La Seine, Paris

La Seine, Paris

Paris is great, immensely great, and far too great for most pens. I won’t even pretend that I could encapsulate its wonders in such a terse paragraph. I am not sure anymore how the frame came into my possession and it probably doesn’t matter. I need a frame and one appears dropped off by the most unlikely people - or the Mary Potter Hospice has the one I need. The unlikely are likely Maupassant, Baudelaire, Quasimodo or Edith Piaf.

The short of the long story is that when I saw the picture of Paris in the frame it sent me on one of those classic nostalgia rushes. I couldn’t tear the framing apart as I usually do – retrieving frame, glass and picture and backing board.

I wiped the glass clear of dust and started painting. The railing took shape first, then the foreground and the trees. I had seen trees like these alongside Notre Dame. I left some of the picture (the blue-gray section) because of the amazing gaslights and classic nature of the towers on the building. Then the five coloured flashes just happened as did the red spiral. Having coloured Paris to my liking was not enough.

I passed the picture on to Phil’s sister Cat for her overlay. She meticulously cut up a paint stockist’s catalogue and added the squares that add the necessary pizzazz to the painting. I was happy – it was complete and framed.

Gouache, acrylic, spray paint, metallic paint squares on glass, 2007

This is my first day of blogging so I am sort of excited. I have had a lot of this cooped up in me for a while!

I claim to be a poet as well as a painter so here is a sample. It is about the new quantum reality of Bell's Theorem (spooky action at a distance):

Cognitive Chaos, Kaos Magick

Kaos Magick
Chaos science
Chaos
Strange attractors
Order out of chaos
Harder
Chaos movement
Quantum/chaos
Magicians, mutants
Everyday life
Pure Math, and the Mind
Alternative network
Autonomous zone
Jewel, passports, Yab-Yum
Matrix Book
Revolution
Revelation 21
Visionary recitals
Seditious nonsense
A perfect place for a UFO landing
Cognitive chaos
Fractal universe
Outre/' typology
Strange attractors
Patterns of chaos
Mandelbrot and Cantor
Solved the problems
n-dimensional strange attractors
Mind maps
Ride with chaos 'lucid dreamer'
Surfing the wave function
Chance
Black modem
Hedonics
Peak
Moorish science
Brain machine
Pure
Mind machines
Cognitive chaos
Self liberation
Deep grammar

Higher
Ground, taste
Being/consciousness/bliss
Satchitananda
Tantrik
Hard sciences
Brain machine
Brain waves
Strange attractors
Iconography
Alchemical
Threshold
Cognitive chaos
Diving
Yogic powers
Inner heat
Absence of dis-ease
Descend
Collapse of the wave function
Schroedinger's [damned and] famous cat
Become
Create?

Ride the wave
Participation
Orthodox
Moment
When? never!

Alternating world
The cat is both alive and dead
Hillbert space
Attractors

Grok
Cognitive chaos
Cat Paramus
Alice's Cheshire cat
Schroedinger's poor victim
Destination
Memorized its address
Strange attractors
Probable
Universe next door
Ong's Hat Rod & Gun Club
Accident
The authorities
Cognitive chaote
Carrying
non-initiates
Anywhere! - so long as out of this world
EXISTS

...ills of Consensus Reality
Realised itself
Chaos never Died!
Sympathetic magick?
Yes, sympathetic magick
Newton emphasised force
Quantum emphasises finesse
Christians have the cross
Islam crescent and stars
Pagans have pentagrams
Buddhists have wheels
Quantum tantra the fork
It's bigger than both of us
Precise unclarity

Randomness
Thinglessness
Interconnectiveness
White, hot & sticky

Music is the connection in his technology
Why?
Because the possibilities are vibratory
Alternate dimensions
Egg-craft, travel cults, Tantrik-yoke
Answers come as a result of
finesse over force...
Conclusion

Order
Against
Health
Margin
Umm al-kitab
Shapes
Proofs
Bricoleuse
Raison d'etre
One
Techne
Icon
Attention
Other
Chaos never...
... died.

inanga Wiremu, Travel Notebook, 2001, in the year of a space oddity.

If any of those subject were of interest to you, I suggest you Google The Incunabula on www.deoxy.org.

I just want to warn you that following the trail of The Incunabula can be fraught with danger, but the path of a Seeker ne'er runs smooth.

inanga