Since we're talking about strange dreams...
the other day i was looking out on the Thames, near a bridge (think it was Blackfriars) and this huge wave was bubbling up just like in the picture above, but more circular in its movements. and as the waves silently fell and rose i gradually saw that that the water was actually full of sparkling rubbish-and it was incredibly beautiful, poetic, even. further down, the water had frozen over and people were sifting through russian fur coats and other stuff. nothing was wasted, if I recollect correctly.
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Iris M:
stages of emancipation..seeing corresponds to objects with different degrees of reality and different levels of awareness, seeing by different parts of the soul...
K. Clark:
intuition and intellect:
'+' 'withdrawal into that hortus conclusus of the spirit'
'+' mystical unity.
'Nearly all the painters who have grown greater in old age have retained an astonishing vitality of touch. As their handling has grown freer, so the strokes of the brush developed an independent life'
'There is nothing more mysterious than the power of an aged artists to give life to a blot or a scribble'
'Then they began their furious battle with time, not staining, but scarring the white canvas of eternity'
'Beethoven's late quartets are classic examples of the old-age style in their freedom from established forms and their mixture of remoteness and urgent personal appeal'
they have arrested the moment when the body and soul fall asunder (Eliot), caught enough of the body to make the moment comprehensible, and seen how it is disintegration reveals the soul'
All I have produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account. At seventy-three I have learned a little about the real structure of nature, of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects. In consequence when I am eighty, I shall have made still more progress. At ninety I shall penetrate the mystery of things; at one hundred I shall certainly have reached a marvelous stage; and when I am a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive.
---Hokusai.
6 comments:
this Hokusai quote is extraordinary, where did you find it?
ah, they had such a different image of Time, those people, they really lived in a different time, and not only historically. i remember another post of yours these past days, about not being able to stop, get out of the frenzy around us and really immerse oneself in whatever one does that precise moment, be it reading or listening to music...
hi, b :-)
hello, R.
from 'moments of vision' (by K. Clark...a very interesting book, btw)
It's from a chapter where he talks about the 'late style'.
on time and the japanese: there's fantastic article by rowan moore on the architect of the twin towers and how that relates to older, more traditional perspectives (it's in prospect magazine..if i find a link I'll post it).
immerse oneself?! gosh, that doesn't sound like me [unless i was talking about attacking a c.r. ! :-) ]
did i say hello, already?:-0
b.
don't make me search for it, you said that :-P (about reading, music, films)
do send me that link, please...
hi back :-)
your wish is my command, o master...
try this
incredible what you can find when you search on the net! but not "it", unfortunately.:-)
take care,
b.
gotto run, not prepared [as bloody usual! :-) ]
So glad you posted the link to Prospect...says the cyber eavesdropper :) Fascinating. Hi you two :) I bring more cr's next time.
hey, what do you mean by "more"?!
...I didn't get any! have you two been upto something behind my back, I wonder :-)
cheap?! :-)
"I'm just a poor boy from a poor family..."
okay, okay..just to help u out:
"bismillah...."
glad u liked the article.
must run now. u've guessed: the usual problem ..lecture!
salaams,
b.
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