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It’s Halloween, everybody: Mirrors and Masks

Posted in art, Drawing, Ink, tagged , , , , , on October 31, 2011| 2 Comments »

Ink on Miquelrius paper. October 2011.

Halloween: A day of rest for those who wear a mask all the time.

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Strangers | The Poetry of Arab Women

Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Photography, photography, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »

October 2011

Strangers

by Huda Ablan

 

1.

No one belongs to the path

except a pocket

stuffed with the leaves of the night.

It keeps steps in stock

from a shop at the crossroads of the will,

patched with the skin of an old dream.

When yawning,

it invites them to a dance

with few feet and much madness.

When hungry,

it devours their warm, ripe whispers.

When thirsty,

it drinks their cries washed with holy water.

When lonely,

it forsakes its lenght and shrinks

to a remote corner of the heart

leafing through pictures of those

who have passed away

ensnaring with their song…

It will cast glances,

and tremble with the silence.



2.

No one belongs to the rose

except its melting

in the hand of a sad lover

who plucks it from slumber

every morning

and plants it in the vase of a tear

overflowing with pain.

He teaches how love sings

and how to breathe the secret

hiding behind the eyes

so it may reveal itself

without words.



3.

No one belongs to the heart.

Immersed in opening its chambers–

Shut tight with red forgetfulness–

It stirs the beats of a love

over which a curtain has been drawn

for a thousand nights,

and shakes a cup of blood

freezing as it faces circulation.

It alone

stabs the rug of a wound

made ready for crying

and prays

facing death.



4.

There is no one in the house

is dozing cracks obscure

the rounded journey of a small sun.

In the enclosure of the spirit

its walls bend in the face

of blows from the winds.

Its warmth ages and shrinks

in the coldness of waiting.

With the eyes of the absent

it soaks up warm places that flow

at the very edge of the passage

and melts in the shudder

of an endless beckoning.

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Sketching at Bassam on a Friday Night

Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Drawing, Ink, tagged , , , , , , on October 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Ink and Graphite on Paper. October 2011

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Three Cups

Posted in art, photography, tagged , , , , on October 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Three Cups. Summer 2011.

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Mending Walls

Posted in art, Collage, Drawing, Ink, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Namaste. Ink on paper, digital manipulation. October 2011.

MENDING WALL

Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs.  The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side.  It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors?  Isn't it
Where there are cows?  But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.'  I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself.  I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Posted in art, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Film, Paris Diaries, Photography, photography, tagged , , , , , , on October 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Image via deliglam.com. Click for more.

Scenes from Parapluies de Cherbourg

Thank you Dianna.

Here's to us (Paris is a state of mind) . October 2011.

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New Jewelry Design: ‘Three Talismans | Nodes’ necklace

Posted in Architecture, art, Design, Experiments, Jewelry, Jewelry and Accessory Design, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2011| 2 Comments »

Three Talismans|Nodes necklace by Archist Design Studio © . I used Industrial Chic spacers.

A talisman (from Arabic طلسم Tilasm, ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek word “telein” which means “to initiate into the mysteries”) is an amulet or other object considered to possess supernatural or magical powers. (thankyou wiki.)

Each spacer/bolt has the word intre·pidi·ty embedded on it.

Susan Lenart Kazmer, of Industrial chic ,gives us this definition of a talisman:

tal·is·man \ˈtælɪzmən\: objects worn to bring specific qualities into your life, such as strength, happiness and protection.

She considers herself a “contemporary builder of talismans utilizing objects of her own culture”. As soon as I saw her rugged and evocative spacers I was immediately inspired to create an industrial/architectural piece.

 

 

A pretty package containing rugged things.

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The Rose of Versailles

Posted in Architecture, art, Collage, Digital Collage, Paris Diaries, Photography, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Digital Collage. October 2011.

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Orsetto

Posted in art, Calabria Diaries, Drawing, Ink, tagged , , , on October 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Orsetto. Ink on Miquelrius paper. October 2011.

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View from the Seine

Posted in Architecture, art, Paris Diaries, Photography, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2011| 2 Comments »

Lanternes et Notredame. Paris. 2011

 

To walk in Paris is to behold, and be part of, a living and continuously changing painting.

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Le Petit Palais

Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Drawing, Ink, Paris Diaries, Photography, photography, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Ink on hand.book paper. Paris, 2011.

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A Poem for October

Posted in art,poetry,writing on October 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Consume Me. Paris. 2011

October

By Frederick Seidel

 

It is time to lose your life,
Even if it isn’t over.
It is time to say goodbye and try to die.
It is October.

The mellow cello
Allee of trees is almost lost in sweetness and mist
When you take off your watch at sunrise
To lose your life.

You catch the plane.
You land again.
You arrive in the place.
You speak the language.

You will live in a new house,
Even if it is old.
You will live with a new wife,
Even if she is too young.

Your slender new husband will love you.
He will walk the dog in the cold.
He will cook a meal on the stove.
He will bring you your medication in bed.

Dawn at the city flower market downtown.
The vendors have just opened.
The flowers are so fresh.
The restaurants are there to decorate their tables.

Your husband rollerblades past, whizzing,
Making a whirring sound, winged like an angel–
But stops and spins around and skates back
To buy some cut flowers in the early morning frost.

I am buying them for you.
I am buying them for your blond hair at dawn.
I am buying them for your beautiful breasts.
I am buying them for your beautiful heart.

 

Reblogged from here

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Paris Diaries: Cafe De Flore, Quartier Latin

Posted in art, Poetry, Writing on October 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Ink and watercolor on watercolor paper. October 2011.

The birthplace of Existentialism.

 

Les chemins de la Liberte’ passent par le Flore.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Paris Diaries: Le Quai de la Seine et St. Michel

Posted in art, Poetry, Writing on October 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Ink on paper. Paris 2011

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Books for the Parisian Flaneur

Posted in art, Poetry, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2011| 6 Comments »

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For many travelers, Paris is Parisland. Here’s the Eiffel Tower. Let’s take aboat ride along the Seine. Ah, the Champs Elysees. Five museums on the list —
let’s whip through them. And, late at night, we’ve got to find that nightclub where the girls kick up their …heels.

Others — that’s my brood and me — go to Paris for the quiet. We sit in cafes for hours. We settle on parkbenches. We take long walks on nearly empty streets. It’s still Parisland, just another kind: an open-air library, a set for dreaming, an urban pillow for outdoor naps.

From a review of Quiet Corners of Paris

Here is a curated list for the flaneur/flaneuse to pack on your messenger bag.

And here, more on the The Flâneur: A Radical-Chic Icon

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Love and the Sea

Posted in Architecture, art, Digital Collage, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Writing, tagged , , , , on October 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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“Inside a lover’s heart there’s another world, and yet another.”

        Love

        rests on no foundation.

        It is an endless ocean,

        with no beginning or end.

        Imagine,

        a suspended ocean,

        riding on a cushion of   

        ancient secrets.

        All souls have drowned in it,

       and now dwell there.

        One drop of that ocean is

        hope,

        and the rest is

        fear.

        Rumi

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