30 May 2020

Herstory Painthing


Further to last week's Falls the Shadow 
which began :

In today's edition of Memo Review 
Rex Butler regards ...

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  

 Jane Sutherland (1853-1928), Obstruction, 1887
   
Turns out, it was neither a cow (La vache qui rit) nor a bull (Logos). It was, in fact, another young girl, MISS-spelled by a malevolent ha-ha turned split-logos (post and rail), immured in deceptive appearance.
   
ha-ha (Frenchhâ-hâ or saut de loup) is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond.
The design includes a turfed incline that slopes downward to a sharply vertical face (typically a masonry retaining wall). Ha-has are used in landscape design to prevent access to a garden by, for example, grazing livestock without obstructing views. In security design, the element is used to deter vehicular access to a site while minimizing visual obstruction.
The name "ha-ha" is thought to have stemmed from the exclamations of surprise by those coming across them, as the walls were intentionally designed so as not to be visible on the plane of the landscape.[1] Alternatively, it may have been referred to as "ha-hah" as an abreviation of "half and half" with half a wall and half a ditch. Daniel Dering in 1724, John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont (father to the prime minister, Spencer Perceval), observed of Stowe: "What adds to the beauty of this garden is, that it is not bounded by walls, but by a ha-hah [sic], which leaves you the sight of the beautiful woody country, and makes you ignorant how far the high planted walks extend."
  

 Elioth Gruner (1882-1939)
 Landscape : Two Figures at Post and Rail Fence
 Lot 16 : Shapiro : SH179 - Australian and International Art
 for auction 10 June 2020

Upon the scene arriving, seeking judgement, liberation, Prince Elioth didst deconstructed that spelling rail and so released the trapped girl|s, the one and thus the other, to be and to talk, together, free. Unbounded.


 Jane Sutherland (1853-1928), Little Gossips, 1888
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
 LOGOS/HA HA