accumulations

note on L Wittgenstein's 'use'

canned

canned poetry you dont have to worry about hidden meanings= the poetry is all on the outside of the can

Gordon W]alters

Auckland Art Gallery << Now showing in/ [new line] HEI KONEI MAI:/WE'LL MEET AGAIN / Row of 32 or so blue full stops / MAIN GALLERY, /GROUND FLOOR >> 2 in red circle ref to plan of Gallery<Patere 1977>> description is derived from Curator's Description on gallery's registration details - http://collection.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/results.jsp?view=detail&pos=1&id=14912 - gallery website says no image available for website - but is reproduced nevertheless in gallery newsletter ---- would it be foolish to expect from newsletter image frameless bleeding its whites into surrounding white page to see image 27 horizontal stripes mainly black & white with circles appended variously in printer's inks applied 85 x 66 mm on white gallery wall image which then would take large expanse of white as ground to which blacks have been subsequently applied as figures on ground interesting as they say image for hei kone mai colon new line we'll meet again ? who's we ? read intrusions of white outgrowths fern frond canoe prow living attached to body of progenitor group or frond finished completed circles see how numerous how lined up apparently all interlocking within black field yet note one greyish about 1 black to 7 white mixture cirrcle isolated between two whites yet reading so and more so and more blacks pushed to edge inequalities inequities as if Gordon painting in NZ Aotearoa white liberal scholar wife translator into literary English of Maaori poetry wdn't notice such obvious allegorical possibility pains to get every edge distinct avoiding complications artist persona decorative taste distraction politics so evident Gordon did not elucidate next door Maaori neighbour asked me to confirm that I was a pacifier maybe yes as Eldridge Cleaver Malcom X used to ask of liberal intellectuals not appeasement of black but voicing concern as white with government policy as here now deploring lack of care in Auckland City Council Art Gallery with about 100 staff employed for cataloguing and registering for what is announced same page as [large blue lettered heading]<Patere1977/[smaller black type] Acquisitions text includes text<<...The title Patere has many/meanings in Maori, but in this case can be interpreted as a chant because of the painting's fluid, melodic quality...[other works named] of the same year have a similar sense of harmony and balance>>language vague abstract <> only justifiable as acutely paradoxical liquid viscose or not 'dried' on this painting in 1977 <> unspeciified way of reading painting as musical score <>can be attributed to any work whatever with a little ingenuity this text effectively helps people to slop while distracting them from issues of serious import on Waitangi Day & every day honour the treaty & honour those who seek to honour it by meditating on it as painter Gordon did for about 40 years effort recuperated in NZ official culture by formalist autonomy critical language & address to anyone who could read discouraged also for Maaori by attack on Walters as racist appropriator for arty formalism thus failing to attempt to read his paintings as messages to government with paintings structured as coded for relations between competing pairs looking more like backgammon than chess noticeably gridded in to zones by simple implied divisions and/or golden mean but always the competing light dark inerlocked within one territory each painting asks for an answer to the question is this how it looks in NZ Aotearoa with identity groups signatories to a treaty but also image can be laid over relationship in a marriage or good and evil nature and culture body and soul mind and senses or any such duality cheers T

writing to screen

writing to screen easily obliterated no matter how preservation is attempted framed by Word designed to scroll as long as a Jack Kerouac could want forgets its past desperate seeing same blank forever writing itself onto the same screen place new text each morning until her execution only text worth the read is the latest news at the frontier accumulation narrative lies lies over my sleeve rubbing itself just shorts stories high said that before paranoid withdrawal finis tear away lighthouse wet Virginia creeper wool wet dog nuts dough though never ever parading toy soldier words parodying dying headlines fill pages without fair hearing hours long as a Jack forever writing until at the frontier shorts away though never pages hours localised gossip adds flavour bursts in short climactic stroke writing continues after the end

meaning of a poem

meaning of a Telecom poem revealed in Jean Batten Place on April 13th 2005. Sorry to keep everyone waiting so long before posting this.

Sometimes these things take time. Gary Sullivan is now looking to see where he got some information for a poem addressed to Nada he published six years ago in 1999. I stumbled upon this only last night. The poem begins with a quote from a letter supposedly from Larry Eigner to Tony Green & Judi Stout about abandoned dogs. But this is not in the letters in my files. I am fairly sure I kept them all. Another mystery: another secret of a poem yet to be revealed.

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Official heatwave

sign of summer heat drooping Impatiens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . look that needs cutting . . . drooping . . . maybe tomorrow

poemsemiotics

Indexical signs

favourite very heavy now old fryingpan never nonstick making good impression when grease cold coagulated

painting beyond semiotics

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DEMARKS: some remarks --1

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notes to 'Demarks'

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