Hi John,
I just thought these lines reminded me very much on the 'things' placed at the tables in your's and Paul's exhibition:
'7. That thing is called 'free' which exists solely by the necessity of its own nature, and is determined to action by itself alone. However, that thing is called necesarry or rather compelled which is determined by another to exist or operate in a certain and determined way.
B.Spinoza, Ethics, part one on god, p. 75 Oxford philosophical texts , tr. G.H.R.Parkinson.
best wishes, Margit
Thursday, November 13, 2008
There is so much to say and feel about this show. I find it so damn exciting, it’s something to do with the ‘feel’ of the space when one gets down into it. Everything matters, and yet doesn’t at the same time. I like this so much. There is a delicacy too, as if things might disappear quite soon, or be taken to another part of the space, sort of congregate all by themselves in a dark corner, movement without movement, a tenacious temporary landedness, like music (already over and yet only just begun), lm
GC *8 6-11-08
From
At Swim – Two Birds p 15
I am a bark for buffeting, said Finn,
I am a hound for thornypaws.
I am a doe for swiftness.
I am a tree for wind-siege.
I am a windmill.
I am a hole in a wall.
On the seat of the bog-cloth drawers to his fork was shuttled the green alchemy of mountain-leeks from Slieve an Iarainn in the middle of Erin; for it was here that he would hunt for part of the year with his people, piercing the hams of a black hog with his spears, birds-nesting, hole drawing, vanishing into the fog of a small gully, sitting on green knolls with Fergus and watching the boys at ball-throw.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Green Candle notes 3-10-08 plus
Time Travel Film?
Success and Pre-empting failure?
Burning at both ends
Lead and Balloon… lead filled balloons?
Green Candle … Green Balloon-bladder; Condom- ejaculation? It keeps coming!
Illumination and micturation? Contained … repressed urge? Sexual Toys?
‘Art films’…Recently saw series of sexually explicit short films “Destrictions” (Barney, Larry Clark, Abromovic, Taylor-Wood… and others… (We Fuck Alone!))
Spiralled candles… some light green and it’s opposite… orange-ish… (Flesh?)…some broken and repaired with metallic tape, Green balloons at both ends… inflation/deflation.
GC7c? 20-10-08
Reading Burroughs… Looking for adequate quote re aleatoric processes from cut up sense…but… GC deviation happened:
Came across group of essays apparently from his period of teaching in NYC late 70s… in ‘Adding Machine’ (86) …
The essay on ‘Creative Reading’ talks lots about characters and style in Hemingway (‘Ernie’) and Fitzgerald…This one is quoted from the ending of Gatsby:
He has come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter, tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further, and one fine morning…So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Fitzgerald’s ref to ‘the green light’ must surely be derived from the Coleridge quote I found earlier... Or could it be older? To young writers, Burroughs says that this passage ‘stays with the reader and becomes part of his inner landscape’… “commensurate with his capacity for wonder” … (last bit double quoted, is probably from Gatsby, too. Long time since I read it). It could be about ‘Time’ you mentioned other day… and for Burroughs too… time travel. (my italics)
Burroughs’ idea of ‘creative reading’ is great. On the one hand, it conforms to Barthes’ …& P-M’s ‘death of author’… (note that translated into visual art… it would be creative looking?). It also justifies JB’s refusal to respond to some questions that require a subjective and personal answer… Although not denied that there could be a personal reading… it’s beside the point.
Green Men
– Frankenstein’s monster, Jolly green, little green, Goblins
Comic strip pop…for volatile heroes - and villains: Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Hulk, etcetc
Green readings…
Though I should gaze forever
On that green light that lingers in the west:
I may not hope from outward forms to win
The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
(From Coleridge – “Dejection: an Ode”)
Green glasses (crystal)
(dark green?smoked for viewing eclipse?)
Green lenses (disk)
Green spectacles
Green telescope
Green binoculars …. . (Cylinders?)
