December Breeze / En diciembre llegan las brisas |
Marvel Moreno (23 September 1939 – 5 June 1995)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) The Morning after the Deluge Moses Writing the Book of Genesis - William Turner - a Relats conjunts |
Art as the centre of the world Selected letters and writings |
Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840)
A photograph by Miquel Àngel Vich alias Barbolaire |
– Smoke hidden ghoulish faces, eyes, grimaces, torso of a female figure. Positive became negative. Smoke without sound.
– Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
– Says who?
– Goethe, Faust I.
– Lousy translation. Faust says, verse 3457: Name ist Schall und Rauch. Name is sound and smoke. Not words. May I ask who created this photographic artwork?
– Didn't you just say names are sound and smoke?
– Thanks a lot. But that was Goethe.
– Nitpicker. Let's turn the whole thing on its head for fun. What do you see now?
– See? There are more things in heaven and earth, Sean, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
– Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5.
– Yes, yes. Smart arse. But now: What is the name of the poetic photo artist?
– The name is at the top under the photo. ;-)
This morning, as I was waking up from sweet dreams, I discovered that in my bed I had been changed into a tiny insect and now was sitting on my glasses reading Kafka's Verwandlung: One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes. “What’s happened to me,” he thought. It was no dream. |