Pichure Escapades: home of mediated visual bliss

Wallace Stevens “A Pastoral Nun”

Finally, in the last year of her age,

Having attained a present blessedness,

She said poetry and apotheosis are one.

This is the illustration that she used:

If I live according to this law I live

In an immense activity, in which

Everything becomes morning, summer, the hero,

The enraptured woman, the sequestered night,

The man that suffered, lying there at ease,

Without his envious pains in his body, in mind,

The favorable transformations of the wind

As of a general being or human universe.

There was another illustration in which,

The two things compared their tight resemblances;

Each matters only in that which it conceives.

Matthew Collings diary in March’s issue of Modern Painters answers my question (see Drucker and lying). “Picasso is always known as Mr. Freedom, Mr. Sex, Mr. Ego and so on..” Okay. Understood. ugh, noob.

watercolor on paper 11 x 17

I haven’t been a-posting because I’ve got the killer thing that is going around making people not able to leave their beds for days. Hate it.

Just a word more: Joanna mentioned concern with the space created by the reader upon contact and understanding the reading material. You know, the whole “What is an author” deal (cliffnotes!). She called the reader imprint “virtual space”-that is, the space, words, context, whatever imagined by the reader when they digest the symbols that create the words that inspire the reader’s perception. So my question that I of course was too intimidated to ask was: what’s with the internet (important note: she said she was super into digital media)? I mean, you can read “books” on the internet (she’d probably cut me down in a major way if she heard me assuming that books can exist on the internet. She seemed really into craft). If the virtual book/person space she’s talking about is private, than what about the public consciousness of the internet reader?

Here’s what I mean. When you read a page on the internet, like this one, you’ve got to be constantly aware of the possibility of someone else reading the same page, right? There’s got to be some strange voyeur complex that some new media theorist has begun to flesh out about authorship and the internet. Like, what happens when you’re totally self conscious about reading? What, if anything, is compromised? I’ma axe mah friends.

I know I promised me that this would be a strictly visual thang, but now I’m in modify mode. I think this site will be enhanced with my own exquisite thoughts represented by means of text.

You see how much clearer things have become?

Speaking of, I had the pleasure of hearing Joanna Drucker speak at KWH yesterday.

(visual now)

Goofy. Am I wrong? I’d say it to her face. She’s teaching at University of Virginia now and if you’re interested in her you should stalk her at her current academic seat.

Personally, I’d like to see her and Dorothea Lasky in an awkward situation together. Long elevator ride perhaps? Can we get Kathryn Tebordo in there too?

Her presentation was casual and described what it meant to write a text vs. construct a book and then expanded into a discussion about what the thing and aura and icon that is book is and all that. If you read her bio at link above you’ll get an idea of the kind of words she may have used.

She made an inside joke that I didn’t understand. Why is Picasso such a master at anatomy?

ok. so it’s not new nor is it really mine, but this shall become my daily sketch and illustration blog.

enjoy please.