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.


28 February 2022

Vale Ken Whisson (1927-2022)


  Paintings by Ken Whisson at the Watters Gallery in Riley St. 
  Flag for David Ireland (4 August 1981) Fairfax Media Archives

  Ken Whisson, Landscape with Real People, 1996 + 2001

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27 February 2022

remembering Mikhail Gorbachev


"Everything has got to change: the authority, the federation, the economy... and the position of the individual."
Mikhail Gorbachev, 25 Aug 1991
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26 February 2022

cogiTAR ergo sum


found meme over 1950s Man Ray photo of Marcel Duchamp
We can't confirm that Duchamp ever said that about ideas, but it did set us to thinking...
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25 February 2022

Ukraine

     
Come all without, come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn

- Bob Dylan, Quinn the Eskimo (1968)
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24 February 2022

more mental fabric | scatter brain


  Noel Counihan, Laughing Christ, 1970

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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23 February 2022

mental fabric

        
TARist doing the Hilda af Klint  

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22 February 2022

Iron Maiden | Iron Matrix | Iron Mandala | TARborealismus


FIAPCE photo Brisbane 2007                    Theatre of Arboreal Restraint

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21 February 2022

change of circum stance



          She's changing her name
          From Kitty to Karen
          She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron
          I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

          - Cake, Short Skirt/Long Jacket


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20 February 2022

name of change


It was 
                      The New Chalet
now it is 
                      The Amalfi


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17 February 2022

Sunbury 72


Ye Gods of Rock, it's another 50th anniversary!


Barefoot in the Grass : 50 Year Anniversary of the Sunbury Music Festival is at Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury, until March 27. 

Tonight, there will be a panel discussion featuring festival lighting director and author Peter Evans, plus roadies, musicians and fans, and performances by Mike Rudd of Spectrum and Brenden Mason of Madder Lake. 

Sunbury 72  
Your correspondent was there too, with a notebook a nib pen and a bottle of India Ink.

Theatre of the Anniversaries of Rock  
In 1971, Mary Macqueen was one of our RMIT Architecture faculty tutors. At Crossley Gallery, I had seen her rapid impression pencil drawings of zoo animals. Hence...
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
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