Sources: poetry

Reflections on finding the essence of art in the removal of what is familiar, or, perhaps, the suppression of context, or something like that. The suggestion is that the artist, rather than suppressing detail in order to create a model that emphasizes a subject, suppresses markers that might provide a context within reality, thereby opening the space for interpretation and imagination — allowing the mind to do more work than the model. Pardoxically, the conclusion is that the artist (Fan Ho, in this case) “is capable of showing more than is really there.” Featuring senryu and photographs by Fan Ho. Short and beautiful.

Don’t really inow what to do with this but I find it pleasing. A dead-pan intro about plant evolution concludes with the assertion that flowers appeared and invented love, and then led to everything we care about. The article is really an introduction to a work of musical and collage-animation art based on Emily Dickenson’s poem Bloom — the song is beautiful and Joan as Police Woman has a great voice.