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Mirror Stage

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 17, 2018
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Mirror Stage, 2012
Ilit Azoulay
Inkjet print

In Mirror Stage, Ilit Azoulay combines images of a building taken at various angles and vantage points to create a new, digitally fabricated interior.  The panorama is part of her series Imaginary Order (2008-2017).  The project focused on the renovation of a well-known Brutalist-style building in the Israeli town of Zichron Ya'Akov.  The artist photographed the structure over the course of seven years as it was transformed from a convalescent home into an art center and luxury hotel.  The building's shift in function paralleled socio-political changes as Israel moved away from socialism to a capitalist economic model.  Azoulay's re-creation merges elements of past, present, and future, to fabricate a never-to-be realized photographic plan.

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On Marriage

Posted by Maverick ~ on August 9, 2018
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You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

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Kahlil Gibran – On Marriage

 

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Posted by Maverick ~ on February 19, 2018
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Reproduction of
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso
Spanish (1881-1973)

Considered one of the most famous works of art from the 20th century.  Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks a radical break from traditional European painting.  Within a compressed space, five nude women appear to project from the picture’s surface.  Their bodies are composed of flat, fractured planes, while their faces are inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks.  This work signals a revolution in Picasso’s style and established him as the leader of the Parisian avant-garde.  Les Demoiselles dAvignon was painted in France and completed in the summer of 1907. A seminal work in the development of Cubism, Picassos eye-catching depiction of five prostitutes in a brothel revolutionized the art world. ◽️

The Entombment of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Posted by Maverick ~ on November 18, 2017
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The Entombment of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1636/1637
Francisco de Zurbarán
Spanish, 1598-1664

Saint Catherine was a 4th-century princess of Alexandria who vowed to devote her life to God and was martyred for refusing to marry the Emperor Maxentius. After torture by fire, she was condemned to death on a spiked wheel, shown in the painting's right foreground. When Catherine touched the wheel, it miraculously fell apart, and so she was beheaded. Zurbarán depicts the deceased saint being lifted by angels who will transport her to the top of Mount Sinai, her burial place. Typically Baroque, the action of the painting nearly spills into our own space, and its deep shadows reflect the widespread influence, in this instance extending beyond Italy into Spain, of Caravaggio.

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Flowers for Hitler ~ The Suit

Posted by Maverick ~ on November 28, 2016
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The Suit
Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler

I am locked in a very expensive suit

old elegant and enduring 

Only my hair has been able to get free 

but someone has been leaving 
their dandruff in it 

Now I will tell you

all there is to know about optimism 

Each day in hub cap mirror

in soup reflection 

in other people’s spectacles 

I check my hair

for an army of alpinists 

for Indian rope trick masters 

for tangled aviators

for dove and albatross

for insect suicides

for abominable snowmen 

I check my hair
for aerialists of every kind 

Dedicated as an automatic elevator

I comb my hair for possibilities 

I stick my neck out 

I lean illegally from locomotive windows 

and only for the barber

do I wear a hat

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Anthem ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 23, 2016
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Anthem
Leonard Cohen

The birds, they sang
At the break of day
Start again, I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what has passed away
Or what is yet to be.

Yeah, the wars
They will be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold and bought again
The dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.