L'abîme est un band de Montréal in- fluencé par le jazz, le rock, & le classique contemporain. This isn't them. More likely the painted shape is one of those bits of bricolage, the detritus one finds rolling around the bottom of an abyss. Magritte, more concerned with shadow than with shape, appoints it the head of a child. No jazz there. Possibly death metal.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
#489 Le parfum de l'abîme
Sunday, April 17, 2022
#488 Le Genre Nocturne
The woman hides her head. Except she has no head. Is that what she is trying to hide? The wall is a dirty gray. There is an oval shape on it. Egg? Opening? Mirror? Is cracked, whatever it is. The presence of the woman's hands prevents us from looking past the cracks to see what's hidden there. The mirror stares back at us. We raise our hands. The wo- man hides her head before them — except she has no head to hide.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
#487 The Two Mysteries (2)
There are two pipes. Or, rather, two paintings of the same pipe which are meant both to please others & ourselves, & to make others pleased with us. Do not say there is no heart in the work here—its basis is the human heart. The sorcery lies in an operation rendered invisible by the simplicity of its result—to make the pipe new, but floating in a natural silence where attention to the small details extends it more than it illustrates it or fills the void. To make it legend. Text Sources: This Is Not a Pipe, by Michel Foucault The Ladies' Book of Etiquette (1860), by Florence Hartley
Thursday, March 10, 2022
#486 Lyricism
So it doth appear, said Macbeth, or something like that. Though he was talking about daggers, not about pears or people who resemble them. Even so, the underlying mess- age was certainly clear — all appearances are subjective.
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
#485 Le Civilisateur
Three paintings of a dog, all different dogs but the same one painted. All different names but painted under the same name. Somewhere I read that this Loulou was black, but painted white for the occasion. Narrow nostrils, but supposedly had a big heart. So loved by its child- less owners that it traveled with them everywhere, even to the States, its right of passage paid for by a promise to allow the fuse- lage of one of the airline’s planes to later carry a Magritte motif. All things pass, including the in- fluence of a civilizer. The livery of the plane redone to reflect new alliances. & of the other themed air- craft, Tintin will be the next to go. |
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Sunday, February 27, 2022
#484 The Son of Man (3)
Sunday, February 13, 2022
#483 Intimate Journal
& on the sixth day She remade man in their own image, after their own likeness, but with minor differences. The one to carry a briefcase, & the other a clean handker- chief, so that he could remove the small chips of stone that would in- evitably catch in the eye when tears didn't come.
Thursday, February 03, 2022
Three poems from Series Magritte at YouTube
via The Continental Review
Read by Miia Toivio & with graphics by Marko Niemi
Sunday, January 16, 2022
#482 High Level Meetings
Certainly the river in the distance confirms that this is up a mountain. & the shadowy figures in the cave are recognizable from their starring roles in many paintings. But the painter who made them famous also caused them to be regarded as typecast; & now, in the years after his passing, their income stream has almost dried up.
Which is where a bit of creative accounting comes in. Get together in some out of the way place. Bring a friend, someone they have previously appeared with but whose bejeweled androgyny still guarantees work in these non-binary times, & who can easily pass as an agent or manager. Then claim inflated expenses when they list this interaction on their tax forms, describing it as a high level meeting.
Which is where a bit of creative accounting comes in. Get together in some out of the way place. Bring a friend, someone they have previously appeared with but whose bejeweled androgyny still guarantees work in these non-binary times, & who can easily pass as an agent or manager. Then claim inflated expenses when they list this interaction on their tax forms, describing it as a high level meeting.
Friday, January 07, 2022
#481 René Magritte et Le Barbare
The only way to capture Fantômas is to enter his dreams. — René Magritte The Luftwaffe's first bombing run on London; & Magritte's first one-man show in that city shut down by it. Several pain- tings destroyed, including Le Barbare, one of Magritte's many homages to Fantômas. This photo all that is left to remember it by, could easily be titled Fantômas et son doppelgänger, two masters of the magical, one able to vanish at will, the other able to make the invisible visible. Both wear the formal costume of the magician: one is disappearing before our eyes, of his own accord. The other large as life, but wondering if he will have the strength to make the barbarians he can't see coming disappear before they can arrive.
Friday, December 24, 2021
#480 Les Ombres
Oh how the shadow of the pipe falls behind every- thing it comes in contact with. Except. This is not a shadow.
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