Pichure Escapades: home of mediated visual bliss

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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.