Posted by tracciamenti on gennaio 9th 2010 @ 2:18 pm
yesterday woke up with a special music
today my awakening is not so gay
black people are hardly fighting for thir rights and an entire town of south italy, rosarno, is shocked / wounds and aggressions by police – government objects with a diffident and almost racist attitude /
would like you to watch a couple of video – they are in italian but words are not needed to understand what happens / the first is about the black protest and the second one shows conditions in which those people live
on the first day of the year, published a quite long post with some considerations about life and artistic work – it took me some time, wanted to write it in english to make all of you understand a little bit more of my thoughts /
don’t ask how many of you read it – but actually people go on in commenting just nice photos or interesting music without expressing their ideas and doubts about what I write here /
now I need an help and don’t care if you will get bored of my blog and will never come back
I need to receive some solutions about the meaning of visual activity – and really would like to know if someone of you ever thought about his/her work also as a way to better a specific situation – maybe racism, or censure, or environmental desease (just to quote few) /
how much of the real world (and not of your merely individual life) you put in your everyday visual work (or in your blogs?) and above all, HOW do you do it? because it is so hard for me not to be able to find a way, and often fall back in the usual boring and individualist decoration!
days ago social design zine closed its activity
it was a special blog about design, graphics and all social connections with this kind of matter /
they closed because noticed that people was too passive and silent and that the debate was stagnant /
understand very well their claim about a more intense debate
I know that I can’t pretend or hope anything and I don’t – but I need solutions – I need my blog to have a sense and a direction, to let me grow
need (my) drawings to lead to some questions and not only to ornate some living room around the world
have a good sunday – mine will be probably rainy and meditative
Cerca la tua anima
Come i suonatori con i tasti
Prima di suonare forte –
Ti stordisce per gradi –
Prepara la tua natura fragile
Per l’eterea botta
Con martelli più deboli – uditi lontano –
Poi più vicini – poi così lenti
Che il tuo respiro – ha tempo di riprendersi –
Il tuo cervello – di gorgogliare indifferente –
Scatta – imperiale – una sola saetta –
Che scotenna la tua anima nuda –
Quando i venti prendono le foreste nelle zampe –
L’universo – è fermo -
time can change people (at least me) so much
you could test it in my previous post, where I showed you several angels drawn in the years
my way of considering and processing what I see and live is different day by day, even if some references don’t lose their importance
one of my beloved poets and writers is rainer maria rilke and often go to repass his sublime verses
he wrote about angels and could make this archetypal figure match so intimately with incoming modernity of 1900
then, I still was very young, met the work of another great poet that wrote an entire book entitled to angels: rafael alberti, born in spain, spent some of his life in italia too, during francisco franco dictatorship / he as been one of the greatest exponents of spanish leftist culture
his angels come directly from real life, a metropolitan life we can verify in our everyday
.+ el angel ceniciento +
Precipitadas las luces
por los derrumbos del cielo,
en la barca de las nieblas
bajaste tú, Ceniciento.
Para romper cadenas
y enfrentar a la tierra contra el viento.
Iracundo, ciego.
Para romper cadenas
y enfrentar a los mares contra el fuego.
Dando bandazos el mundo,
por la nada rodó, muerto.
No se enteraron los hombres.
Sólo tú y yo, Ceniciento.
RAFAEL ALBERTI
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actually my body is crossing a difficult moment – as my life and my country
would meet a powerful and very patient angel, maybe – helping me to (feel) better
Posted by tracciamenti on dicembre 16th 2009 @ 11:24 am
in a recent post camilla put a photo of a special christmas angel made by cornelia
during the years I drew many angels (not for christmas time) each one different in shape and attitude
today made some scans of those i still have at home – a small angelical antologia
Posted by tracciamenti on dicembre 11th 2009 @ 8:07 pm
they look like old kodachrome but are not – … my eyes have a blurry attitude >>> :-|
anyway – they make a good match with this languid vintage video found on utube
Posted by tracciamenti on dicembre 9th 2009 @ 2:14 pm
reading about some books she is going to afford in the next time I realize that this year has been poor in lectures but the few I made have been almost special / hope to recuperate during christmas days, while at my parents
this morning printed some postcards in a big size to arrange a set for sale
made 8 different prints but still don’t have decided which 4 will be chosen
next post will show you better – will you please tell me the 4 you like more?
and more on my table, about some swap
I am getting older: when I make some cut works have to take off my glasses
camilla:
wrote you some lines about your words and you will receive them in some days
anyway – suppose it is a question of personal conscience and not exactly of beauty itself
beauty that doesn’t carry some truth inside is just an empty ornament
and truth is a very complicated affair, not always so pleasant, to be lived as to be described
mandy:
know very well the long hot summer in the original with paul newman, but even if I like it pretty much don’t find so much analogies with bobby long / they are both very special movies, anyway
thank you for commenting, you are always welcome :)
