Thursday 31 May 2012

THE REAVING

Detail of APOLLO REVEALING HIS DIVINITY TO THE SHEPHERDESS ISSE by Boucher, 1750. Original painting at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours
  
THE WRONG ENDING,
when the apollonian messenger stood us up
and the unsolicited intervention of a hospice aggravated the suffering of a private death, and the reavers came for the already bereft....

Among Tigers and Panthers


Neoclassical Goddesses and Romantic Heroines
testing the limits of self-determination 

Ariadne on the Panther, marble sculpture by Heinrich Dannecker, 1812 -14. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt. Image source: Web Gallery of Art
 "Lyca lies asleep...among Tygers wild."  William Blake, The Little Girl Found

The Yearning Garden: Part Eight of Rebegot

GARDEN
 every garden is a restoration.....

Friday 18 May 2012

Tricking the mind


"Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders", oil on wood, by Altdorfer. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Image source: Web Gallery of Art


 "The Conductor" by Martin Huebscher. Image source: MHPhotography
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Friday 11 May 2012

bare bones of the story

Michael Rathborne and Diana van Proosdy, c.1950

Thursday 10 May 2012

Audience



....a woman's aquiline profile, seen from far below emerging from the darkness of her box, carries a force like a whirlwind with it; even the plaster putti look as if they're flying her off somewhere..... 

Detail of Edgar Degas (1839-1917), La Loge, 1880. Pastel on paper laid on board, 66 x 53 cm. Private collection....

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Rebegot: Navigation

   in orbit with a blighted child, a man reels between two women, two worlds....

Enchanted Castles and Gardens

German castle ruins photographed by Martin Huebscher Photography