Michal Czeisler, The Ball is In Our Hands, 2014
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Michal Czeisler, The Ball is In Our Hands, 2014
Not as tasty a pair of images as I anticipated it to be. (Jean Haines watercolor painting and Sarah Moon photograph)
“You” by The Aquatones, a mystical doo-wop song, since there never was one that sounded like this, the mystique in a hollow well of crying mermaids. Dancing to this is to go into full theatrical garb of wallowing lament. And here I make my descent into over-painted, antiheroic sentiments? Whoops, I went out of myself, didn’t I, to write that sentence?
I love the 1930′s woman for her non-sexual, statuesque role in her garb. Provocative? Yes, but with HER style, therefore, un-sexualized dressing. Something like architecture, style like a gorgeous building, an independent construction. The draping, the longer skirts, the elaborate hairstyles growing out of a new haircut -- hedonism for the epicurean’s sake is done with, and the sensationalism of last decade has cooled into a svelte self-respect. A variety of collars, mix-and-matching to move with practicality since your coin purse is jingling very little... And then, in high fashion, dressing with the concept, Schiaparelli and her surrealists...well-cut, and well-fitted absurdity marry fantasy and thought with the body and the body representing (not itself) but ... a thought .. a fancy. George Hoyningen-Huene, Toto Koopman wearing design by John McMullin, 1933.
A "thing to love..." Like Aleksandr Rodchenko's release of energy in objects, ...
“In 1977, the short decade of the New Left violently comes to an end. Militant groups such as the Red Army Faction have descended into political sectarianism. Gratuitous violence, macho posing, pithy slogans, and an embarrassing cult of personality have come to dominate the scene. Yet it is not 1977 that sees the myth of the leftist hero come crumbling down. The figure has on the contrary already lost all credibility, beyond rehabilitation...”
Paris, for Vogue UK, wedding gown (1961). Frank Horvat.
“#b/w”
A black and white photograph, those “dizzied-looking” ones , so common to our Ye Olde Photograph aesthetic thanks to Instagram and Tumblr, where Avedon and Steichen are generalized into vintage icons because of the “lo-fi” quality, annoying, because it is not a “quality” that exists in the work’s context, it’s an anachronistic viewing perspective. “Vintage,” is a joyful babble and tasting of objects with an antediluvian “quality,” anonymous art ...
Kitagawa Utamaro, Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure Night of the Asakusa Marketing Festival, Edo Period
Pablo Picasso with Cat (1936) - photographed by Roland Penrose
This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego.
Eckhart Tolle (via ontheedgeofdarkness)
Dream #7 of Summer 2014
She was an older woman, he had begun to find her charming, and was on the brink of finding her thoroughly A PERSON, in a single view. He began to feel that he was complete in a space where he was un-netted, freedom. He was becoming warm, and in this sunset montage in his consciousness, when he was simultaneously preparing for a fall, he learns she has consumption, and he feels a reaction of being unequivocally stymied. He is so very terrified, and he was convinced this was the same terror as before he knew that fact, and he is so very terrified, he scarcely indulges in sadness. He fears. He cannot CONCEPTUALIZE love, he cannot think of being in love with her. He runs away, never to see her again, and marries a provincial flapper, and her name is Emily. He tells everyone he loves Emily very much. He lets all see his display, as the UN-permeated dandy. The small circular space of darkness, trailing behind him like a stray cat, the impetus, is rendered an empty room -- the kind one passes by in an abandoned mansion, it's blank, you'll never know, you just pass by. When you are in complete fear that a certain impetus will rip through the construction of the self, sexuality becomes mysterious. It is a story like The Scarlet Ibis, something that seems to ride out, like a carriage in morning sunlight, upon something jovial and then faces a reality of death. A childish trust, a fondness, becomes an unfathomable poignant suspension.
Robert Longo's Men In The Cities (1979) series, the photographs and charcoal reproductions.
Raymond Scott's "Portifino" Sounds like an amusement park ran on Zanax, don't you, too, feel like a kitten watching an array of polychromatic strings dangling in front you?
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves... The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse Far off the sea that your eye bathes These images of day after day The vices the virtues so imperfect The transparency of men passing among them by chance And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips The vices the virtues so imperfect The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours The imitation of words attitudes ideas The vices the virtues so imperfect Love is man incomplete.
Paul Eluard, As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
Musicals
I'm not being embarrassing enough. There's a posed drama for everything... the Lolita filled with ennui, ... I don't like real grit, just dreamy fragments with no structure,
I have no desire for evidence, I don't know that I scramble for it all the same, "I could be a dancer," stepping out of the shower. The pipe dream motive for the short lessons of exercise each week... Maybe that's why I said "a dancer is the healthiest of artists," yet I'm reading Nijinsky's diaries preceding his lockup for schizophrenia
The effects of Lee Miller, Man Ray's Works Electricity (1931) - top L'oeil de la Bouche (The Eye of the Mouth) (1933) - left (photo of paper spiral, descending into "ambiguity of space") (1922) - right Observatory Time: The Lovers (1936) - bottom
‘Beautiful as the accidental encounter, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella’ - Isidore Ducasse
Man Ray's "The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse" (1920) Inspired by the simile by the writer, Isidore Ducasse (1809-1887), A phrase admired by the 1930s Surrealists who "saw it as paradigmatic of a new type of surprising imagery, as well as replete with disguised sexual symbolism."
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/man-ray-lenigme-disidore-ducasse-t07957