MERZ

We went to visit the once handled objects of Kurt Schwitters, psychically in tune, there are no words to describe my fascination. 

Close-up of Construction for Noble Ladies, 1919

Prajwal in the Valley

Alchemical Newton

It does not surprise me to learn that in addition to identifying the laws of motion, Newton had experimented in alchemy. Now glowing gold, every sunset in the city of angels, his statue stands atop a mountain adjacent to the sky.

Fountain Reflections: Part I

My Fountain embroidery; it reminds me of the Chinese New Year.

My Fountain article on Artmiami.tv:

http://artmiami.tv/articles-2/preview-fountain-miami/

The following paragraph is from Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present by Roselee Goldberg, published in 1978.

The Art of Ideas

"The year 1968 prematurely marked the beginning of the decade of the seventies. In that year political events severely unsettled cultural and social life throughout Europe and the U.S. The mood was one of irritation and anger with prevailing values and structures. Students and workers shouted slogans and erected street barricades in protest against 'the establishment'. Many younger artists approached the institution of art with equal, if less violent, disdain. They questioned and accepted premises of art and attempted to re-define its meaning and function. Moreover, artists took it upon themselves to express these new directions in lengthy texts, rather than leave that responsibility to the mediator, the art critic. The gallery was attacked as an institution of commercialism and other outlets sought for communicating ideas to the public. On a personal level, it was a time when each artist re-evaluated his or her own intentions for making art, and when each action was to be seen as part of an overall investigation of art processes and not, paradoxically, as an appeal for popular acceptance." 

Love from Isha Upanishat

May your new year be content, joyous and filled with wonder, contemplation, discovery, invention and truth.

A poem for anger

i am lost at sea inescapable

you brought me here to this world, and I will not question why you are mad 

I will question why you are repressed and unbalanced

Isha Upanishat helps me through it all;

Beautiful #38, I love you so much.

My first interview, from an international fashion and arts magazine based on the web:

ATLAS — DREAMS

A surrealist. . .

Thanx to the Saatchi Gallery for sharing this quote. . .

"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."
—Renee Magritte

The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James) 1937

Khymati is Chloe

Sweet, like Thich Nhat Hahn

taught me to care for my anger,

singing as I sew two skirts together

anticipating the Mayan priest 

I went to see the wise woman

she told me about the mountains in Woodstock

I closed my eyes to the sun

and thought of Rabindranath Tagore again

upon completion of Hummingbird

my gift for the Undine, dancing her slow steps

In the storm where the dialogue took place

in medieval bell speak, sounding far

Her blue owl guide and protector

Conquered by the embroidered tree

that only appears in the rain 

A reminder again, I am not I

As eyes, they do not mind

when it's time to die

Khymati is Chloe

We, as Janus, see both ways

The smile of the girl who ran down the street

and walked back, because she knew 

I was thinking of her 

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