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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23 May 2023

a female gaze


Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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LOGOS/HA HA


* The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such all genders can create films with a female gaze. Wikipedia



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18 March 2019

School Strike 4 Climate : STAR Quadrille


- Providing the weather is fine, its* Grandeur
     cannot be surpassed.

The quadrille is a dance movement that was fashionable in late 18th and 19th century Europe and its colonies. Performed by four couples in a rectangular (later, a diamond matrix) formation, it is related to American square dancing.

A Climate Change Quadrille* 
T R U L Y    A E S T H E T I C

Theatre of the Actors of Regard   
Sun Theatre of Applied Renewables   
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  A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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14 November 2014

Bodhisattvas Observe NY Street Enso

         

 STAR*                                                         click image to enlarge
             

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13 November 2014

… and that’s it."



STAR* _ Street 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


"There is also little mystery in her photographs which is probably why they don’t rise to that next level: look at the photograph of the two men staring at a length of hose on the ground on a rainy street in NY. The hose just sits there, the men are caught mid-gesture… and that’s it."

- full review here
    
      

 collection : AGNSW 
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something ... 

 LOGOS/HA HA