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.


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16 November 2023

TENEZ LE DROIT / Uphold the Right [Angle]




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

  

10 November 2023

re. the stakeholder and the short end of the stick


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

11 September 2023

Me 'n U (for Jo & Michele)


The Appetiser Recycled
(re-using a drawing from the mid-80s)



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


   

20 August 2023

FLOWER DRUM SONG


A cover version of yesterday’s “Flower Sermon” in which one of the actors was a percussionist.

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            for Margaret Plant  

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


    

01 July 2023

TAR On Parade (-1979-2015-2023-)


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 TAR street parade (-2015-) with Andrea Lindsay.
 Below, with Susie and passer-by self-porTARist
 photos by Lisa Gervasoni

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 TAR : Travel_Act_Rest (-1979-)


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


   

23 September 2022

MLB>SYD 1978


FIAPCE                                                                                                     -1978-
I love Sydney and Sydney loves me.


Theatre of the Aviators of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
 LOGOS/HA HA
             
   
          

19 May 2022

Controversial HAND SPACE exhibition, after Gerard van Honthorst


  Smiling girl, a Courtesan holding an obscene image, by
  Gerard van Honthorst (1625) 
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
 LOGOS/HA HA
       
     
     

23 January 2022

Vale Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 -2022)






 The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism (click here)


on office wall at bLOGOS/HA HA
                           
Penguin | Random House 

HAND SPACE/FIAPCE/TAR  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
 LOGOS/HA HA


    

22 January 2022

As seen

HAND SPACE/AS SEEN IN VOGUE 
HAND SPACE/AS SEEN HERE  
 Bonnie and Kind
 Luxurious leather kits for baby & toddler & travel 
 essentials.


HAND SPACE/FIAPCE/TAR  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
 LOGOS/HA HA



20 January 2022

To see

              a World in a Grain of Sand 
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
- William Blake, the opening lines of Auguries of Innocence

 Painting on silk, 9.2 x 4.3 cm. Toyok, 8th-9th century. 
 (Ethnic Uighurian region in Northwestern China) 
 Museum fur Indische Kunst (MIK III 6348)

The Flower Sermon is a story of the origin of Zen Buddhism in which Gautama Buddha transmits direct prajñā (wisdom) to the disciple Mahākāśyapa. In the original Chinese, the story is Niān huā wēi xiào (拈花微笑, literally "Pick up flower, subtle smile").

In the story, the Buddha gives a wordless sermon to his disciples (sangha) by holding up a white flower. No one in the audience understands the Flower Sermon except Mahākāśyapa, who smiles. Within Zen, the Flower Sermon communicates the ineffable nature of tathātā (suchness) and Mahākāśyapa's smile signifies the direct transmission of wisdom without words. The Buddha affirmed this by saying:

I possess the true Dharma eye, the marvelous mind of Nirvana, the true form of the formless, the subtle [D]harma [G]ate that does not rest on words or letters but is a special transmission outside of the scriptures. This I entrust to Mahākāśyapa.[1]

Jung and Kerényi demonstrate a possible commonality in intent between the Flower Sermon and the Eleusinian Mysteries:

One day the Buddha silently held up a flower before the assembled throng of his disciples. This was the famous "Flower Sermon." Formally speaking, much the same thing happened in Eleusis when a mown ear of grain was silently shown. Even if our interpretation of this symbol is erroneous, the fact remains that a mown ear was shown in the course of the mysteries and that this kind of "wordless sermon" was the sole form of instruction in Eleusis which we may assume with certainty.[2]

- Wikipedia : Flower Sermon

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

   
   

27 October 2021

Les Artistes

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

28 June 2021

"Get Haiku" -- script by 'believed murdered'



GET SHORT  

] A Re-make (    

Two unlikely literary    
detectives receiv    
bloodied haik   
manuscript:    

GET HAIKU    

HAND SPACE  
Advertisement as clue :
"Get Haiku" Getto Aoki Haiku width box of 1 width
Masaoka Shiki, Osaka Senbajin Kansai Haiku Kansai Haiku Matsuse Aoi Yosa Buson

collection: FIAPCE  
above: haiku for the Bridge of Dreams incident...

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

   
     

25 February 2021

TARyatids of the Parentheseion


The Laughing TAR 
of near and far
marched to the top of the hill


They marched on down again


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

     

       

24 February 2021

Marching Song


The Laughing TAR 
of near and far
marched to the top of the hill

They marched on down again

And when they were up, they were up


And when they were down, they were down


And when they were only half-way up


They were neither up nor down

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

     

     

09 February 2021

The Perfect Collection


The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare 60 Year Old currently holds the world record for the most expensive bottle of whisky ever sold. It is widely regarded as the pinnacle in rare whisky collecting, with scarcely any having experienced the satisfaction and pleasure of owning a bottle so unique and of unparalleled reputation. 

The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60 Year Old will be available within the second part sale of The Perfect Collection by Mr. Gooding along with an incredible selection of sought-after vintages from the Fine & Rare series. If you would like to take part and share in this historic occasion, please keep an eye out for updates on when The Perfect Collection: Part Two will take place in 2021. 
Our staff are not whiskey drinkers. It's the above article's carefully composed photo of the whiskey connoisseur
David Cox in formal regard that engages our own finer appreciation : this classic TAR subject-light-object and its complex composition detail.

Above the provided eyeline is a row of five evenly-spaced white light spheres, each with a golden circle-of-circles equaTAR. see : binary-world lighting systems.


These lights lead our attention toward a heavy curtain. It is open just enough to reveal another golden circle divider bordering a round mirror into which the front-of-house orbs plunge in reflection. And in there, a blurry posture of regard.


It directs our focus back out to its sharper source.


The formal actor sees a different scene to the one we see. He beholds a white gloved HAND SPACE display, akin, say, to a white cube exhibition of an On Kawara painting. 


Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
HAND SPACE  
FIAPCE  
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
  
LOGOS/HA HA
     

     

Postscript 

Perfect whisky collection sells for over $9 million at auction
https://artdaily.cc/news/133347/Perfect-whisky-collection-sells-for-over--9-million-at-auction#.YDgwyOkzauU