#drawing restraint

[marinolta]

[cosmonautistic]

A favorite underrated genre of music is gibberish like Björk in Bath and much of Drawing Restraint #9. You don't know what she's saying so you have to interpret based on how it makes you feel.

You can't decode it with a lyric sheet or break it down line by line. You feel it. its rhythm, its desperation or wonder or strangeness and that interpretation is yours alone. Like glossolalia or invented lullabies, gibberish taps into pre-linguistic memory, or the idea of music as pre-thought communication. It feels ancient and avant-garde and visceral and primal.

[disease]

"DRAWING RESTRAINT 7" MATTHEW BARNEY // 1995 [book in plastic box and silk ribbon | U/D]

[elcineasta]

MATTHEW BARNEY FUCKING MY EYES 

[elf-indulgent]

Me to my brain: we know now that "drawing restraint" is not a synonym for showing restraint, you just inferred this from the works of Matthew Barney, it is not a known phrase

My brain: draw some restraint. I am drawing restraint. restraint? Has been drawn, I believe

[ecstaticmagic]

DRAWING RESTRAINT 2, Matthew Barney. 1988.

[elf-indulgent]

I know how sellout-y it is that there was both Drawing Restraint 9 and Cremaster 'merch’ but gonna be honest here and admit my love for these patches knows no bounds.

For those curious, a set of 5 Cremaster patches is going for about $400 on Etsy, and I can’t find the DR9 patch selling anywhere online.

[elf-indulgent]

Some of the costumes in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle and Drawing Restraint 9.