colouredGreenCandle7bdiaryperfumed7abridged and revised
GREEN artistic subject? Gas?
Some basic questions … Attitude to object? No object is good.
Colour concept? Symmetrical Goethe (6)…
John’s ‘Green’ harboured something unspoken or unspeakable
(Poe?) … It operated in an ambiguous in between place … Subjective?… Could it be spoken to indirectly? Why not?…
Should we ignore literal references to light and specific colour or not?
Without argument, the colour word green was given to the project project
(I would have needed an elaborate distancing system to make that decision). Numbers are good
green numb
punctum number Seven
NUMBER 7 7Z
Number What? Zero is a good number.
Seven colour spectrum? Of light?
A simple thing? … G for green is 7th letter of alphabet.
7 like Dice?
Chance is not subjective? 13 like Motorcycle
… My response has been to see what sort of associations these unspecifics will make.
a procedure which could be endlessly productive. The reciprocal collaborative process … Call and Response
… is open ended and capable of generating lots of words … in advance of possible visual products ( and as a consequence of them too)
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WORD (at least in this correspondence context; and as a catalytic function … but here also a way of generating research ( without a proposition?).
Literary associations? Languages?
Esperanto – verdo, French – vert, … midori ?
.vertical, vertigo, verticil (coil), vertebrae, v(i)rtual? vV(i)rtue?
… applauding elves endowed her with supernatural virtues.
Raymond Roussel
… French Connection? Absinthe and Crème de Menthe …MD’s GREEN BOX
(note fragments etc)
“By My Green Candle!”
is a typical exclamation of Alfred Jarry’s Pa Ubu character...
EXTRO, INTRO, ADvert, INvert, REvert, SUBvert, CONvert, DIvert, PERvert, PREvert?
A wooden green guitar rocking the infancy of art
A railroad ticket with all its baggage.
Jacques Prévert
from the poem called Picasso’s Magic Lantern (in Paroles)
And Voodoo?
and St Patrick … ( ) spiral irish device
Dan Bala Wedo. Eggs, trees, water … intertwined serpents
Gran Bwa – asymmetry (and grid … crossroads? Rorschach?) half man half tree, St Sebastian …
herbal remedies … verdant colours. robhood
Will Tell? ( Arrow and little green apple thing?)
English? Interiority, John? Green light as signal of aspiration?
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.
Coleridge – from Ode to Dejection
Procede/GO
Green Onions?
The only one I could find in Beckett, Russell … from Happy Days -
Ah well…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)
I understand beechen green is a parasitic fern that grows on the roots of the beech treebeech tree.
Green beach? Something growing?
In Derek Jarman’s film, Wittgenstein’s friend is the Little Green Martian…
( the actor was Nahil Shaban)
Mythology… the Green Man is usually represented as a face (camouflaged?) peering through the foliage from caves and forest?
F forest spirits are common in many cultures…
So are pubs …
Dylan Thomas died in one called the White Horse…… (NYC, 11th and Hudson), after getting intoxicated (1) by much alcohol the fuel, the life force that creates …also annihilates …
Here the fuel, the life force that creates… also annihilates…
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green rage; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer
Chlorophyll? A different way to look at colour?
English Pubs The Green Man …
Kingsley Amis novel. Set in GMan. mumble…movie with Alistair Sims
JB remembered a scene in which small pieces of metal are being thrown?
Recent song by The Fall … reprobate Mark E. Smith is sadly our age, John …
(from Imperial Wax Solvent cd)
I go round a hotel
I see “Throw the Towel on the Floor”
In the Green Man
I throw the towel on the floor and I piss in it
I’m a 50 year old man and I like it.
This casts the Green Candle in an acrid light …but maybe it’s true to Jarry’s perverse Ubu character … The flame of illumination becomes a stream of green piss (?)
Micturation (Taking the Micky?) and Oxidation come to mind …
Waste? Chemistry? Copper?.............................................
watched documentary about making of White pigment from Lead, that involved urine oxidation. JB and Lead… a dirty job but…
Base material… (Bataille’s Informé… strategy for challenging authority?)
Profane and Sacred ( or protection from X-rays?)… Green d’Or?
Green and Alchemy?
Lead into Gold ……. II dDealeal lyly… I IDyll y
The Toad is Gold
The Lion is Green
From The Same, John!
(Klossowski) will check another time…
Green Lion eats Sol … Sol is Sulphur …Green Lion blood is Mercury …
Green midway? state … Primordial swamp? Pea soup?
The Root of all Things is Green…
Unripe but ready for Progress
A Arab Alchemist Haly (15C?)
Progress implies teleology. Transmutation suggests an unattainable ideal …
this is about process …Procede?
Procedure might be the object,
(rather than expectation?)
On WAX is another story
JB’s Verdegris?
Cupric acetate. It forms in the atmosphere of copper. From the French ‘vert-de-gris’ …
Green of grey? ‘Barbe grise’ is ‘grey beard’ … …
Same as for beard on skin…verdigris growing on oxidizing copper?
surface
Gris – in the feminine – means intoxicated (2)
Or Gris- Gris > Grey- Grey?
(Dr John) NKISIcharm
I believe that Gris-Gris is a hex, or maybe a Voodoo love charm,
left on the doorstep
… a small mojo bag … It might contain perfumed herbs and legal text.
( Jarry-ism would have called gris-gris is a ‘monosyllabic tautology’ (like Ha-Ha).
One of the herbs used in Gris Gris is called “John the Conqueror”.
Green Dictionary French Beards
… barbier, barbon, John! UBU BARBU!
Se barbouiller – to dirty one’s face.
A barbouilleur - a dauber! To smear or blur (in printing) .
A VeryVery Bad Artist!
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