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07 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Giorgio Caproni, Jorge Luis Borges

2020-10-07 at 4:12 am

What do you want me to ask.
Leave me in my dark. Just this one.
Let me see.
Giorgio Caproni, Instance of the same

If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said, a pure time for the mind to rest and heal, why, when they suddenly wake you, do you feel that they have stolen everything you had? Why is it so sad to be awake at dawn? It strips us of a gift so strange, so deep, it can be remembered only in half-sleep, moments of drowsiness that gild and adorn. The waking mind with dreams, which may well be but broken images of the night’s treasure, a timeless world that has no name or measure and breaks up in the mirrors of the day. Who will you be tonight, in the dark thrall of sleep, when you have slipped across its wall? Jorge Luis Borges

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Autumn Sonata

29 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Else Lasker-Schüler

Golden doves Rest on your cheeks.
But your heart is a whirling wind And your blood like my blood rustles
Sweetly By the raspberry bushes.
My thoughts run rings around you, Just ask the night –
No-one can play As I do with your hands,
Build castles as I do With golden fingers,
Fortresses with high towers: Then we play at robbers on the beach.
Splendour fills my being When you arrive.
And when you press me close to you I can see your heart starring.
Your entrails Are scintillating lizards.
You are of a gold, a gold so deep That all lips hold their breath.

Else Lasker-Schüler

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Kippur 5781-א

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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Kippur 5781

A smell from which all memory constructs itself.

כְּתַפּ֨וּחַ֙ בַּֽעֲצֵ֣י הַיַּ֔עַר כֵּ֥ן דּוֹדִ֖י בֵּ֣ין הַבָּנִ֑ים בְּצִלּוֹ֙ חִמַּ֣דְתִּי וְיָשַׁ֔בְתִּי וּפִרְי֖וֹ מָת֥וֹק לְחִכִּֽי

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Marriage of things

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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Walter Benjamin

Free me from the time from which you have passed and absolve me from within your presence. Like red roses in the hours of twilight draw back from the faded marriage of things.

Walter Benjamin

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Become better

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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Elias Canetti

I want to become tolerant, without neglecting anything: I wish I didn’t persecute anyone, even if everyone persecutes me; become better, without realizing it, become sadder, but willingly live; become more peaceful, be happy in others; not belonging to anyone, grow in everyone ; loving the best, console the worst: hating no more, not even myself.

Elias Canetti, The Clipboard, 1942-1972 (from The Man Province)

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Appearing in Howe sound Baie

10 Thursday Sep 2020

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Howe sound baie

My love, it doesn’t matter that I was born: you become visible in the place where I disappear. René Char

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Flying DHC-2 Beaver

08 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Aviation

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Tarn like a smile

04 Friday Sep 2020

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Susan Sontag

I understand. I understand why most people regard their dreams as of little importance. They are too light for them, and most people identify the serious with what has weight. Tears are serious; one can collect them in a jar. But a dream, like a smile, is pure air. Dreams, like smiles, fade quickly. But what if they dissolve their face and smiles remain?

Susan Sontag, ′′ The Benefactor ′′ (1963)

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Sculptural organization

03 Thursday Sep 2020

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Pierres Soulages

Serie one : the weight of things
Serie two : your room has always a view
Serie 3: sound migration/ amplification/ distortion

The idea was to spend 4 min per object and create 3 series of 10 sculptures that tell a story with a continuous and spontaneous thread. It does not leave time for thinking, you have to create order within your own chaos as said Pierre Soulages: “ we are always being stalked by two things that are equally dangerous : order and disorder. Order can be sterile. Disorder productive. And vis versa. I like works which allow me to construct myself. And which construct me. Rilke said something I admire:”it submerges us. We organize it. But it falls to pieces. We organize it again and we ourselves fall to pieces”. “

You carry it until you merge
Perspective from massive surfaces

3 shadows behind your phonograph

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Trumpet dialogue

31 Monday Aug 2020

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Trumpet

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