Green view, monitor, projection
Green light, stereoscope… (Duality?) … monogram, anagram telegram
Dual…..thumbs
Twin fingers
Pair……hands
Lead/gold……. Read……Copper Plate, cup, disk, cylinder, loop
transmutation ….
(There will be an alchemy association…also will check symbolic non western)
Crystal, glass, peg,?pin?
Evergreen, sea green…. ‘Wine Red Sea’ – colour blind Homer…
Green eyes ( New Order song?)
Iris,
envy,
fungi…moss
Fruit… avocado, apple, lime
Green Thumb…gardening…Veg…, pea green, broccoli, cabbage, let us
rhizome
I could also associate this with your ‘finger casings’, John.
Green is 7… G IS SEVENTH LETTER OF ALPHABET
(In bikers’ symbology….On Hell’s Angels’ leather jackets –‘M’ or ‘13’is for Marijuana…
I still have a ‘95 green paint skin canvas, John… made with resin and marijuana leaves… on linen - titled ‘13’).
Greenwich meantime
Jungle, Garden,
Tealeaf… thief
Geography
Green Land…Ireland… Eire….Irish Sea…
Joyce knows ?– “Snot green sea” (check Ulysses?)
Beckett?.... (From Happy Days faber pb p 38) dots are sic :
“Ah well… not to know… not to know for sure… great mercy… all I ask. (pause)
Ah yes… then… now…beechen green… this… Charlie…kisses…this… all that…
…deep trouble for the mind. (pause)… but it does not trouble mine. (smile)
…Not now. (smile broader)… No, no.”
(In Chambers and Websters dictionaries - Beechen is an adjective for beech tree… European and American…smooth grey bark with green leaves… ‘Beechen’ perhaps also name of fern which feeds off the roots of beech tree)
Green Men
– Frankenstein’s monster, Jolly green, little green, Goblins
Comic strip pop…for volatile heroes - and villains: Green Hornet, Green Lantern, Hulk, etcetc
Green readings…
Though I should gaze forever
On that green light that lingers in the west:
I may not hope from outward forms to win
The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
(From Coleridge – “Dejection: an Ode”)
Green glasses (crystal)
(dark green?smoked for viewing eclipse?)
Green lenses (disk)
Green spectacles
Green telescope
Green binoculars …. . (Cylinders?)
Green view, monitor, projection
Green light, stereoscope… (Duality?) … monogram, anagram telegram
Dual…..thumbs
Twin fingers
Pair……hands
Lead/gold……. Read……Copper Plate, cup, disk, cylinder, loop
transmutation ….
(There will be an alchemy association…also will check symbolic non western)
Crystal, glass, peg,?pin?
Evergreen, sea green…. ‘Wine Red Sea’ – colour blind Homer…
Green eyes ( New Order song?)
Iris,
envy,
fungi…moss
Fruit… avocado, apple, lime
Green Thumb…gardening…Veg…, pea green, broccoli, cabbage, let us
rhizome
I could also associate this with your ‘finger casings’, John.
Green is 7… G IS SEVENTH LETTER OF ALPHABET
(In bikers’ symbology….On Hell’s Angels’ leather jackets –‘M’ or ‘13’is for Marijuana…
I still have a ‘95 green paint skin canvas, John… made with resin and marijuana leaves… on linen - titled ‘13’).
Greenwich meantime
Jungle, Garden,
Tealeaf… thief
Geography
Green Land…Ireland… Eire….Irish Sea…
Joyce knows ?– “Snot green sea” (check Ulysses?)
Beckett?.... (From Happy Days faber pb p 38) dots are sic :
“Ah well… not to know… not to know for sure… great mercy… all I ask. (pause)
Ah yes… then… now…beechen green… this… Charlie…kisses…this… all that…
…deep trouble for the mind. (pause)… but it does not trouble mine. (smile)
…Not now. (smile broader)… No, no.”
(In Chambers and Websters dictionaries - Beechen is an adjective for beech tree… European and American…smooth grey bark with green leaves… ‘Beechen’ perhaps also name of fern which feeds off the roots of beech tree)
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