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.
What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough to take the world and all it's got
And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more
And turn out coffee colored people by the score
Melting Pot (1969)
Blue Mink
This is what we need, you decided this
What you say...oooo (x4)
What We Need (2008)
DJ Wich featuring Glasses Malone and Lil Wayne
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
Title Song (Oh, I needed that!)
(2013)
Slave Guitars
Black Inc. Newsletter
February 2013
"This month we’re thrilled to publish Party Time by Rowan Callick, which looks at one of the most powerful institutions in the world: the Chinese Communist Party.
"Party Time is an essential and eye-opening account..."
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
WHAT'S SO
GROUNDBREAKING
ABOUT
someone looks at something...
?!
click image to enlarge
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
Vale Con
1924.2.23
priest
neighbour
nature photographer
frame maker
2013.1.23
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
You've asked for more information.
Not a lot is known. Twenty years ago, through a string of connections, we sought an interview with someone (anyone) from The Debt Collection.
All that came back to us on that occasion was this 'blank' page with letterhead.
We tried again after your inquiries. This time a little more came back, albeit enigmatic.
click image to enlarge
One of our staff is interested in rebus messages. She suggested this might be one such. It is code...
FREEDOOM
Those who are ignorant
of Art|History
are DOOM to repeat it
Those who are knowledgeable
of Art|History
are FREE to repeat it
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
Today, 14 February is widely celebrated as Valentine's Day.
"St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. The most popular martyrology associated with Saint Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire..."
- from Wikipedia
Today, 14 February 2013, it feels like the story has turned another terrible full circle : news arrives of the 100th self-immolation by a Tibetan seeking freedom for Tibet :
This morning we received the sad news that the 100th self-immolation by a Tibetan living under Chinese rule has taken place. Lobsang Namgyal, a 37-year old Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery, was known as a serious and exceptional scholar. He set light to himself and died in Dzoge on 3 February.
Due to the security clampdown in Tibet, this news only reached us, via the exiled Kirti monks, on 13 February, the same day that a young monk set light to himself in Nepal. The monk, who has not been named and whose status is unknown, staged his protest near Kathmandu's Boudhanath stupa on the third day of Losar (Tibetan New Year).
- Australia Tibet Council email
CLICK HERE to view a (non-violent) 3 minute video of the 100.
Here, from the video, a few of these portraits...
First, below, TenzinWangpo. We wrote about her on International Women's Day last year :
"Twenty-year-old Tenzin Wangmo, a nun at
Dechen Chokorling near Ngaba town, called for religious freedom in Tibet
and the return on the Dalai Lama as she set herself on fire outside of
the nunnery. She died at the scene after less than 10 minutes. Sources
have reported militarization intensified at Dechen Chokorling nunnery
and the surrounding areas. She is the first woman to self-immolate in the history of Tibet."
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
China blocks Aussie official's Tibet visit
14 FEB 2013, 2:03 PM - SOURCE: AAP
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says Australia's ambassador to China has had no luck getting Beijing's permission to visit Tibet.
Australia's top diplomat in China has been unable to win Beijing's permission to visit Tibet after almost a year of trying.
Foreign
Minister Bob Carr announced in March 2012 that Ambassador Frances
Adamson would seek to travel to Tibet to talk to locals and look into
why a growing number of Tibetan pro-independence protesters were setting
themselves on fire.
"Unfortunately I'm not able to share encouraging news," Senator Carr told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Thursday.
Ms Adamson had made several requests but so far to no avail.
"I regret that I can't report progress," he said.
anOn
ensO sOus rature
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
TOREI Enji
Large Enso (Zen Circle)
Steven Addis translates the calligraphy above as
The image presents itself,
nothing more.
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
O
One mOOn
Of
China and Tibet
fOr bOth Of whOm
The Year Of the Snake begins tOday
SOZAN Genkyo
1799-1868
Kanzan and Jittoku Pointing t0 the M00n
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
And ...
fOr thOse Of a meta-mind
fOr thOse with a view Of inter-dependence
fOr thOse whO incline alsO tO the causes
nOw is the mOment Of Our OurObOrOs
click image to enlarge
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
mOmus
We reply
Aye to that!
(-)Ops?!
Story Of An Eye (1998) by mOmus
cOncludes...
"But,
sitting here in my eye-patch, I personally hope that the Prosthetic Age
will be a lot more than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pamela Anderson
duetting, in the soundtrack to some Post Human blockbuster, 'Thanks for
the mammaries... and the memories!' We need to get beyond this paradox
of the super-normal, this normal-only-more-so thing of bigger muscles
and bigger boobs.
When I get that replacement eye, it's going to look a lot more interesting, and do a lot more things, than the one I lost.
Maybe I'll get them to put it on the back of my head so I can watch the twentieth century slipping away."
- click HERE to read Story Of An Eye
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
Here is a scene from the controversial 1988 Melbourne production of stOry Of an eye as performed by the Operating Theatre of the Actors of Regard : in which...
a crOss Of
One cut + One lOOp Of knOtted thread
hOlds tOgether
One eye
Of the wOrld
click cOsmOs tO enlarge image
And I'm in love with everyone who knows it's hard
To build a way of seeing
Who knows that nevertheless that's the only way
To flame into being
Yeah, I'm in love with everyone who knows it's hard
To build a way of seeing
Who knows that nevertheless that's the only way
To flame into being
- from Flame Into Being, mOmus (1987)
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
LOGOS/HA HA
click image to enlarge 
click cOsmOs tO enlarge image
