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.
The human brain is divided into two hemispheres – left and right. Scientists continue to explore how some cognitive functions tend to be dominated by one side or the other; that is, how they are lateralised. - Wikipedia
TARists of binary matters and matrix studies continue to observe Re. subject matter regarding object matter
Self-Portrait with Two Circles, Rembrandt, painted c.1665–1669
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Not so much music of the spheres as resonant matrix, and thereof an orchesTAR of local inflections. A village pick-up band, after Ives and Cage and the Sengai Slave Guitars.
Score of 'The Universe' as performed by Sengai Slave Guitars
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Late last night Ch. 9 showed the 2015 film LIFE.
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Life is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Anton Corbijn and written by Luke Davies. It is based on the friendship of Life photographer Dennis Stock and Hollywood actor James Dean, starring Robert Pattinson as Stock and Dane DeHaan as Dean.
The film is an American, British, German, Canadian and Australian co-production, produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman from See-Saw Films and Christina Piovesan from First Generation Films with co-financed by Barry Films Production. Wikipedia
Set in 1955, an important chapter of LIFE is James Dean's return visit to his family's farm in Indiana. He takes with him the photographer Dennis Stock.
Above, heading back to Melbourne, John Brack's The Car (1955) passes Dean and Stock. As does the outgoing TARmobile troupe, below.
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Rex Butler regards ...
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Jane Sutherland, Obstruction, Box Hill, 1887, oil on canvas,
41.3 x 31.1cm. Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Here, we draw (see below)
and re-read Part 5 of T S Eliot's The Hollow Men :
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Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
. . . ."Now all I have is a reproduction, and it is not enough. Sometimes it just isn’t. I can’t wait for all this to be over, so I can get out of my paddock and go and see for myself. Like the young girl in Sutherland’s painting—and, needless to say, this is to make it just another in that long line of works of art that are seen somehow to be prophetic of our current plague—I feel obstructed. I feel cowed. I feel covid.
The painting reaches over to me, across the fence separating us. But more than anything, I just want to stand there before her and it and be judged. Have I done right by them? Have I let them out of the paddock?"
- Rex Butler
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Instruments of the Passion (continued)
four breath masks
four carry bags
four book cover cloths
four paintings of dependent-arising
A Praise to the Four Noble Truths : conceived and gathered in Kathmandu (Nepal) and in Bodhgaya (India) in 1998; realised at ACCA (Melbourne) in 2006 for Juliana Engberg's The Unquiet World.
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In India at that time, the air pollution was so bad that many wore the simple cloth masks sold on the street by children. Protection of any sort thought better than none.
Here now in 2020 :
- in our COVID-19 pandemic atmosphere
- breath protection masks are worn worldwide
- as the WHO investigates this coronavirus cause
- as scientists attempt to find antidote and cure
The Four Noble Truths :
- the truth of suffering
- the truth of the cause of suffering
- the truth of the cessation of suffering
- the truth of the path that leads to the cessation of suffering
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Instruments of the Passion (continued)
Sign of the the Cross
Sign of the Guillotine
Sign of the Electric Chair
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Sign of the Sign
Sign of the Void :
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Jeremy Irons' character in 'Night Train to Lisbon' :
"If Jesus had been put to death with a guillotine,
we would be praying in front of a big shiny blade.
Or, if he'd been electrocuted, we'd be genuflecting
in front of a chair."
Andy Warhol, Electric chair (1967) collection NGA, Canberra
Lenny Bruce is said to have earlier said :
'If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.'
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Instruments of the Passion (continued)
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Instruments of the Passion (continued)
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A paperweight is a small solid object heavy enough (usually a glass marble), when placed on top of papers, to keep them from blowing away in a breeze or from moving under the strokes of a painting brush (as with Japanese calligraphy).
While any object (like a stone) can serve as a paperweight, decorative paperweights of glass ] or brass or copper : see below ( are produced, either by individual artisans or factories, usually in limited editions, and are collected as works of fine art, some of which are exhibited in museums. First produced in about 1845, particularly in France, such decorative paperweights declined in popularity before undergoing a revival in the mid-twentieth century.
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