New Tombstone

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 17, 2011 at 7:40am

Installation in my garden: the tomb of the secret lovers: ceramic piece by Lady Loulou with added stones, earth and bones by me. Loulou is the outsider artist and close friend who inspired my painting «the last voyage». She has a room of her own in the art brut museum of Lausanne in Switzerland and in my flat (hihi). She was a  nurse working with terminal patients, so a lot of her amazing ceramics is linked with human suffering and death! She’s also into «Asemics» in the Henri Michaux tradition.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 17, 2011 at 7:35am

Comment by Alicia Starr on November 15, 2011 at 7:40pm

Guido, the title of your collage, Death is the final renegade is a poem in itself.  and the Balta piece...changes with each glance. 

again, thinking of you and hoping you find some semblance of peace.

Comment by Alicia Starr on November 15, 2011 at 7:32pm

yard art.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 15, 2011 at 7:08am

Thanks Theresa and yeah, this is bloody hard indeed! Posted some pictures on kiekjesdief without much explanations. She has not changed much, not on the level of spirits, not on the level of looks (to me anyway)|.

Collage I made against fundamentalism in all religions, the cat called BALTA  is a stray cat my friend saved from starvation or how we do the same things despite difference in years, experiences, situations and living in different continents!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 15, 2011 at 2:29am

Thanks Theresa and Alicia,

I am in a bit of a turmoil right now because another friend of me is dying slowly.

The first big (HUUUUGGGE is a better word) platonic love in my life. Lost touch with her during more then 30 years. Found her back again thru Facebook!

She is dying from a type of leukemia that will eat all her bone structure away. I only communicated with Cheryl about this. I am devestated, so probably will have to write another obituary (the later the better but I don’t want she dies in awful pains...)

Here is an older collage I called Death is the final renegade... (made this for the Renegade project of Lois Klassen in Canada, year is probably 1997 or 1998, postcard edition as well but no copies left)

Comment by Poison Label Productions on November 14, 2011 at 2:08pm

Well geez - i think almost everything I make is dead....

Comment by Alicia Starr on November 12, 2011 at 4:55pm

Guido, the story you wrote about your friend touched my soul. In awe of her spirit and spunk even if she is a bit crazy. It seems craziness is a prerequisite to live in this world. So with confidence and grace you will salute her. And, it's even better you will have a 'llitle help from your friends'.

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 12, 2011 at 4:26pm

Jacky is a HE, not a SHE. Blog site: http://artpostalement.blogspot.com/

Address in Germany on the site. He lives now there because in love with a German woman. Writing to him will be difficult, he’s French and the French know only French!

Here are other works he mailed me (for the book of Ann):

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on November 12, 2011 at 4:11pm

Poem that is part of a long letter to Theresa:

 

STONE-BLIND

 

Dedicated to Theresa Williams and Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

The shadow of the graves are stone-blind.

They ignore the beauty of the sleeping grass,

taking a sun bath late August.

 

Death has no eyes, explains a buried bayonet,

in this earth of hidden treasures:

sugar, coffee, tea, shrapnel, helmets, grenades,

gas masks for the mantle piece.

 

Death has no eyes but sees you anyway,

sings a finch. Remember «POO-TEE-WEET?»

Is war a form of aviculture? I asked the bird.

War is a fluffy bagatelle, the grass answered,

except for those who fight it,

except for those who die and yes

the shadow of the graves are stone-blind.

 

 

 

Guido Vermeulen

12 November 2011

 

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