido a orillas del río Bernesga y literalmente junto al puente medieval de San Marcos, por el que los peregrinos continuaban el Camino de Santiago, es hoy uno de los monumentos más importantes de León. De estilo plateresco isabelino. Martín de Villarreal es el autor de la fachada.
Acepta la sorpresa
(Fragmento)
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Las hermosuras se desencadenan
si las llamas, si apelas a sus formas
y te atienes a su contemplación,
sin intentar la dulce posesión que las destruye,
conservándolas puras en sus encantamientos,
porque allí donde el hombre ejercita de hombre
se confunde la magia.
Acepta la sorpresa
de tu transformación: un dios
eres errante cuyas púrpuras libran
del polvo de los astros y al que no llegan los hondos
gemidos de la tierra.
Fuera estás
de la norma que rige para los seres mínimos
que arrastran su semilla y mueren entre estruendos
que rompen las divinas almenas y ...
(VICTORIANO CRÉMER. Poemas.)
A variation on a theme. A "palimpsest". A crop and manipulation of a section of "Incendiaries of the Decoys". An interesting alternate way of working first suggested by Catness Grace and Paul Ewing - that is, zooming in on a section of a piece and extracting that out of the main image and either leaving it extant or manipulating it further. I chose the second route.
The connection to "Incendiaries" is clear but the image has been sharply re-contextualized and 're-visioned'. After a series of dark and moody images I felt that a contrasting take would be a good tangent. Originally a series of disconnected 'straight shots' assembled in a collage. Now the piece is virtually abstract with only numbers and characters from a keyboard to connect it to any form of 'realism'. Much more 'flat' in nature than all of the work of 2021, "Shishaashuu" is contrasted against the rest of the year's imagery which really explored depth through a variety of formal techniques.
Colour: I rarely ever work in such high-key, pastel hues and muted greys, so again, the work does a complete 'about face' and marches shamelessly into a softer palette. "Don't usually like to go there? Then it's time to go there".
DOUBLE ZOOM for in-depth exploration.
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Darkness comes out of the earth
And swallows dip into the pallor of the west;
From the hay comes the clamour of children’s mirth;
Wanes the old palimpsest.
The night-stock oozes scent,
And a moon-blue moth goes flittering by:
All that the worldly day has meant
Wastes like a lie.
The children have forsaken their play;
A single star in a veil of light
Glimmers: litter of day
Is gone from sight.
D. H. Lawrence
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Music:
"Vesper Sparrow" (Missy Mazzoli), by Roomful of Teeth, in 'Render' (2015)
open.spotify.com/track/0zzvihf22cm3chBSVS2hjN?si=813b1f3e...
from the archive (2009!!)
it's so interesting to look back on what one made over a decade ago...this was one of my own favourites....from my obsessions with premises undergoing refurbishments....not sure what that says about me.
William Kentridge the South African artist has a major exhibition at the Yorkshire sculpture park called “ The pull of gravity “. It was a remarkable collection of pieces sculpture painting and drawing . The best part of the show that was impossible to photograph were two films shown over eight huge screens in the YSP largest gallery they were extraordinary . The show is till April so if you are in the UK and can get to the YSP you are in for a treat.
William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second's to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.
Kentridge has created artwork as part of design of theatrical productions, both plays and operas. He has served as art director and overall director of numerous productions, collaborating with other artists, puppeteers and others in creating productions that combine drawings and multi-media combinations.
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Hand-written label on wooden chest from a pharmacy (showin in context and labels on other sides in adjacent photos). A detail to fit into 3inches.