The Sunday Six: Part Two (Relatively Eclectic)

Fig. 1. Ivan Moudov - Fragments, 2003 - 2004

Fig. 2. Raymond Pettibon - No title (I've often lamented), 2004

Fig. 3. Bill Viola - Without A Shore (still), 2007

Fig. 4. Johanna Calle - Tejido Foliar (detail), 2008

Fig. 5. Phillip Adams (choreographer) - Axeman's Lullaby, 2008 (photo by Jeff Busby)

Fig. 6. Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Parts of a Film with Rat and a Bear, 2008.

'Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.'

Henri Bergson

A Book Is A Portable Treasury Of Paper Tongues

Fig. 1. Exhibition Preview Card, 2008 (Arnolfini)

'Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.'

Samuel Johnson

Your Ears Will Orgasm #13: These Pleasant Machines (MixPod Player)

1. Little Richard - Rip It Up
2. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
3. Blondie - Rapture
4. David Byrne & Brian Eno - I Feel My Stuff
5. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
6. Goldfrapp - Happiness

Love Wisely, And Not Too Well

Fig. 1. Alexandre-Marie Colin - Othello and Desdemona, 1829


'Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,
To follow still the changes of the moon
With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt,
Is once to be resolved.'

William Shakespeare - Othello (Act III, Scene iii)

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