A short note on the video.
The music from Darius Milhaud’s “La Creation du Monde”, the drawings of mine, after Chris Marker’s movie “la Jetee”, telling a story about WW3 and the titles of the short episodes relating to the names of the typewriters from William Burroughs book “Naked Lunch” tells the story of Zdunska Wola’s “Interzone” in WW2.
Hi,
“A chat from the past” depict in my proper time, today: June 25 2011 Israel, events from another time in the year 1941, during WW2 in Zdunska Wola, Polin.
The pictures show my father mother and myself, who survived the holocaust, transferred to Zdunska Wola of WW2, working as tailors.
All the pictures are clickable..
To see more pictures, download “A Chat from the Past” in PDF format.
My above drawing is an improvisation representing (perhaps) our entombment or resurrection embedded in our new virtual neighborhood.
Not so long ago our neighborhood was perceived as the outdoor scene: the street with all his ramifications traffic and people. Every direction under the sun the rain or the snow was an open playfield . Today a new playfield , the ‘TwitterFacebook’ band, is emerging as a new social religion with his rituals and daily imperatives. Mother nature herself, under her urban mode or her outdoor mode, is under the direct heavy attack of the ‘TwitterFacebook’ band or gang, chose the epithet you like.
In medieval times: 
great painters painted Crucifixions, Entombments and Resurrections. See Grunewald’s altarpiece, left. Or in our modern time Francis Bacon’s modern crucifixion, right.
If so, why not create the artworks needed to glorify the new ‘TwitterFacebook’ church? With their Membership of about 700 millions people, see here and here, the Vatican himself may feel like an endangered species. And it is worth to note that hordes of Christian Jewish and Islamic believers are members of the new church, holding a two headed passport to their new heaven…
Anyway, the time is ripe to paint the new Crucifixions, Entombments and Resurrections and to canonize the new Saints of the church in cathedrals a la Frank Ghery.
A practicing member of the church:
BTW, here is the beautiful song ‘The Messiah isn’t coming’ … a song by Shalom Hanoch, listen here on You Tube.
Francis Bacon’s studio.
It is a stunning experience to discover how works in the artist’s studio, compared in terms of their exhibition in a respectable gallery or in a museum, represent almost two incompatible worlds.
Francis Bacon’s studio has those qualities of incompatible worlds, a place of anarchy, where like the medieval alchemists he transmuted by some secret process, random moves and thoughts into a work we see later in a golden frame on the wall of a well renowned museum….. “Of his cluttered studio, Bacon said ‘I feel at home here in this chaos because chaos suggests images to me.’ ” read more here.
The painting in the studio.
The painting in a museum.
In fact there are two artworks, the one inside his studio and the other exhibited at the museum. Are they the same artwork?
Paraphrasing on the work of the mathematician Gregory Chaitin : it can be said that in terms of algorithmic complexity the genesis of the work in the studio is perhaps irreducible, because ‘Francis Bacon’s work in his studio‘ is some sort of human algorithm that cannot be written into a program with lesser bits than ‘Francis Bacon’s work in his studio‘ and is therefore random or as Francis Bacon says above, born from the chaos. On the other hand the artwork inside the museum can be copied by anyone with some artistic skills by saying to himself ‘Make a Francis Bacon’.
Moreover what my apply to Francis Bacon in his studio may apply to any artist in any studio if he act in some unpredictable way. Not distancing himself from mechanical procedures learned in art schools or falling under the influence of some authoritative teacher is a recipe of nice mediocrity.
So, has the artist any principles or theories at his disposal.. or is he, with them or without them, irreducibly what he is.
Below: Francis bacon in his studio.
The SketchUp free application from Google is more than a nice 3D architecture software. For me the word ‘more‘ in the above sentence points to the manner I use SketchUp.
I am not an architect, so I have no prejudices and no previous learning on how exactly to plan any building. But my use of the application create unfamiliar forms, shapes and volumes always on their way to something unpredictable
The Push/Pull tool and the Move/Copy tools used in non orthodox moves, not planned but more on the verge of a a spontaneous instinctive ‘line drawing’ feeling, produces a first unpredictable picture ‘Out of the Blue‘, as the song by John Lennon.
And indeed the first picture’s appearance is in a non habitat mood. But when rotating the picture and taking snapshots at different intervals, more unpredictable views came into ‘being’, views which I never planned.
The SketchUp application acted here as a black box device: I made the first input, the black box did the rest by outputting the latter pictures.
Above. The first picture: my input, (click to enlarge).
Below. The black box output, (click to enlarge).
A technical note: After resuming the above pictures in SketchUp 8, I exports them in tiff format to Photoshop, making color and contrast adjustments to get the above final views.
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