If only ... in reality it's a paint & fabric shop in Brussels called Emery & Cie. In imagination it's the interior of a Barbara Guest poem. I've discovered how to do video on my mobile & rather like the crappy quality - I did one of the Olympics on 50 TV sets i a local showroom but in the wrong format so Blogger won't accept it.
(As I type this I am listening to Tom Raworth talking to Charles Bernstein - I like his deadpan style).
The Bacon text is a revelation - I will re-read it less greedily. Sentences explode with possibilites.
"Light is time, but space is colour" (96) - wwwwoooooowwwwww!!!!!! That's a Deleuzean sentence: packed with dynamite & dynamism.
And I want to go back and look at Bacon - my first encounter at the Tate Gallery 1980(?) one autumn morning when our entire English class was taken for a walk along the Thames, through various rooms to come face to face with the Isabel Rawsthorne portrait. "OK. Now back to class".
I can't say I liked it or really understood what Bacon was doing - but I knew something was going on and there was a reason why we were being told to look. And now - in 2008 - I know why.
Cheers
The C.
PS - loved the D&G doodle interpretations. Gnashing my teeth I didn't think of it.
2 comments:
I like these clips -- is this the Waffle homestead? You'll be vlogging before you know it!
Walrus
PS The Logic of Sensation is magnificent, isn't it? Now I have to admit that that book has inspired a poem -- a figure thrashing about on a bed...
If only ... in reality it's a paint & fabric shop in Brussels called Emery & Cie. In imagination it's the interior of a Barbara Guest poem. I've discovered how to do video on my mobile & rather like the crappy quality - I did one of the Olympics on 50 TV sets i a local showroom but in the wrong format so Blogger won't accept it.
(As I type this I am listening to Tom Raworth talking to Charles Bernstein - I like his deadpan style).
The Bacon text is a revelation - I will re-read it less greedily. Sentences explode with possibilites.
"Light is time, but space is colour" (96) - wwwwoooooowwwwww!!!!!! That's a Deleuzean sentence: packed with dynamite & dynamism.
And I want to go back and look at Bacon - my first encounter at the Tate Gallery 1980(?) one autumn morning when our entire English class was taken for a walk along the Thames, through various rooms to come face to face with the Isabel Rawsthorne portrait. "OK. Now back to class".
I can't say I liked it or really understood what Bacon was doing - but I knew something was going on and there was a reason why we were being told to look. And now - in 2008 - I know why.
Cheers
The C.
PS - loved the D&G doodle interpretations. Gnashing my teeth I didn't think of it.
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