This glossy 8x10 arrived out of the blue with several others placed inside an old folded movie poster.
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Showing posts with label eye. Show all posts
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19 September 2023
T - + - R
This glossy 8x10 arrived out of the blue with several others placed inside an old folded movie poster.
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
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06 August 2023
TAR : Taking After Redon
The exhibition 'Photography and the Performative' at Sydney University's Chau Chak Wing Museum, displays a work by Imants Tillers, If I close my eyes. His instagram website describes it thus :
Curated by Katrina Liberiou, the show explores the intersection between photography and performance.
Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection
This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”
Imants Tillers
If I close my eyes (2021)
189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161
10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall)
University of Sydney Art Collection
This conceptual work comprises 189 Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers carried a camera with him during his daily life and documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.”
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‘Taking After Redon’ re-imagines ‘If I close my eyes’ with the views of Sirius Cove replaced by views of Odilon Redon’s ‘Les yeux clos’ (Closed Eyes) c.1890.
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07 June 2022
FOCUS GRUPPE ] inTARnational ( presents
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10 June 2021
Looking To See
photo Caroline Tisdall
Joseph Beuys at Sandycove urinal lookout, Eyeland, 1974
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18 February 2021
re. the eye and the ire
What a joy
to see so much great Australian Open tennis
these past two weeks
Tennis of the Actors of Regard
watching TV tennis
Djokovic refocuses his mind and goes on to win
reading Seeing Zen
Hakuin and the liberation focus of Daruma
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02 September 2020
f o r e ! h e a d
On looking deeper into Victor Hovland's TAR
"double-pump" action :
for Peter Jones
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07 August 2020
to be calm
paint-writ ship
on a wordless see
JAANUS : Paintings or prints of this boat usually include a special and auspicious poem which reads the same when read backwards from the end:
nagakiyo no/ tou no nemuri no/ mina mezame/ naminori fune no/ oto no yokikana
長き夜の/ 遠の眠りの/ 皆目覚め/ 波乗り船の/ 音のよきかな
'Awakening from a deep sleep after a long night,
I seem to hear the sweet sound of a boat
sailing through the waves.'
Wikipedia : A picture of the ship forms an essential part of traditional Japanese New Year celebrations. According to custom, placing a Takarabune woodblock print beneath a pillow on the night of 2 January may induce a lucky dream – a sign that the year to come will be fortunate. In the event of an unpleasant dream, the print may be disposed of by tossing it into a river.
The custom of putting a picture under the pillow started around the Muromachi period. It was initially popular among the nobility, and spread to commoners during the later Edo period. Street vendors sold cheap woodblock prints, intended for single use.
bLOGOS/HA HA : the LOGOS/HA HA image below is from a staffer's dream of the late 1980s.
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21 July 2020
B Advised C Better with TAR Spectacles
Old Talk New Talk
New Normal?
Same Old Same Old?
Try TAR (by Luminari)
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10 July 2020
I'm with stupid >
And I'm with dickhead, says the four-eyed phallLOGO/HA HAcentric narcissist.
above : Four-eyed Acolyte, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
from Ghost Stories: Night Procession of the Hundred Demons
from Ghost Stories: Night Procession of the Hundred Demons
c. 1830
*This four-eyed kozô holds higo-zuiki (dried stems of sweet potato), which were used as a sex toy.
below : Four-eyed ArCulyte*
from MythoLOGOS/HA HA of the Art Cult
*Ar Cul : culture hero turned Art Cult deity
- the pointing hand is self-referential; the other hand displays strings of inter-connectedness
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07 April 2020
gaze anaTARmy
Gray's Anatomy (1858)
gaze anaTARmy
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07 January 2020
via Hotel Bellevue
Bonzaview
by Label cascade
to the see
by Label cascade
to the see
Marcel Duchamp, Étant donnés : study for waterfalls backdrop
Étant donnés in progress at 14th Street studio, New York 1965
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10 October 2019
Come in, spinner.
[Chorus]
Upside down
Boy, you turn me inside out
And 'round, 'round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me inside out
And 'round and 'round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me inside out
And 'round and 'round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me inside out
And 'round, 'round
Upside Down Lyrics
Diana Ross
After yesterday's mirror and lens image reversals, especially this by Bass|Duchamp...
Marcel Duchamp (American, b. France, 1887-1968). Details of
To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with
One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, 1918.
One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, 1918.
Oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass,
mounted in a standing metal frame, 20 1/8 x 16 x 1 3/8 inches.
mounted in a standing metal frame, 20 1/8 x 16 x 1 3/8 inches.
Museum of Modern Art (New York) Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
Photo: Jacquelynn Baas.
...today we add upsidedownhead to the mix.
...today we add upsidedownhead to the mix.
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Below, as recently seen on rage rage rage rage
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20 August 2019
a void pissing in the wind
We recently read the Jacquelynn Baas essay
Before Zen : The Nothing of American Dada with it's further consideration of the ...Duchamp/Mutt/
Wood/Steiglitz/Norton... 'Fountain'.
When the jurors of The Society of Independent Artists firmly rushed to remove the bit of sculpture called the Fountain sent in by Richard Mutt, because the object was irrevocably associated in their atavistic minds with a certain natural function of a secretive sort.
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Alfred Stieglitz, photograph of Marcel Duchamp’s
Fountain, as published in Beatrice Wood, The Blind Man, No. 2,
May 1917.
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection.
When the jurors of The Society of Independent Artists firmly rushed to remove the bit of sculpture called the Fountain sent in by Richard Mutt, because the object was irrevocably associated in their atavistic minds with a certain natural function of a secretive sort.
Yet to any ‘innocent’ eye how pleasant is its chaste simplicity of line and color! Someone said, ‘Like a lovely Buddha’; someone said, ‘Like the legs of the ladies by Cézanne’; but have they not, those ladies, in their long, round nudity always recalled to your mind the calm curves of decadent plumbers’ porcelains?
At least as a touchstone of Art how valuable it might have been! If it be true, as Gertrude Stein says, that pictures that are right stay right, consider, please, on one side of a work of art with excellent references from the Past, the Fountain, and on the other almost anyone of the majority of pictures now blushing along the miles of wall in the Grand Central Palace of ART. Do you see what I mean?
And more such (from wikipedia) :
In a letter dated 23 April 1917, Stieglitz wrote of the photograph he took of Fountain: "The "Urinal" photograph is really quite a wonder—Everyone who has seen it thinks it beautiful—And it's true—it is. It has an oriental look about it—a cross between a Buddha and a Veiled Woman."[2][25]
In 1918, Mercure de France published an article attributed to Guillaume Apollinaire stating Fountain, originally titled
"le Bouddha de la salle de bain" (Buddha of the bathroom), represented a sitting Buddha.[26]
. . . .
It all reminded us of this 'wall-gazing Daruma' scroll by the Zen master Nantembō (1839–1925).
In a letter dated 23 April 1917, Stieglitz wrote of the photograph he took of Fountain: "The "Urinal" photograph is really quite a wonder—Everyone who has seen it thinks it beautiful—And it's true—it is. It has an oriental look about it—a cross between a Buddha and a Veiled Woman."[2][25]
In 1918, Mercure de France published an article attributed to Guillaume Apollinaire stating Fountain, originally titled
"le Bouddha de la salle de bain" (Buddha of the bathroom), represented a sitting Buddha.[26]
. . . .
Since the photograph taken by Stieglitz is the only image of the original sculpture, there are some interpretations of Fountain by looking not only at reproductions but this particular photograph. Tomkins notes
"Arensberg had referred to a 'lovely form' and it does not take much stretching of the imagination to see in the upside-down urinal's gently flowing curves the veiled head of a classic Renaissance Madonna or a seated Buddha or, perhaps more to the point, one of Brâncuși's polished erotic forms."[1][42]
It all reminded us of this 'wall-gazing Daruma' scroll by the Zen master Nantembō (1839–1925).
collection : FIAPCE
The inscription as translated by John Stevens :
The form of our Grand patriarch
facing the wall in meditation
or is it a tasty melon or an eggplant
or is it a tasty melon or an eggplant
from around here in Yahata?
(signed)
(signed)
Eighty-five-year-old Nantembo Toju
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08 August 2019
'Nomad is an eyelet' (after Jod Dudde)
Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology
The Speech Pathologist Looks at the Tonsils and the Adenoids
First Published March 1, 1975 Research Article
Volume: 84 issue: 19_suppl, page(s): 63-66
The Speech Pathologist Looks at the Tonsils and the Adenoids
Volume: 84 issue: 19_suppl, page(s): 63-66
05 April 2019
ICE PIE
something beginning with c
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