The world is a mask that hides the real world.
Thatâs what everybody suspects, though the world we see wonât let us dwell on it long.
The world has ways - more masks - of getting our attention.
The suspicion sneaks in now and again, between the cracks of everyday existenceâ¦the bird song dips, rises, dips, trails off into blue sky silence before the note that would reveal the shape of a melody that, somehow, would tie everything together, on the verge of unmasking the hidden armature that frames this sky, this tree, this bird, this quivering green leaf, jewels in a crown.â¦
As the song dies, the secret withdraws.
The tree is a mask.
The sky is a mask.
The quivering green leaf is a mask.
The song is a mask.
The singing bird is a mask.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
chance
The screen went dark, then this image [69] and caption:
Jean (Hans) Arp. Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance. 1916–17. Torn-and-pasted papers on gray paper, 19 1/8 x 13 5/8" (48.6 x 34.6 cm). Purchase. © 2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
The screen scrambled, then:
"Are you willing to take a chance, Redactor?"
I don't know, I answered.
Do you have any idea where that picture and description come from?
No.
Never heard of MOMA?
Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. That was demolished in 2004, to make room for a ChurchØne® tabernacle. But I don't recall that image from the database. The database was taken off-line not long after that, if I remember my ChurchØne® history, along with the rest of the non-Christian art.
What if it wasn't?
What if it wasn't what?
Demolished. Or taken off-line.
That stopped me. What could this person be talking about?
You've got my attention.
Jean (Hans) Arp. Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance. 1916–17. Torn-and-pasted papers on gray paper, 19 1/8 x 13 5/8" (48.6 x 34.6 cm). Purchase. © 2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
This elegantly composed collage of torn-and-pasted paper is a playful, almost syncopated composition in which uneven squares seem to dance within the space. As the title suggests, it was created not by the artist's design, but by chance. In 1915 Arp began to develop a method of making collages by dropping pieces of torn paper on the floor and arranging them on a piece of paper more or less the way they had fallen. He did this in order to create a work that was free of human intervention and closer to nature. The incorporation of chance operations was a way of removing the artist's will from the creative act, much as his earlier, more severely geometric collages had substituted a paper cutter for scissors, so as to divorce his work from "the life of the hand."
The screen scrambled, then:
"Are you willing to take a chance, Redactor?"
I don't know, I answered.
Do you have any idea where that picture and description come from?
No.
Never heard of MOMA?
Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. That was demolished in 2004, to make room for a ChurchØne® tabernacle. But I don't recall that image from the database. The database was taken off-line not long after that, if I remember my ChurchØne® history, along with the rest of the non-Christian art.
What if it wasn't?
What if it wasn't what?
Demolished. Or taken off-line.
That stopped me. What could this person be talking about?
You've got my attention.
