Morandi’s switch from the clean opacity of Surrealism to his subsequent translucent and illusive impressions speaks to me about the inconstancy of time and ones own changing sense of it.
Tag: Thoughts
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon at the Met Hockney says time and space can’t exist well together in the same 2D surface – how does that relate to Francis Bacon’s works? Does Bacon’s flattening-out equal the inclusion of time as a formal element? Or is time merely implied conceptually through the literal device of multiplication or blurring in …
Francis Bacon, Proust and Painting
I wake at night and sense myself to be a knot of flesh, privileging one leg over the other – twisted and stuck out of the bedclothes. Another day and I sit in the park. The people on the grass nearby: asymmetrical and balanced on an elbow or pinning under a leg, seem to grow from the green like great fleshy blossoms, spring-pale and strangely foreshortened.
Ensor on a Rainy Sunday
Outside it rains – with eyes attuned to greys I see the Ensor paintings at MOMA more clearly. And I think that Ostend must be a city of fogs for Ensor to know so well what colors would sing on a day such as today.
Iris
Today the iris on the windowsill bloomed White and violet and the petals Shriveling back toward green daggers as the sun reflects a second dawn from the windows across the street A trip to the Ironbound, Oranges lined up on the counter small to large, each scrawled with text Honey tangerine Small navel …
Rabbit Ole’
2/9/05 Here is dinner In valentine hues: Precooked Red wine White beans Pink Bunny Carrots Cassoulet And I am listening to Xanadu Electric Light Orchestra Olivia Newton… There is a primrose on the table: Pink edging on magenta Yellow centered And leaves greengreengreen.
Eyre and Electricity
Eyre and electricity 1/24 Today I could see my breath inside as well as out. The power back on I huddle waiting for warmth. The sink is frozen, the still life is frozen, the air is sharp, my fingers numb starting at the pinky working in. so much for a willed productive morning. I will …