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.


27 September 2020

clear + present


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26 September 2020

from the Shore of the See to the Forest of TAR ] Cocking an ear to listen (


  The Phoenix Foundation - Landline

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25 September 2020

Hunting Lodge ] in the Forest of TAR (


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24 September 2020

On Being : lost in the Forest of TAR

 
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 Little boy lost (1947)
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 Lélio Orsi (1511-1587)
 Le Christ aux mille croix
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 Little boy lost in the Forest of TAR 

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22 September 2020

'No matter how one looks at it...'

 
... the inscription on this work, however, is a more enigmatic and seemingly incomplete thought : 
'No matter how one looks at it...'       - The Met

 Daruma, Hakuin (1686-1769)                      collection THE MET

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21 September 2020

Wakey-wakey!


Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin kungfu. In Japan, he is known as Daruma. His name means "dharma of awakening (bodhi)" in Sanskrit.[1]

Little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is extant, and subsequent accounts became layered with legend and unreliable details.[2][note 1]

The biographical tradition is littered with apocryphal tales about Bodhidharma's life and circumstances. In one version of the story, he is said to have fallen asleep seven years into his nine years of wall-gazing. Becoming angry with himself, he cut off his eyelids to prevent it from happening again.[36] According to the legend, as his eyelids hit the floor the first tea plants sprang up, and thereafter tea would provide a stimulant to help keep students of Chan awake during zazen.[37]
Wikipedia     

 Daruma, Hakuin (1686-1769)                         collection FIAPCE

見性成佛  
look within to become a buddha 

Hakuin brushed a variety of different messages on his pictures of Bodhidharma, perhaps the most common being four Chinese characters 見性成佛 that convey a clear and essential teaching of Zen: "Look inside yourself to become a buddha." 
- Daruma by Hakuin, The Met. 

"The four characters above are from a poem, attributed to Bodhidharma himself, that gets at the central teaching of Zen, that all individuals already possess a buddha-nature and that through focusing inward through meditation, one may realise this and gain enlightenment." 
-  Daruma by Hakuin, MIA



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20 September 2020

Vale NOTORIOUS RBG


 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)

 'This is my dissenting collar. It looks fitting for dissents.'

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19 September 2020

On Being | Rage Rage Rage


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18 September 2020

If upon this stage o TAR






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17 September 2020

Via Flora


COVID-19 restrictions were eased today in country Victoria. Here are some daily-walk encounters over the past month. 


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Word has it, it's been a good year for camellias, 'queens of the winter flowers'. Below, Radium Avenue, Old Jack's uprooted dandelions left to dry, 'otherwise hard to kill'.


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16 September 2020

Art Projects, 566 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne


During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism. (Part 5)

  Graeme Sturgeon, 'Opening of another season' 
  The Australian, 5 March 1980 
read full article click here 
 
FIAPCE fotography 
Art Projects was on the top floor of Henderson House, 566 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne :
- the office was through the two windows top left,
- the smaller room exhibition space was through the two top centre  windows,
- the large room exhibition space was through the two windows top right 

To see a scale model of Art Projects large room with its continuing meta-exhibition* click here 
*coincidental with Imants Tillers' 'Two Descriptions of the Same Moment'


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15 September 2020

MADA Artforum : In Memory of John Nixon Wednesday 16th September 1-2pm - online.

 
A special Artforum dedicated to John Nixon’s work and contribution to artist run initiatives, curating and collaborative practices. Speakers include Kathy Temin, artist and Head of Monash Fine Art, Anna Schwartz, Director of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Amalia Lindo and Jacqueline Stojanovic, artists who assisted John Nixon in his studio, Max Delany, Director of ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and artist Rose Nolan.

