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 March 2022

Julia Ciccarone, re. An Instrument for Seeing


We are reposting these from juliaciccarone : two of the paintings Julia exhibited via Niagara Galleries at the recent Melbourne Art Fair, along with her Instagram comments.
Julia Ciccarone, An Instrument for Seeing, 2021
oil on Dibond
40 x 52cm

An Instrument for Seeing: The ability to pay attention to detail and analyse the activity around you comes with heightened awareness, but this can typically only be achieved during certain states of consciousness. A person who experiences a high level of awareness needs to be more in control of their thoughts.
Julia Ciccarone, The Other World, 2021
oil on Dibond
60 x 70.5cm

The Other World: he has the capacity to remember all the way back to the origins as well as to see all the way into the future. In order to see both ways, however a person must enter the present more fully.

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
  
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