bLOGOS/HA HA: regarding The Unbearable Likeness of Being

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.

04 January 2021

regarding The Unbearable Likeness of Being

A penny for y/our thoughts re. Ian Burn's Mirror piece

(1967) and Jeff Koons' mirror surfaces, from his Rabbit (1986) to the NGV's recent $25million reflecTAR folly.

regarding TARists as specific-bonding detail

Mirror productions in general. About self-projection and self-reflection. About ] being ( created in the image and likeness of God, in the image and likeness of...

About image. About projection-space and the projectionauts of TAR.

'the image is not an idea. It is a radiant node or cluster...a VORTEX, from which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing'

Ezra Pound
Fortnightly Review, 1 September 1914
as quoted by John Bown, Framing W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett: How and Why Two Writers Used Fine Art/Its theories in their Texts

About likeness. A recent encounTAR with this staging of money-mirror-light-reflection-regard.

At just 200 pixels wide, our first impression reckoned the reflecting surface to be the base of a Piero Manzoni can of Artist's Shit. Not so, but alike.

Beholding pattern - to be and to hold. Regard as radiant node!

Mirror mirror in my hand

who's the est-est in the land?