#empty mirror

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Allen Ginsberg ⸻ from Empty Mirror: Early Poems (1961)

[macrolit]

Empty Mirror and Howl Allen Ginsberg

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“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

It is a memorable line in The Great Gatsby. The heroine — Daisy — wants her daughter to be a beautiful little fool.

This series title “Blanc Cassé” means the broken white in French traditional colour. There is no deep-black evil, also there is no snowy-white innocence. I wonder what is the best thing the girls can be in this broken modern world.

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Blanc Cassé

© visual poetry by hiromi suzuki, 2019

published in Empty Mirror  (January 3, 2020)

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[lifeinpoetry]

I came to know how to leave what you / love and come back, live.

Alina Stefanescu, from “What I Sought in Bucharest, Summer of 1990,” published in Empty Mirror

[terracemuse]

I feel a longing for my father before he was born.  (Ikkyu 1394-1481)

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I am collecting old postcards in tins. Tins are boxes emptied of souvenirs such as chocolate candies, cigars, and tea leaves. Old postcards are purchased at my secret store in Tokyo. By the way, I have never been to Bern, Rome or Yellowstone. However, I am enjoying a journey around the world by making collages with old postcards. And my collages have remaining scents of chocolate, cigar and orange pekoe.

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Chocolate, Cigar and Orange Pekoe

© visual poetry by hiromi suzuki, 2019

published in Empty Mirror  (September 27, 2019)

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[lifeinpoetry]

yes, it hurts, that’s the moral of the story. yellow is the color of my wanting. I’ll say to you, here is honey — eat.

— Irène Mathieu, from “artifacts of daily wanting,” published in Empty Mirror

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Juicy Satellite

The Age of Aquarius

Microchipped Love

Galaxy Filament

Fantastic Voyage

Groovy ETI

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For me, making collages is the most fun. First of all, I will cut the pages from the 1960s fashion magazines and the Scientific American, and put them into an empty confectionery box. Then I take the images out of the box and edit my original stories. It seems to be making paper dolls and playing in fiction as same as my childhood.

After studying literature at the college, I worked at an insurance company for tuition and entered art school. It was a private school in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo called Setsu Mode Seminar (the closing down of a school in 2017). I remember that I made many sketches of “groovy” models in the atelier three days a week. The late Setsu Nagasawa (1917-1999) who was the founder of Setsu Mode Seminar was an authority on fashion drawings. And he was also a journalist who reported Paris Fashion Week which held in Paris, France each year. I hear that Japanese surrealist Toshiko Okanoue (1928- ) began to make collages because she was admiring Setsu Nagasawa’s fashion drawings. By the way, she had worked with Katsue Kitasono (1902-1978) several times when Kitasono was an art director.

The words I learned from Setsu Nagasawa regarding the art are 《Freedom》 and 《Elegance》. In addition, what I aim for as an artist is 《Humor》. If let me say adding to it, it is 《The art which makes me (or you) a singer》.

I am singing now,

“I miss the earth so much…” ― ‘Rocket Man’ Songwriters: Elton John, Bernie Taupin

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Six collages by hiromi suzuki

© collages by hiromi suzuki, 2019

published on Empty Mirror  (June 21, 2019)

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