lymph - drown

[nobrashfestivity]

Aubrey Beardsley (Detail) 1895

Mirror of Love: frontispiece for the book: The Thread and the Path

[groundsalad]

Giuseppe Penone

Untitled, 2000

China ink and sepia on Japanese paper. 

[daviddupuis]

“Ugly Boy”     2019

iPhone drawing, digital print.

30”x22″

[daviddupuis]

“When I Was Young”    2019

Colored pencil graphite & collage on paper.

7.5″x5.5″

[zegalba]

Fuyuko Matsui

[cruiseorbecruised-deactivated20]

Lionel Wendt

Talking Head, 1950

Sheet-fed Gravure

7.5 x 9.5 inches

[mjaomjaomjao]

Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810)

From the series: The Times of the Day

[senso1954]

"poem for george miles" by dennis cooper (from the dream police, selected poems 1969-1993)

When I first sharpened a

pencil in purpling language

and drew my first poem

from its raveling depths

it "poured my heart out"

as thoroughly as I would,

make that could, at nineteen:

"His eyes are the color

of silk just inside a mink

jacket, always luke-warm

like his hand as it rests

on the nape of my neck till

my shorter hairs bristle."

That was ten years ago.

My eyes were black pinpricks

in sharp, tensor light

which my indistinct moods

were explored with, pried

open like tenement doors

on their shadowy hideout

while homework, porn books,

and rough drafts piled up

beneath with a pedestal's

sense of illuminating that

which was most elaborate.

The poem is now cleaned

out of power, as a bed is

once sunlight has entered.

I see its mathematics: lines

built as an ornate frame

around a skeletal feeling

that's faded from sight.

Who knows what I meant?

With time, I can guess

that I thought and worked

hard, watched my words,

made them bright as they'd

beam, until I could say

to myself, This is full.

[genitalholocaust]

[genitalholocaust]

[daviddupuis]

“Ariel”  2013

Color pencil, graphite and collage on paper.

7.5"x5.5"

[daviddupuis]

“A Few of Us Remain”    2016

Collage on paper.

7.5″x5.5″

[daviddupuis]

“Dread”    2017

Collage on paper.

7.5″x5.5″

[nobrashfestivity]

Alfred Kubin, Die Sauger (The Suckers).around 1903

[hyaenagallery]

Unica Zürn part 2 In Paris, Zürn began experimenting with automatic drawing and anagrams, pursuits Bellmer had a longstanding interest in and encouraged her to pursue. These early works were collected in Hexentexte (1954). Between 1956 and 1964 she had four solo exhibitions of her drawings and her work was included in the “Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme.” The couple frequented the city’s surrealist and related artistic circles, becoming acquainted with Hans Arp, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joyce Mansour, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, and others. In 1957 she was introduced to Henri Michaux, who she identified as the “Jasmine Man,” a fantasy figure of her childhood. She fell deeply in love with Michaud, and she joined him in several of his experiments with mescaline. These drug experiences may have precipitated her first mental crisis.

In 1960 Zürn experienced a psychotic episode. She found herself spellbound and hypnotised by Michaux, he appeared before her and ordered her to do things. She was eventually hospitalised, and after this she would be in and out of psychiatric hospitals for the rest of her life, suffering from dissociative states and severe depression. Scholars now generally believe that she was schizophrenic, and that was indeed the initial diagnosis by staff doctors at Karl-Bonhoeffer-Heilstätten during her first hospitalization, though it was later retracted. It has also been suggested that rather than schizophrenia she may have suffered from bipolar disorder with psychotic features.

After her first hospitalization and a suicide attempt, Zürn returned home in a wheelchair and destroyed most of her drawings and writings. She was subsequently taken to the Saint-Anne psychiatric clinic. Despite her ongoing battle with mental illness, Zürn continued to produce work, and Michaux regularly brought her art supplies. Her psychological difficulties inspired much of her writing, above all Der Mann im Jasmin (“The Man in Jasmine”) (1971). #destroytheday

[santoschristos]

H.R Giger, Tarot art

[huremics]

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious