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I wrote a line about beauty being the beginning of silence

a pyramid of soundlessness above a white bed

An intuitive synchronicity guided me

as I arranged unrelated

photographs of Joseph Beuys with a book from the 50s

The idea of Greek drapery

flowed into

an action/performance:

Titus Andronicus/Iphigenie

It was Earth Day

I imagined clicking ‘like’ on a picture of a cat

and the cat saying

Oh 

spare me

Seriously

spare me…

And

Joseph Beuys

calming the

creature

With an

explanation

of sound

How

the simple act

of

perceiving vibrations

Creates

a white bed

&

 revolution anew

Casting

obsolete paradigms

aside.

One of Joseph Beuys’ most powerful performances was Titus Andronicus/Iphigenie, performed May-June, 1969 in the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt, Germany for Experimenta 3: http://ropac.net/exhibition/iphigenie

Iphigenia is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.

Photographs of Joseph Beuys performance: Joseph Beuys foundation. Personal Beauty and Charm published by The Homemaker’s Encyclopedia Inc. 1952. I do not own the copyright any of these photographs. I have refashioned them under fair use provisions to create a new work for non-commercial purposes of parody or commentary.