what he will say about her

1. i have seen her fern-coloured eyes open mornings on a world where the beating of hope's great wings is scarcely distinct from the other sounds which are those of terror and, upon such a world, i had yet seen eyes do nothing but close.
[she can be like this because she is 'voluntarily remote from the last raft' at the moment of drowning.]

2. everything that permits us to live another's life without ever desiring to obtain more from him than he gives, so that it is quite enough to see him move or be still, speak or be silent, wake or sleep, no longer existed for me, had never existed: this was only too certain.

3.

pre-manipulation

i.e. at the moment its just point and shoot

dora maar

NYT article

weird stuff she says

1. [a fountain in the Tuileries] : "those are your thoughts and mine. look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall...and so on, indefinitely."
[where did she get that image from he exclaims, when the same idea was written in a book he just read that she couldn't possibly have seen yet].


2. "time is a tease. time is a tease - because everything has to happen in its own time".
[but during this wandering excursion he gets bored].

3.

kati horna

Barbican - The Surreal House

art event details at the Barbican in London

i'm bored of post-modernism, i hope a new era begins soon

the dustbin of art history

i miss chicago

"According to Tasset, “I hope both EYE and CARDINAL change the everyday experience for pedestrians and drivers along State Street. The image of the flying bird is quieting and humble in contrast to the commercial bustle surrounding it, while the enormous scale of the EYE serves to miniaturize its surroundings. Although EYE and CARDINAL are unique works and do not depend on each other, the two works are linked formally; by the red, white and blue color pallet as well as the repetition of the eye in the bird close up. The juxtaposition of these two archetypal images with the city of Chicago as a backdrop should create a grand surreal picture, in the spirit of Magritte and Dali.”" [excerpt from art daily]

subodh gupta

gupta's profile at the saatchi gallery



another duchamp descendant they say.


my immediate impression is a reference to a stereotype of the overwhelmed south-asian housewife. there's a dichotomist view of the woman though; the giant, shiny, metal tiffin tins and other house-hold kitchen wares bubbling over in a jewel-like studded mass indicate some sort of glamorous but subservient role to the imagined figure.

the inherent idea is something akin to those 1930s kitsch calendar girl images.

pors and rao

soren pors [danish] + aparna rao [indian]

"the uncle phone" [date 2004?], apparently "This two meter long phone was made to express the unique way that her uncle uses a regular telephone; it requires two people to operate- one to dial and another to speak." [source: a couple places on the internet that i'm not going to bother citing].

on first appearance this reminded me unequivocally of a south asian in a foreign land, recalling an immigrant's far-reaching connecting bridge to their parent nation.

there's also no denying some sort of phallic symbol analogy which i can't further explain as of yet.