Something connected these two works spatially and visually in my imagination. Maybe at first the subtle earth tones. I must have made three dozen digital collages for the GIF. Used many.
Pottery Vessel in the Form of a Ram, Unknown artist, Western Iran, 1350-800 B.C., Ceramic Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Juan Gris, 1912, Still Life With Flowers, oil on canvas, 112.1 X 70.2 cm Museum of Modern Art
One filament of ornamental air encoded within a supposed entity
Transmitting thirst
Hail the laws of Cyrus!
A juror concealed within valves of light
Whistles alarm sound-song sharp as a needle
Revealed
In mound-like hills
A supposed entity carries forward the encoded cylindrical laws of Cyrus
The unseen has now been seen – running upon a wall
Place the ladder beside a wall
Bring out the trees in the heart
Bring out the heart in the psyche
Forgotten in the garden light-years away
Bring out the ladders built of light-years
One filament of ornamental air encoded within a supposed entity
Transmitting hunger
Hail the laws of Cyrus!
Laws made of ladders reach into star-cycles
A juror concealed within valves of light
Whistles alarm sound-song sharp as a needle
Revealing
A supposed entity carries forward the encoded cylindrical laws of Cyrus
The unseen has now been seen – moving its lips
On TV – remember TV?
One filament of ornamental air encoded within a supposed entity
Transmitting
The unseen remember justice
Ten by ten the innocent fall
In a garden light-years away
A supposed entity
Chanting
Bring out the nets braided with theory
And theoriesbuilt of ladders
Hail the laws of Cyrus!
A juror concealed within valves of light
Whistles alarm
Within a mound-like hill
Law encodes a star-cycle of justice
One by one the guilty await
A supposed entity
Carries forward the encoded cylindrical laws of Cyrus
Chanting
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I juxtaposed stills from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) with stills from a televised theatrical production of Twelve Angry Men (1954). I used the copyrighted images under fair play provisions for educational or commentary (& non-profit) purposes.
I adapted the sort of art & design nobody signed their name to for the digital collages in this GIF: book covers and a couple B&W illustrations exploring ancient/antiquarian themes & styles. These digital collages are a ‘mash-up’ (remember that term?) and thus, one could say, new works. I continue creating GIFS using vignettes, or anecdotes, from my December, 2019 literary non-fiction book Meme-Noir.
The vignette here is, I suppose, something that happens when the body creates a metaphor or connects to memory in DNA. It relates to the feeling of the images I worked with.
This is a GIF because it is created in a GIF format but it is inordinately long, almost two minutes, with a huge image file. I will create smaller, more ‘traditional’ GIFS from this group of images.
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