Abu-Chanab (Father Of The Moustache)

Fig. 1. Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau (le Douanier) - The Repast of the Lion, ca. 1907

'As for the idea of a native country, that is to say, of a certain bit of ground traced out on a map and separated from others by a red or blue line: no. My native country is for me the country that I love, that is, the one that makes me dream, that makes me feel well.'

Gustave Flaubert

Addendum: Mel Kadel (for JP)

Fig. 2. Bubble Gum Stick, 2006

Fig 3. A Little Time Alone, 2006

Fig. 4. He Loved To Weave, 2006

Fig. 5. Planting A Fudge Seed, 2006

Fig. 6. Scary Water, 2006

Fig. 7. What You See From A Tree, 2006

Fig. 8. Little Stumps, 2007

Fig. 9. Daily Exercise, 2008

Fig. 10. Escort, 2008

Fig. 11. Grounding, 2008

Fig. 12. Holding Down The Fort, 2008

Fig. 13. Secret Geyser, 2008

Fig. 14. The Wall, 2008

Fig. 15. Unearthing, 2008

Venus Heard Me Sigh This Song*

Fig. 1. Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) - La Pianiste, 2001 (d. Michael Haneke)

Witchcraft By A Picture

I fix mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye;
My picture drown'd in a transparent tear,
When I look lower I espy;
Hadst thou the wicked skill
By pictures made and marr'd, to kill,
How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?

But now I've drunk thy sweet salt tears,
And though thou pour more, I'll depart;
My picture vanished, vanish all fears
That I can be endamaged by that art;
Though thou retain of me
One picture more, yet that will be,
Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.

John Donne

* From The Indifferent by John Donne.

Your Ears Will Orgasm #12: Black Venus (MixPod Player)

1. Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game
2. Betty Davis - Anti Love Song
3. Fiona Apple - Not About Love
4. Nouvelle Vague - This Is Not A Love Song
5. Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
6. Patti Smith - Everybody Hurts

Between Chaos And The Perfect Compendium

Fig. 1. Giovanni Paolo Panini - Ancient Rome, 1757


'Thus the life of a collector maintains a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order.'

Walter Benjamin

The Endless Night Of Paper Shadows

Fig. 1. Frank Miller - Sin City, 1990s


‘Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: “here are our monsters”, without immediately turning the monsters into pets.’

Jacques Derrida

Addendum: I Shadow Boxers

Fig. 2. Mischa Merz at Doherty's Gym, November 2008

The Sad Aristocracy Of Mild-Mannered Ascetics

Fig. 1. Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) - Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, 1953


'Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.'

Giacomo Leopardi

Addendum: The Sunday Six: Part One (Relatively Recent)

Fig. 2. Eduardo Costa - Lygia Sleeping and Dreaming (Portrait of Lygia Pape), 1997-8

Fig. 3. Erwin Redl - Matrix II, 2000-3

Fig. 4. Philippe Parreno - The Writer, 2007

Fig. 5. Tadashi Kawamata - Catedral de Cadeiras, Ville de Reims, 2007

Fig. 6. Lottie Davies - Quints, 2008

Fig. 7. Marco Perego - The Only Good Rock Star Is A Dead Rock Star, 2008

If I Only Had A Heart

Fig. 1. Paris Bordon - Venus, Mars, and Cupid Crowned by Victory, c. 1550

'Laetitia

circonscrire/to circumscribe

To reduce his wretchedness, the subject pins his hope on a method of control which permits him to circumscribe the pleasures afforded by the amorous relation: on the one hand, to keep these pleasures, to take full advantage of them, and on the other hand, to place within a parenthesis of the unthinkable those broad depressive zones which separate such pleasures: "to forget" the loved being outside of the pleasures that being bestows.'

Roland Barthes (A Lover's Discourse)

Your Ears Will Orgasm #11: LOVE (MixPod Player)

1. Cat Power - I Found A Reason
2. The Brunettes - Mars Loves Venus
3. Ladytron - The Way That I Found You
4. Virginie Leydoyen - Mon Amour, Mon Ami
5. Catatonia - Mulder and Scully
6. Sinéad O'Connor - The Singing Bird
7. Feist - Feel It All
8. Beth Orton - I Love How You Love Me
9. Björk - All Is Full Of Love
10. Ute Lemper - Tango Ballad
11. Color Filter - Satellite Of Love
12. Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep

Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle

Fig. 1. Philip Guston - Painting, Smoking, Eating, 1972-3

'Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end, it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.'

Philip Guston

Your Ears Will Orgasm #10: Relatively New (MixPod Player)

1. Goldfrapp - A&E
2. The Ting Tings - Be The One
3. Vampire Weekend - Everywhere
4. Feist - Sea Lion Woman
5. Deerhoof - The Tears And Music Of Love
6. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor