Mertz. 458 Wriedt Kurt Schwitters 1922
Collage: Alan Mitchell 2022
(Work in progress, preparation for a trompe l'oeil gilded and gesso wood panel with partial engaged frame)
G.M.Hopkins. Spelt from Sybil's Leaves. 1886
Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, . . . stupendous
Evening strains to be time’s vást, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night.
Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ' her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height
Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, ' stárs principal, overbend us,
Fíre-féaturing heaven. For earth ' her being as unbound, her dapple is at an end, as-
tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self ín self steepèd and páshed – quite
Disremembering, dísmémbering, ' áll now. Heart, you round me right
With: Óur évening is over us; óur night ' whélms, whélms, ánd will end us.
Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black,
Ever so black on it. Óur tale, O óur oracle! ' Lét life, wáned, ah lét life wind
Off hér once skéined stained véined varíety ' upon áll on twó spools; párt, pen, páck
Now her áll in twó flocks, twó folds – black, white; ' right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind
But thése two; wáre of a wórld where bút these ' twó tell, each off the óther; of a rack
Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, ' thóughts agaínst thoughts ín groans grínd.
Word Rambling ..............
Haruspication from detritus, significant insignificance, broken books, creased paper, torn card, glued and stained linen, wood gouged and filled, plastered, painted, leaves of gold, arte povera.........
..........a thought, a thing, part object, part process in time and space, a personal memory, or collective history, presence, absence, sense, senseless, meaning, meaningless, desire and loss, metaphor, puzzle, code, sign, mark, elegy, poetic evocation, layered, hidden, buried, enigmatic, mysterious.........
cyclical, un-ended, repetitive, a pattern of recurrence.................................
..............closed narratives, locked or circumscribed images, icon and iconoclasm, taboo or fetish, through windows and doors, frames, boundaries, edges, liminal spaces, vertical and horizontal axis, diagonal leanings, beginning towards ending, reality, illusion, abstract, representational, trompe l'oeil, plumbing surface to depth, peeling back veneers, skins, anatomizing space, time ..............
...................transient, forgotten, fragile, fugitive, fragmented, dislocated, ephemeral, discontinuity, destruction, disassembled, shattered, broken, lost, loose, faded, decayed, neglected, damaged, old, poor, dirty, fractured, torn, peeling, flaking, stained, sick, chaotic, wasted, wounded, ripped, defaced, defiled, profaned, interrupted, incomplete, in disarray, abandoned, rubbish, absent, unknown, nameless, nothing, hidden, masked, emasculated, un-seamed.............................
re-presented, revitalized, returned, re-established continuity, assembled, reconstructed, repaired, retrieved, preserved, conserved, restored, renewed growth, re-created, enriched, cleaned, fixed, sewn together, strengthened, healed, glued, complete, ordered and organized, re-attached, valued, precious, treasured, sacred, known, named, something revealed .......
