Bukowski and Blake Investigate
by Steven McCabe
Speculation into the investigation:
An inked manuscript penned by sure hand,
billowing dark Satanic mills,
a winged and weightless choir,
shadow of a blooming oak
across the bowling alley,
7 – Eleven coffee to go,
shoes with blinking lights.
Bukowski’s Bluebird and Blake’s Tyger
in performance.
Lovely series of images.
Thank you Anna. I appreciate your visit.
Film noir meets the irreducible poets.
Kafkaesque too (the images).
Kafka at the 7-Eleven.
Very fitting to introduce Kafka! thank you Prospero. I love the reference to film noir also…
Wow! Your work is brilliant. I think Bukowski and Blake would have liked each other. Both liking the edge of things, fastidious.
You are very generous thank you. That’s an interesting thought about edges. Leading to the sympatico Blake and Bukowski might feel for each other’s edges. Wonderful image.
Poetic Noir – beautiful… All around beautiful work and imagery (poetic and tactile)
Thank you Stephia…love the line Poetic Noir….
Ways of seeing and looking. The way one might take photographs of a crime scene with their mind. The depth in these images fascinates me, Steven. I don’t think I’ve ever made a drawing that has anywhere near the depth that you create.
Thank you Karen….the crime scene: infinity in a grain of sand… (sorry, my dark humour couldn’t resist)…this series of ink drawings blended with digital drawing and colouring/texturing…sometimes only a glimmer of the original ink showing…I think this gives the impression of depth…
p.s. That’s very generous of you to say so about the drawings. I haven’t seen your drawings and cannot comment but will offer the same thought to you concerning your photography.
Steven, wow, such serious observers. It is like they have forged an amalgam of time and space, to travel together, relentlessly seeing a chiaroscuro universe.
thank you Jack, they do seem to be investigating the ‘underworld,’ maybe like a Fritz Lang film or Dragnet on TV: ‘Just the facts ma’m, just the facts…’ Perhaps with enough information they will open up time and space ‘tinting’ the chiaroscuro….
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation…
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
noirishly sardonic and here he is:
http://www.hark.com/clips/fhgvmwnkzr-learn-to-stutter
Such disparate characters, even more so than Holmes and Watson, seen through screens of old scratched film or heard through the static of ancient radio dramas…your remarkable images take me there as they investigate dark comic and cosmic misadventures…Blake tracking the lost spirits and Bukowski trolling the carnal alleys of fleshy mystery…what a wonderful pairing to invite for dinner…
Love the images John….you’ve added a new dimension of clues….scenarios…a conceptual installation filled with whistles and tambourines…dylanesque even…