1. 19 May



     

    …The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe ׀ of a finger-nail held to the candle…
    …Or paring of paradisaïcal fruit, ׀ lovely in waning but lustreless…
    …Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow…
    …a fluke yet fanged him, ׀ entangled him, not quit utterly…
    …Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, ׀ eyelid and eyelid of slumber.
    […]
    from hopkins moonrise

     

  2. 15 May



    so its definitely the flu.

    i just read this: 
    The curtain undulated. With the opium inhaled from a makeshift porcelain-and-bamboo pipe crafted laboriously by Selz, it wasn’t long before the town, seen through the curtain, became a film of moving tissue, wrapping itself around Selz and Benjamin and at the same time unwrapping Ibiza, “We are curtainologists,” added Benjamin, to who it seemed as if the curtains had become interpreters for the language of the wind. Not the wind - but the language of the wind.
    the panels will undulate, maybe not rolling but it could fold over itself at the bottom should i leave the swathes longer. i liked your thoughts on the curtain and agree that it is a painting that could become something else and therefore might avoid being so defined by that window. i wish the window opened. i think the silk will move by contact of the air of bodies. i have been hanging tests above the sliding door to the balcony and it is nice to see it move. it reminds me of the time i got high with ada and ben, we lay in her bed and watched the wind move the curtain, like the establishing shot of the white curtain waving in the breeze in visconti’s giaccopardo. only we were lying with our heads tilted up, watching the sun over the i set into a column.
    a swatch is in the dyebath now, waiting to come out. in my flu haze i didn t realize the resist i m using washes out with water - duh - i need to use a wax for immersion dying….at any rate i will paint over the dyed black with black paint - black on black, charcoal tongue. 
     

  3. 9 May


    Figure 1. Jenny Kee (left) and Linda Jackson (right) in front of Sonia Delaunay’s Prisme Electrique (1914), Pompidou Centre, Paris, October 1977.

    Figure 1. Jenny Kee (left) and Linda Jackson (right) in front of Sonia Delaunay’s Prisme Electrique (1914), Pompidou Centre, Paris, October 1977.

     

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  5. 30 Apr


    by mallarme, published in 1883 caught by the sad perfume, the grieving moon, the eyes on stones, and vapourous flowers

    by mallarme, published in 1883

    caught by the sad perfume, the grieving moon, the eyes on stones, and vapourous flowers

     

  6. 30 Apr


    flasd: Feuillet, Origin of Eighteenth-Century Dance Notation or Choreography

    flasd:

    Feuillet, Origin of Eighteenth-Century Dance Notation or Choreography

     

  7. 8 Apr


     

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  9. 10 Mar


    The pupil is not bare. It is a network of black canals which are most commonly arranged in three areas, three triangles. - Michaux, The Parpue There are so many animals, so many plants, so many minerals. And I have already been everything so many times. But these experiments don’t help me. Becoming ammonium hydrocholrate again for the thirty-second time, I still have a tendency to behave like arsenic, and, changed once more into a dog, my night-bird habits always show up. - Michaux, And More Changes Still

    The pupil is not bare. It is a network of black canals which are most commonly arranged in three areas, three triangles.

    - Michaux, The Parpue

    There are so many animals, so many plants, so many minerals. And I have already been everything so many times. But these experiments don’t help me. Becoming ammonium hydrocholrate again for the thirty-second time, I still have a tendency to behave like arsenic, and, changed once more into a dog, my night-bird habits always show up.

    - Michaux, And More Changes Still

     

  10. 22 Feb


    (A transition into ancient perfume bottles and a Bee Fountain. Originally from a book on Scallop motifs that I left behind in Guelph. Tore out these images and a few others. For example, of live scallops swimming and a composition with shells by Miro).

     

  11. 22 Feb


    “Four scent bottles in the shape of a bow-tie made by Baccarat for Guerlain of Pairs. They contained a perfume called Dawamesk. It is typical of the period that a masculine design was used for an essentially feminine object. The pyjama suit or an exact copy of a man’s dinner jacket was fashionable evening wear for the flapper and this takeover of masculine fashion even found its way into toilet accessories. During the ‘twenties packaging received almost as much attention as the merchandise, especially where cosmetics and perfume were concerned. Baccarat, Lalique (who designed for Coty) and Sabino are a few of the most famous glass makers who designed scent bottles, probably causing the bottle to cost as much as the scent itself.” Above the bow tie bottles is hand-printed silk, colours inspired by the Ballet Russes reminiscent at a glance to Delaunay.

    “Four scent bottles in the shape of a bow-tie made by Baccarat for Guerlain of Pairs. They contained a perfume called Dawamesk. It is typical of the period that a masculine design was used for an essentially feminine object. The pyjama suit or an exact copy of a man’s dinner jacket was fashionable evening wear for the flapper and this takeover of masculine fashion even found its way into toilet accessories. During the ‘twenties packaging received almost as much attention as the merchandise, especially where cosmetics and perfume were concerned. Baccarat, Lalique (who designed for Coty) and Sabino are a few of the most famous glass makers who designed scent bottles, probably causing the bottle to cost as much as the scent itself.”

    Above the bow tie bottles is hand-printed silk, colours inspired by the Ballet Russes reminiscent at a glance to Delaunay.

     

  12. 22 Feb


    A French bronze and ivory figure of a girl dancing and holding a silver ball, signed “Lip”. A chryselephantine sculpture (sculpture in ivory and precious metals) was one of the most popular ornaments in a ‘modern’ drawing room of the ‘twenties and ‘thirties. The base was usually elegantly shaped in different coloured marbles or in onyx.

    A French bronze and ivory figure of a girl dancing and holding a silver ball, signed “Lip”.

    A chryselephantine sculpture (sculpture in ivory and precious metals) was one of the most popular ornaments in a ‘modern’ drawing room of the ‘twenties and ‘thirties. The base was usually elegantly shaped in different coloured marbles or in onyx.

     

  13. 22 Feb


    Novelty necklaces made from “ordinary common or garden tap washers with big marble-like beads in any gay colour as a contrast - whoever could guess - ? to the most sophisticated Bauhaus-inspired all-aluminum jewellery. It was a comparative novelty that all this jewellery was unashamedly ‘false’.” The dancing figure from which the necklaces are hung is by the Austrian sculptor Lorenzl.

    Novelty necklaces made from “ordinary common or garden tap washers with big marble-like beads in any gay colour as a contrast - whoever could guess - ? to the most sophisticated Bauhaus-inspired all-aluminum jewellery. It was a comparative novelty that all this jewellery was unashamedly ‘false’.” The dancing figure from which the necklaces are hung is by the Austrian sculptor Lorenzl.

     

  14. 22 Feb


    The woman’s lounge on the first mezzanine at Radio City Music Hall, New York. The painted wall decorations are by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. 

     

  15. 22 Feb


    Polished chromium hat stand made for the Italian firm of Bazzi in Milan. Chromium became popular for all sorts of furniture an fittings in the twenties. 

    Polished chromium hat stand made for the Italian firm of Bazzi in Milan. Chromium became popular for all sorts of furniture an fittings in the twenties.