January 2010
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the moon:
I wandered around the pond
all night long
( Basho )
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TO MAKE THE PORTRAIT OF A BIRD
Firstly paint a cage with the door open paint then something pretty something simple something beautiful something useful for the bird put then the canvas against a tree in a garden in a wood or in a forest hide behind the tree without saying a word without moving… Sometimes the bird arrives soon but it can also need some years before it decides Don’t get...
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POUR FAIRE LE PORTRAIT D’UN OISEAU
Peindre d’abord une cage avec une porte ouverte peindre ensuite quelque chose de joli quelque chose de simple quelque chose de beau quelque chose d’utile pour l’oiseau placer ensuite la toile contre un arbre dans un jardin dans un bois ou dans une forêt se cacher derrière l’arbre sans rien dire sans bouger… ...
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Breakfast enjoyed
in the fine company of
morning glories
( Basho )
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NPR's terrible art journalism
kunstwissenschaftlerin:
don’t know about you, but I walk right past sketches when I’m at a museum. I head for the color: the oils, the big things.” Thus begins Susan Stamberg’s NPR review of the Rembrandt drawings exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Stamberg might just as well wear a sweatshirt that says, “I am shallow!” The rest of the “article” is mainly quotes from the curator...
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evening wind— water laps the heron’s legs
( Yosa Buson)
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A lovely thing to see
through the paper window”s hole,
the Galaxy.
( Issa )
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Ah,the sad expression
in the eyes of that caged bird-
envying the butterfly!
( Issa)
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The wind from Mt. Fuji
I put it on the fan.
Here,the souvenir from Edo.
( Basho )
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Something was promised to me by the afternoon and the mountain. I have lost it.
( Borges )
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all night
autumn winds being heard
behind the mountains
so clear the sound
( Basho )
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Under the Moon an extended, solitary shadow.
( Borges )
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