oh these are wonderful, wonderful! i have just come across them and they have swept me off my feet (you say this in english, don't you? ;-)
and i so love the way the book almost becomes a shoulder in the last one, with a strange ornament adorning it (which may also be an open wound, this happens more often than one might believe).
you praise too much, I think, but then I would think that.
:: smiling :: "Swept off my feet" is an expression they use in English, true.
You are as adept, it would seem, at the ekphrastic as you are at making images. I thank you for understanding what I was trying to 'say' in the final two images. Does it help to add words to them? I wonder. The book upon which the book rests is one of my notebooks, upon it is a copy of the rabbinical Mishnah of Judaism, on that rest the grapes (fruit); the last is an attempt to make all three merge with a twist of the eye. Now, I find that I do not know what it was I was trying to say! Only that I was trying to convey something. Hm.
The first picture is of the Archangel Uriel. I do not conceive of such beings in the 'conventional' way, as benign winged people. I feel this notion of them being 'humans with wings' belies their original strangeness and by so doing cheapens both the [hypothesized] beings and raises humans up too far. The Angels and Archangels, being lower beings than the Cherubim and Seraphim, though, might be graphically representable, though. Uriel, I think, was the being which passed over Egypt on the first Passover. It did, I suppose, what it had to do. Here, it speaks from far later.
oh these are wonderful, wonderful! i have just come across them and they have swept me off my feet (you say this in english, don't you? ;-)
ReplyDeleteand i so love the way the book almost becomes a shoulder in the last one, with a strange ornament adorning it (which may also be an open wound, this happens more often than one might believe).
and what is the first picture?
Seriously. Jump in at the deep end. Why not?
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ReplyDeleteyou praise too much, I think, but then I would think that.
:: smiling :: "Swept off my feet" is an expression they use in English, true.
You are as adept, it would seem, at the ekphrastic as you are at making images. I thank you for understanding what I was trying to 'say' in the final two images. Does it help to add words to them? I wonder. The book upon which the book rests is one of my notebooks, upon it is a copy of the rabbinical Mishnah of Judaism, on that rest the grapes (fruit); the last is an attempt to make all three merge with a twist of the eye. Now, I find that I do not know what it was I was trying to say! Only that I was trying to convey something. Hm.
The first picture is of the Archangel Uriel. I do not conceive of such beings in the 'conventional' way, as benign winged people. I feel this notion of them being 'humans with wings' belies their original strangeness and by so doing cheapens both the [hypothesized] beings and raises humans up too far. The Angels and Archangels, being lower beings than the Cherubim and Seraphim, though, might be graphically representable, though. Uriel, I think, was the being which passed over Egypt on the first Passover. It did, I suppose, what it had to do. Here, it speaks from far later.
Thank you.