David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


01 January 2009

Theatre of the Imaginary New Year, with projection-space for words and images illuminated

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January the First. Theatre of the Imaginary New Year, with projection-space for words and images illuminated. Selections from the work of architect S. Charles Lee (1899 - 1990).

THEATER : SPACE FOR LETTERS ILLUMINATED



NAME : (SOMETHING) SPACE FOR LETTERS



SIGN : LETTERS

RIQ : LETTERS : FOUR LINES OF LETTERS


LA VONA : SIGNS : ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR : PARKING


VOGUE : SPACE FOR LETTERS : SIGN : SIGN


These images come via the wide-eyed BibliOdyssey where their sources are given in detail and where further such may be seen, along with information about S. Charles Lee:
S. Charles Lee, born Simeon Charles Levi in Chicago in 1899, was the son of American-born parents of German-Jewish ancestry, Julius and Hattie (Stiller) Levi. Lee (who later changed his name from Levi) grew up in the Chicago of Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. (more ...)