Saturday, March 09, 2024

#531 La Veillée

A lighted candle & holder cut from a music score. Papier collé, glued paper, evoking techniques from some decades before, invoking thoughts of his brother, a musician, poet. Laid beside the candle, eggs in a nest. Though not known where they were laid. Nor known which came first, the candle or the eggs. Not that that matters. Take notice of the notes, their similarity to DNA, the genetic information of the music. & the eggs, the ongoing vigil waiting for them to hatch, to bring more life in to the world as we hold the candle up to illuminate their progress. Note the frisson be- tween them, candle & eggs, the magic imparted by being together, the dust of dusk accompanying them, adding to the mystery.

Friday, February 23, 2024

#530 Le Somnambule

It should have been a one- pipe problem, Watson, but my sleep patterns have been irregular lately, have moved from the no sleep of cocaine use to an ersatz sleepwalking, full of fear, as if the hound of the Baskervilles was hard on my heels. I wake, immediately reach for another pipe. Have lost count of how many I’ve smoked in the last few weeks. & now I’m having visions, will suddenly see an owl in my chair, my pipe in its mouth; & we have moved from Baker Street to somewhere in the country. & the owl peers at me through its saucer eyes, takes the pipe out of its mouth, looks down at it & says to me: “This is not a pipe.” & what it means by that, Watson, is the problem. Is beyond my sphere of expertise.

Sunday, February 18, 2024

#529 Les Pierreries

So much alike as we peer from the box we could pass as brothers. But what’s in a box is often more than just contain- ment, what reso- nates can be more than beauty is. Gems we might some- times be referred to as; but what other facets will be displayed when the lid is lifted?

Monday, February 05, 2024

#528 La Joconde (1962)





The slice-of-sky curtain is
center stage — or should
that be center plage? Behind

it are two other curtains, red
this time, ready, when the
bell starts to ring, to move

slightly forward & draw to-
gether to conceal the other &
leave only sand & sea in sight.

Sunday, January 28, 2024

#527 Collage (Sur L’Oiseau Mort) (1926)




The silhouette of a man’s
head has the cutout of 
a bilboquet within it. 

Pinions a dead bird, an
image also found in a
painting done the same 

year. A whiff of sadism 
to them — the sparrow
usually emblematic of

fragility but here associ-
ated with a violent death.
Who knows what angst

remained in the painter’s
heart: but ever since, most of
his birds were live & white.

Friday, December 15, 2023

#526 Portrait de Commandant Marius Delsaux (1923)

No need to flee to Canada
to avoid les rigeurs of
military service
                             when you
have artistic ability of such 
an high level that a portrait 

of your commanding officer promotes you to an alternative method of serving the military — painting portaits of the remain- der of the garrison officer corps.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

#525 Après le bal

In more modern times it would
be My Fair Lady. “I could have
danced all night, & still come back
for more.” Or maybe not. Naked
on a bed, asleep. Not so much a
bed but a plinth. & she obviously 
worn out, comfort not a consider-
ation. & the curtain that partitions 
now from before drawn back to 
reveal a destruction that has not
necessarily paused, houses on their 
sides, the floor of the room, the out-
side, those hills beyond, all cracked
beyond repair, bilboquets run amok, 
fallen into the grass or still flying 
around. But this is back then, back 
when the phonograph was barely 
invented, & she no untouched Aphro-
dite but fully formed, fully conscious — 
though unconscious — of her surrounds. 
No seashore, no halfshell, no cherubs, 
just somewhere offstage a disenchanted
Pygmalion translating some sheet 
music to an upright piano & singing 
to himself the before of it. “Down fell 
the glass dear, broken, that's all,
just as my heart was after the ball.”

Monday, November 13, 2023

#524 Tête d’homme (1920)





There is always a
before, he said, but
let your imagination

shape what comes
after, even if you had-
n’t planned a head.

Sunday, November 05, 2023

#523 The Boys' Club

"This is the inner circle of the Paris Surrealists
arranged around the outer perimeter
in straight lines"



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Participants: Maxime Moses Alexandre, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Jean Caupenne, Paul Éluard, Marcel Fourrier, René Magritte, Albert Valentin, André Thirion, Yves Tanguy, Georges Sadoul, Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, Max Ernst, & Salvador Dali
Photographs by Man Ray
Collage by André Breton
Central artwork by René Magritte : Je ne vois pas la [femme] cachée dans la foret (I do not see the [woman] hidden in the forest)
Created for La Révolution Surréaliste, no.12; 15 December, 1929

“It's the cuckoo egg placed in the nest (the lost clutch)
      with the complicity of René Magritte”
— André Breton

Friday, October 27, 2023

#522 The Improvement


Things might seem to be
how they seem until you

reach the door — or, more 
probably, one of many doors — 

marked Magritte the Magi-
cian, open any of them, & 

discover the invisible that 
resides behind the visible.

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

#521 La Bonne Aventure


 
The clichés, which should
have been here in numbers, 
are nowhere to be seen. Have
fled, some further down the
seaside cliffs, some gone on
board that passenger liner
which is now full steam a-
head for the open sea, all
struck dumb by a sensory
perception of the androgy-
nous eroticism inherent in 
this oversized nose, at once
both phallic & feminine. Only
that synecdoche sycamore re-
mains, certain that, at some 
time soon, the equivalent of a
fig leaf might just be needed.