“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing.
Making your unknown known is the important thing—
and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”
Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter, to Sherwood Anderson.
Photo of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
Both on the material and the spiritual planes the ark symbolizes the power to preserve all things and to ensure their rebirth.
Biologically speaking, it can be regarded as a symbol of the womb or of the heart, there being an obvious connection between these two organs.
The basic symbolism of the ark is the belief that the essences of the physical and spiritual life can be extracted and contained within a minute seed…
until such time as a rebirth creates the conditions necessary for the re-emergence of these essences into external life.
The ark, during the cosmic parlay, floats on the waters of the lower ocean.
The rainbow, in the realm of the ‘upper waters,’ is a sign of the restoration of the order which is preserved below in the ark.
Both figures together, being complementary, complete the circle of Oneness.
They therefore correspond to the two halves of the ancient symbol of the ‘world egg.’
As a symbol of the heart (or of the mind, or of thought) the image of the ark is similar to that of the drinking-vessel, so frequent in medieval mysticism.
from A Dictionary of Symbols by J.E. Cirlot
Images: Photographs of political hip-hop artist Keny Arkana in montage with a page from The Lindisfarne Gospels, an illuminated manuscript created around the year 700.
Moon shattering upon a highway her voice inside you.
Her voice inside you, a falling stone.
Her mountain stone an echo, your mouth erupting.
Tattooed with Hittite song her skin barely visible, a windshield.
Her Hittite moon evaporating, condensing upon your windshield.
She confuses you while casting forth the vibrant song of singing birds.
Birdsong at work within you, within a song-stone breeze, erupting.
Her stone-sliding an echo.
Almost a whisper
Your voice evaporating & erupting, an engineering marvel.
Lyrics on collage from ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’ https://vimeo.com/113869969
Although cubistic, these artworks pre-date Cubism (and Sam Cooke) by roughly 7,000 years. Hamangia culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria) between the Danube and the Black Sea and Muntenia in the south.
Cubist image: Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), late Spring, 1910
You Send Me by Sam Cooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNco-e2CXuo
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We need to learn an almost extinct language I will study with you.
We need to live among the people whose language is almost lost I will join you and also learn traditional survival skills.
To leave me for the shaman I will drive a stake through his medicine box, realize my grave error instantly, and escape, although barely.
To beckon and summon, seducing me with whispers that reach into my blood, I will return.
I must stand trial for my crimes against love and magic, I will escape, again.
If you decide to hypnotize me while I sleep I will seal my heart against your vibrations and embrace the crazed dream of modernity. Because I am a fool. Weary of surviving on roots. Even the root of you. Even the root of me.
If you decide I must seal my heart against the sounds you once made I will throw the window open a final time, upon your murmur coursing & drenched in starlight, intersected by a highway carrying the disappeared.
If you decide to remain quiet I will train my ear to hear the sunlight falling.
If you decide it is my duty to dig out the wooden stake I will return in the dead of night speaking an extinct language.
Photo credit: Renee Perle, a Romanian Jewish girl who moved to Paris, is famous as the first muse of the famous French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), who is considered one of the leading photographers of the 20th century.
http://www.romanianculture.org/personalities/Renee_Perle.htm
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