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Handmade Ezra Pound (Ezruckus Poundamonium) paper doll for a series of skits in which E.P is the main star. --Theresa Williams
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Automatic writing by Nancy Bell Scott.
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One of a set of cards made while contemplating the poet Theodore Roethke. On November 12, Roethke suffered the first of what was to be many mental episodes. It happened in the cold Michigan woods, and he described the experience as having a "secret" revealed to him, which he said was the secret of "Nijinsky." Nijinsky was a famous ballet dancer who was institutionalized for schizophrenia. With your permission, I'd like to post your artwork at my blog: The Letter Project. I'm also looking for letters about literature and creativity. All works from the blog have gone through the postal system.
gentili Signori poeti e artisti visivi, sono felice di far parte di questo gruppo.Ecco il perchè.Da sempre il mio lavoro cammina tra immagine e parola.Testo e materia visiva.Poesia e carta dipinta…Continue
Started by Alfonso Filieri. Last reply by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams Jul 12, 2011.
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Guido - your post from a while back that reads:
"Paintings that are a translation in my visual world of some of the DREAM SONGS poem by John Berryman:
1) Life friends, is boring.
We must not say so."
The image is just Stunning! I prefer muted colors to bright ones because the subtle interactions are more eloquent to me, more meaningful somehow - they seem to be deeper because they are less obvious (facile). Imo, it takes a very heightened sensibility to really make this come through and speak in a piece, yet it can be amazingly poignant when it does. You, dear sir, are a master!
Split comments in 2 parts Zois
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Poem in Dutch that came to me in a dream, to accompany a large painting I was working on (see LAMUSAR blog for details)
THE SUICIDE OF WORDS
In onze monden zijn
woorden zo onvolmaakt
dat ze zelf verkiezen
zelfmoord te plegen
uit liefde voor de taal
& voor de wandelende klankkasten
die wij zijn geworden
in de beperktheid van het verkennen
van onszelf naar de andere
alsof we enkel onbegrip nog kunnen
omarmen en vertroetelen tot
ongekende hoogten.
Wij denken dan zelfverminkend
that we are on top of the world!
De interpretatie van het woord
heeft de taal onthoofd
samen met ons begrip en aanvoelen
van mekaar.
In plaats daarvan hangen wij
het onvermogen uit van de martelaar.
Het gras is nat aan mijn voeten.
Er kleeft slechts 1 klinker aan
& dat is ver van voldoende.
Ik tel de minuten in minuut
& kom dan tot de slotsom
dat regen een mooiere taal
is dan het Nederlands.
Ik lees de veren op het hoofd van de indiaan
want dit vertelt mij meer dan het Engels.
Ik observeer de vlucht van vogels
& lach om het gebrek aan powezie in het Frans.
Ik streel de bast en schors van bomen
om mijn eigen blindheid te trotseren.
In een andere tijd wellicht zal ik
me in al die talen kunnen wentelen
als een teef.
In een andere tijd wellicht zal ik
de andere kunnen beminnen
omwille van hemzelf/haarzelf.
In een andere tijd zal ik kunnen reizen met de aders van die tijd.
GV
2 September 2012
VISTORY in 4 parts (Visual story)
4 pages accompanied by cut up texts:
1) What flows in keeps a fat pig on sandals happy
2) I see boys transplanting toes at bridges, if only the potholes weren’t so typical
3) Much of it was hidden away in watery fields
4) The answer is rooted in the sequence of events
Another 4 page contribution for Cheryl Penn’s magazine Mail Art makes the World a Town
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