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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 23, 2012 at 7:19pm

Large painted envelope LA BALLADE DES PENDUS based on a poem by Francois Villon.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballade_des_pendus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballade_des_pendus

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 23, 2012 at 7:17pm

ONLY DEATH IS IMMORTAL, small painted envelope, 

a reaction on reading the novel DEATH AT INTERVALS by José Saramago.

What would happen if death went on strike in a country and men became immortal?

The church has to revise its doctrine, undertakers go bankrupt, organised crime cannot kill anymore and have to smuggle their victims in another country.

When death returns letters of warning are sent to the people who are going to die but what if those letters are returned?

Hilarious novel, Saramago on his best!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 22, 2012 at 4:50pm

MACHINE A VAPEUR AVEC LE SEUL BUT D’EVAPORER LES DIEUX ET DEESSES D’ANTAN,

collage linked with the automatic text that follows!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 22, 2012 at 4:46pm

DREAM ABOUT A STEAM MACHINE WITH AS ONLY FUNCTION TO EVAPORATE PAST GODS & GODDESSES

(automatic text)

Menacing clouds above Brussels,

above a strange looking rooftop.

Why is this stream of steam escaping now?

On the left I see 3 chimneys.

On the right of the rooftop there are 4 chimneys.

I demonstrate my middle finger to the closed skies,

shouting with a the simplicity of a maiden voice:

god, or whatever, you only approve symmetry,

but I shall never recognize the wonder of your so-called cration,

your bipolar obsession for peace and harmony is leading to a blind

hatred for what seems to be according to your own standards

not to be in balance on a rooftop I am watching this moment.

The dark clouds open thru’ a sudden ray of sunshine

& god, or whatever, starts shouting back:

NO, NO, my only purpose with this creation

was that you all got a grip on things,

that you could become responsible yourself

of the order of disorder or the disorder of order.

I had no other ambition, really, this is true!

I don’t give a damn about fake equilibriums

which have NO or LITTLE importance at all in the run of time.

My brother, the devil, has explained this to you in detail, that was his mission after all,

but you have chosen to burn his voice at the stake, so stage fright were you all!

I only ask this small question through the loop-hole of your secured houses and fences:

WHEN WILL YOU BE READY TO CONTROL

OR UNCONTROL YOUR OWN GIVEN EXISTENCE?

Thunder and lightning echo that there is no difference or contradiction

in this challenge....

Of course, the voice continues, as one of the many gods

(and why did you start thinking that there is only one)

I can only define myself as an atheist,

so you morrons are able to earn the credit

of running your own lives, finally!

I bow my head & look to the rooftop

now bathed in golden sun light and I see that

3 chimneys are smoking white light,

the other 4 are spreading black light.

Steam blows from my nose, my body becomes machine!

All makes sense now.

In a jolly good mood I burn

the bible and other self proclaimed holy books,

so they can join the smoke.

I try to determine in which light they are transformed but honestly, I DO NOT KNOW !!!

Guido Vermeulen, June 2012

Comment by Rebecca Guyver on June 22, 2012 at 8:53am

Guido, love your pages for Cheryl.  I am feeling slow and not able to hone in on an idea yet even though Cheryl's title is great. 

Theresa, I am finding the automatic writing discipline helpful in uncovering ideas.  Must be more disciplined! Guido posted the automatic writing in his photos and I can see how the map really did follow directly from a stream of consciousness around a flexible mind. Fun, fun, fun!

Comment by cheryl penn on June 21, 2012 at 12:12pm

Thanks for posting the images Guido - they just fit so perfectly with the poem - I am looking FORWARD to receiving them! :-) X

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 21, 2012 at 2:20am

A great chain of connections: Bruno Sourdin (France) made this collage for the Blackbird 10 edition by David Stone (USA). Eric Basso saw a similarity between this collage and his own writing, so wrote a poem around the collage after seeing it in BB 10!

SYNCOPE the old woman knew there would be blood on her hands as she followed four paces behind her shadow which had taken on the consistency of the thick grass at its feet the shadow was dissolving the woman thought of litanies fit to be chanted by madmen of the red monkey crouched in the corner of the bedroom she would never see again she tripped over dead roots murmured to the blackbird that hovered above her head look hard enough and you will find the vivisection room at the end and to the right neither the bird nor the man who collapsed by the chair where the ivy wall began could understand a word of what the woman tried desperately to tell them the brief glimpses of memory vague rumblings of marsh gas the toothed bow plowing the water of a moonlit lake faded slowly as the shadow lay down with the woman June 20, 2012

ERIC BASSO, USA

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 21, 2012 at 2:08am

NAPALM HEALTH SPA magazine 2012

with contributions amongst others from Eric Basso, Kirpal Gordon and Guido Vermeulen.

Internet zine on a yearly base, mail contributions only in May to editor Jim Cohn.

http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs12/index.html

 

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on June 21, 2012 at 1:58am

Just...wonderful work you posted below, Guido.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on June 21, 2012 at 12:24am

THE ART OF MOVEMENT project

is a project on the relations between art, movement and space.

Free medium. Postcard size creations. Deadline is August 25, 2012.

Street exhibition will happen in September.

Mail contributions to

Adriana Cordero - Colabortorio Arte
via Palermo 157
70024 - Gravina in Puglia (BA)
ITALY

http:/www.colaboratorioarte.com/

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