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when dancing, lost in techo trance, arms flailing, gawky Bez, then find you snagged on frowns, and slowly it dawns, you’re jazzing to the bleep tone of a life support machine that marks the steady fading of your day old baby daughter. and when midnight sirens lead to blue flash road mash, stretchers, covered heads and slippy red macadam, and find you creeping ‘neath the blankets, to snuggle close a mangle bird, hoping soon you too will be freezer drawered. then welcome.
In Jam.
The intro’s on Jam are bloody creepy.
René Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928, oil on canvas (via MoMA | The Collection | René Magritte. The False Mirror. Le Perreux-sur-Marne, 1928)
This panel shows Andre Breton distributing a pamphlet titled ‘Le Creeper’ (the format of this fictional pamphlet is probably derived from that of ‘La Revolution Surrealiste’).
Comic set in the surrealist movement. I just might check this out.
Max Ernst, La clé des chants 1 (The Key of Songs 1), from Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness)
Carrier of Wounds
Drawing with a lead-pencil and kneaded eraser. A3-format. 2012
Commissioned and sold!
Now perhaps I can make sense of that “Freud in a strait-jacket“-doodle.
Sunday Dalí: Unsatisfied Desires, 1928. Oil, seashells, and sand on cardboard, 76 x 62 cm. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Dalí turns his fragmented and distorted bodies into anatomies of desire. In Unsatisfied Desires, rather than depicting a passively voluptuous nude, he presents active, if abstracted, bodies, engaged in a sexual encounter but at a distance. Two pink anatomical forms, disturbing lumps of erect flesh, confront each other on an empty beach, which is literally represented with sand, little pebbles, and shells.1
Dawn Ades, Dalí, (Venice: Rizzoli, 2004), 94. ↩
Jan Svankmajer - Frontispiece to Baradla Cave, novel by the Czech Surrealist Eva Svankmajerová, 2000
Max Ernst, Ambiguous Figures (1 copper plate, 1 zinc plate, 1 rubber cloth…), c. 1919
Dorothea Tanning
Guardian Angels
Dorothea Tanning passed yesterday at the age of 101. She was among my favorite surrealist artists, and this is my favorite painting of hers.