circle - visual poem
I like the fact there's also a circle of condensation fogging the scanner next to the ink painted circle. I didn't realise until I'd done this that I'd cribbed the idea from this post by Troy Lloyd.
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I like the fact there's also a circle of condensation fogging the scanner next to the ink painted circle. I didn't realise until I'd done this that I'd cribbed the idea from this post by Troy Lloyd.
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-- anyway, this goes back to the ancients, but i must say yr piece was more transcendental than mine, escaping language i mean, almost alchemic, reminding me of the gnostic doodles Philip K. Dick drew & Sonic Youth included intha lyric sheest of their Sister album.
many a time i've desired to write upon myself, i have a particular old worn white t-shirt that i handwrit w/ sharpie pen allover & wear inside-out & often i compliment the t-shirt wearing w/ additional notes written upon my arms & hands, for some reason i enjoy the unease this gives certain people, some people just laugh of course, but small children are usually most aware of the signification i'm written upon with.
oh, recently i came upon a good quote via reading Ronald Johnson "Life and Works", the passage is from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forest and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
" Quotation & Originality "
It's interesting that you pick up on something that's encoded in a number of my visual pieces, this one included. When I use a circle in this way I'm usually quoting Victor Segalen's use of small circles to punctuate his verses.
To quote from The Penguin Book of French Poetry 1820-1950, "The Stèles are based on the Chinese literary and religious tradition of the epigraph inscribed on a stone pillar, which has a round hole through which the eye of the sky may see. This object, in Oriental mysticism and ontology, is a complete and unified expression of body and soul, the ephemeral and the permanent."
I haven't written on myself for a couple of years. I have written and drawn on myself and lovers fairly extensively, using a variety of pens. One of my favourites was to go out with provocative words written on my chest and or arms - 'ugly', 'faggot', 'lost' etc.