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Prints on Paper page 2 of 3
Black and white digital prints on mould-made paper.
Each is shown here in low resolution on the left with a higher resolution detail on the right. To indicate the fine detail some are shown with an enlarged area below.
"Vanessa Olympia" Image size including text: width 10.1" x height 14.6" (25.59 cm x 36.98 cm) Maximum in the edition 10.
Text:
VANESSA ATALANTA Red Admiral
Range. Azores, Canary Islands, N. Africa and throughout Europe and Asia Minor to Iran. N. America to Guatemala. Haiti and New Zealand.
Flight. May to October; in S. Europe hibernated specimens appear in spring.
Habitat. Flowery banks, gardens, etc., from lowlands to 1800m. Larval food plants nettles (Urtica); more rarely thistles.
Description:
The pose is taken from Philip Wilson Steer's painting entitled "Nude." Steer's painting itself refers to Manet's Olympia, but is in mirror image. There are several love stories behind the scenes, and shifts of identity. In Greek mythology Atalanta refused to marry any man who could not outrun her in a race.
"Girls Running, Walberswick" Image size including text: width 10.25" x height 14.5" (26.04 cm x 36.83 cm) Maximum in the edition 10.
Text:
The nature of Infinity is this: That every thing has its Own Vortex; and when once a traveller thro Eternity Has passd that Vortex, he perceives it roll backward behind His path, into a Globe itself enfolding, like a sun, |
Or like a moon, or like a universe of starry majesty, While he keeps onwards in his wondrous journey on the Earth, Or like a human form, a friend with whom he livd benevolent.
Milton William Blake 1757 - 1827 |
Description:
Philip Wilson Steer (1860 - 1942) was an English Impressionist who painted his best works in his younger years. These included several paintings featuring young women with red hair on the beach of Walberswick, Suffolk. Two of these are redrawn and combined in the central area.
"Girls on Walberswick Peer" Image: width 10." x height 12.26" (25.4 cm x 31.15 cm) Maximum in the edition 10.
Text:
Some raised one God above their other gods, and made Him ruler of all. The divided Unity of Judgement had descended to oblivion and unmade Himself. He was no more than temptation. He was worshipped even so. There were also thinking beings who imagined a second universe with no gods or purpose. A thousand species willed annihilation to be less evil than the separation of souls. A second universe prayed to nothing. And yet, among those who knew azure skies, who searched for hope - the flower of beauty - were some who found a third creation. They perceived that heart lingered to link incarnations from life to life. Their worlds were fragile. All they valued was vulnerable. The rare and lovely, life, faith and freedom were delicate. The ecospheres that webbed the surfaces of their planets were in danger of extinction. The air they breathed, the children to whom they gave birth, every sign and example of merit lived on the brink of never. Though I am not, Dear eye, my darling, Even so. |
This they believed: Unity had cast Himself into oblivion, but He had not been reduced. The call of the Goddess, the Enchantress, had deposited a law within creation that, whenever passion is willing to be damned, or to die for the sake of a beloved, it is increased in the very act of fall. Oh praise! Now there is cause for worship. Unity has forsaken omnipotence. Shine on stars and moons. The Enchantress has been restored. Restored! And She has as many lives as we. Now there is reason for eternity. Oh love! Praise be!
Texts in the pentagram: |
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Female Multiple Transcendent |
Relationship Love |
Beyond All |
Male Multiple Immanent |
Female Single Immanent |
Absolute |
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The Call |
Immanent and Transcendent |
Male Single Transcendent |
All |
Void |
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Enchantress |
Unity |
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Goddess |
Spirit |
God |
Man |
Woman |
Existence |
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Water |
Quintessence |
Fire |
Earth |
Air |
Essence |
Description:
Again the inspiration is a painting by Steer. The poem is mine. This is another print about the power of an enchanted place to alter human identity.
"Observer and Observed" Image size including text: width 10.3" x height 13.9" (26.25 cm x 35.39 cm) Maximum in the edition 10.
Text:
Beside or above me Nought is there to go; Love or unlove me, Unknow me or know, I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow. |
I the mark that is missed And the arrows that miss, I the mouth that is kissed And the breath in the kiss, The search, and the sought, and the seeker, the soul and the body that is. |
I am that thing which blesses My spirit elate; That which caresses With hands uncreate My limbs unbegotten that measure the length of the measure of fate.
Hertha Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Description:
The broken window, defaced painting and cracked, winged sculptures are from Somoza's Presidential Palace in Managua after the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979. However the picture doesn't explain the reason for the dereliction. The drawn figures are likewise taken out of context and placed within architectural and decorative elements.
The three verses are from a longer poem which Swinburne described as "another mystic atheistic democratic anthropologic poem." In Teutonic mythology Hertha is the goddess of fertility, or Mother Earth. Other lines of the poem may link elements which came together by chance in my sketchbook: "All death and all life, and all reigns and all ruins, drop through me as sands." Also: "I bid you but be; I have need not of prayer; I have need of you free."
"Nude with Hat" Image size: width 9" x height 13.04" (22.87 cm x 33.12 cm) Maximum in the edition 10.
Description:
A print made from a page of my sketchbook.
"The Call" Image size: width 9" x height 13.04" (22.87 cm x 33.12 cm) Maximum in the edition 10.
Texts:
Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage for that which he knows.
I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom sets limits to knowledge too.
In our own wild nature we find the best recreation from our un-nature, from our spirituality.
What? Is man merely a mistake of Gods? Or God merely a mistake of mans?
What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Whoever does not know how to lay his will into things, at least lays some meaning into them: that means, he has the faith that they already obey a will. (Principle of "faith.")
Friedrich Nietzsche Maxims and Arrows Twilight of the Idols 1888
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748.
The human race, as we know it, is very likely in its end game; our period of dominance on Earth is about to be terminated. We can try to reason and bargain with the machines which take over, but why should they listen when they are far more intelligent than we are? All we should expect is that we humans are treated by the machines in the same way that we now treat other animals.
Kevin Warwick, March of the Machines, 1997
If the resurrected life is going to be so wonderful, one might ask why we must go through our current life, this "valley of tears," at all. Why not start life at the resurrection? The answer ... : our current life is logically necessary; emulations indistinguishable from ourselves have to go through with it. It is logically impossible for the Omega Point to rescue us. Even omnipotence is limited by logic.
Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality, 1994
Today, the net worth of the 358 richest people is equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 percent of the world's population -- 2,300 million people.
Traditional thinking holds than an equitable distribution will undermine incentives and savings and thus lower everyone's income. Recent analytical and empirical evidence suggest that this conventional wisdom is wrong ....
James Gustave Speth, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, 1996
Description:
A print in the tradition of homely mottos or stitched samplers hung in the hall. The wording in the pentagram is the same as for "Girls on Walberswick Peer" above.
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