Axis Mundi X discussion

Rattle has posted another of my visual poetry pieces from their Summer 2008 issue. This went up in January, somehow I missed it until now.

http://www.rattle.com/blog/2009/01/i-...

saucessome!!!

Thanks, Char.

The last of my three Visual Poetry pieces that appeared in Rattle the Summer 2008 is The Making of History. This is a print publication, but since December they’ve been gradually putting the content of that issue online. Here’s the link.

http://www.rattle.com/blog/2009/03/th...

What looks brownish in the photo is really metallic gold. The central image is from Masacci's Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise, fresco in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence 1424-25

Those are really great Ruth. I love the visual story that lends emotion to the words. Plus, I'm so touchy-feely that I want to trace the lines and the frames while I look & read them. :)

Thanks, Sherrie!

It's interesting that the angel has clothes on while adam and eve are naked. also, the angel is almost faceless. is that intentional?

Charissa wrote: "It's interesting that the angel has clothes on while adam and eve are naked. also, the angel is almost faceless. is that intentional?"

You'd have to ask Masacci, Charissa. I don't know. Altho I assume that everything an artist does is intentional. However, artists from other times have no control over how future viewers will interpret their images.

My guess is that the angel is robed because that was the conventional way of portraying angels. And Adam and Eve are naked because, well the story says they were naked.

yes but Ruth you chose the image... you must have a reason for using the image as it is, no?

Gotcha. I chose the image because it resonated with the poem, and on the purely practical side--it was the right shape.

Ruth wrote: "Charissa wrote: "It's interesting that the angel has clothes on while adam and eve are naked. also, the angel is almost faceless. is that intentional?"
You'd have to ask Masacci, Charissa. I do..."

I believe the authoritative male figures of those books were robed because the church mandated many painters to do so at least around the renaissance. They insisted upon illustrating Adam and Eve naked to portray child like innocence. A condescending assumption which was applied to my ancestors as the conquistadors ravaged the Americas.

Yes, Europeans were excellent at parading around the globe with condescension and impunity. It's a toss up who wreaked more havoc, the Spanish in the Americas or the Belgians in the Congo. It's still boggling to look back at how much of the world a tiny island conquered. And now we are still living with the aftershocks of colonialism and imperialism. Inevitable I would say though.

God, satan, you're so self-absorbed.

I've heard that about him.

If you're the real satan, where's that $30 you owe me?

Rusty, did you spend the night in Reno in a cave up in the hills?

I don't want to talk about it.

gotta watch out for those women in Chino, dude.

If he catches up with him he'll spend his life in jail.

ezzactilly.