REGISTER HERE
John Nixon at Teksas, Denmark  
photo courtesy Karin Lind and Peter Holm  

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14 September 2020

Grate Expectations

During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism. (Part 4)

  Gary Catalano, review extract re. exhibitions by  
Murray Walker (Powell Street Gallery, South Yarra)  
Peter Tyndall : Dagger Definitions (ACCA, Melbourne)  
John Walker (NGV, Melbourne)  
Elizabeth Sullivan (George Paton Gallery, Melbournne Uni  
  The Age, 19 August 1987 : read full article here  

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13 September 2020

Please explain. (MPs remain unenlightened.)


During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism. (Part 3)

This is from an article in the Saturday Age, about the Australian Parliament House Art Collection.
   
  Tom Duggan, 'House of art and enlightenment'  
  p 4-5, The Age, Saturday Extra : 19 December 1987  
*no such letter or request was ever received by the artist  
  
collection FIAPCE  

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12 September 2020

hisTARy


During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism. (Part 2)
   
  Memory Holloway, 'The School of Cool'  
  The Age : 3 August 1983  
read full article here   

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11 September 2020

The Terror ] pron. TAR (


During COVID lockdown, we've been re-reading some Australian art criticism.

  John McDonald, 'A hollow, self-conscious laugh' 
  SMH : 21 November 1987 
read full article here  

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10 September 2020

Taxa Rank : HAND SPACE sideroxylon


From a recent post at Tim Entwisle's Talking Plants blog,
about the Red Ironbark trees of central Victoria : 
Bendigo, Castlemaine, Chiltern...

Red Ironbark wood is a 'handsome Australian hardwood', with excellent durability and strength - hence its use in wharves, bridges, railway sleepers and mining - as well as some beauty in crafted furniture and flooring. The species name, sideroxylon, translates as 'wood like iron'.

The Red Ironbark grown in streets and parks is the widespread Eucalyptus sideroxylon subspecies sideroxylon.


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Ranks in botany   Wikipedia 

According to Art 3.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) the most important ranks of taxa are: 

kingdom, division or phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. 

According to Art 4.1 the secondary ranks of taxa are :

tribe, section, series, variety and form. 

There is an indeterminate number of ranks. 

The ICN explicitly mentions:[5]

primary ranks

secondary ranks
further ranks

kingdom (regnum)

subregnum

division or phylum (divisio, phylum)

subdivisio or subphylum

class (classis)

subclassis

order (ordo)

subordo

family (familia)

subfamilia
tribe (tribus)
subtribus

genus (genus)

subgenus
section (sectio)
subsection
series (series)
subseries

species (species)

subspecies
variety (varietas)
subvarietas
form (forma)
subforma

There is an indeterminate number of ranks (part 2) :

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08 September 2020

1x pair lines | signed sealed delivered |


collection FIAPCE 
CLICK for full image by Nagasawa ROSETSU (1754-1799) and poem by Yotsubo Tsubo aka Yoyotsubo (1756-1834)


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07 September 2020

COVID-19 & The Masks of God


Edwin Hatch unmasked
1878 author of 
Breathe on me, Breath of God


  4. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    Fill me with life anew,
    That I may love what Thou dost love,
    And do what Thou wouldst do.
  5. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    Until my heart is pure,
    Until with Thee I will one will,
    To do and to endure.
  6. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    Till I am wholly Thine,
    Until this earthly part of me
    Glows with Thy fire divine.
  7. Breathe on me, Breath of God,
    So shall I never die,
    But live with Thee the perfect life
    Of Thine eternity.

H M Bateman unmasked
1916 author of 
The Boy who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum : An Ante-Bellum Tragedy.

Henry Mayo Bateman b.1887, Sutton Forest, NSW

It all began so innocently for the boy about to breathe on the glass at the British Museum...

     

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"Breathe on me ...


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So begins a hard life under the Law ...
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Joseph Campbell unmasked
1959-1968 author of 
The Masks of God

ex libris FIAPCE  

COVID-19 lockdown protester immasked x VicPol
third-person singular simple present immasks
present participle immasking
simple past and past participle immasked

Police place a face mask on an arrested protester at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the state's strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Yours faithfully,

Editor
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