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?

 Piero Manzoni beholds can (1963)    foto Giovanni Ricci (1963)
 Kid Kubist beholds block (1951)                      foto Reg v. Brock
 a penny for y/our thoughts
 regarding The Unbearable Likeness of Being
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
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