De kunstenaar Panamarenko is Dood

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, mourn the passing of Panamarenko, creator of transport solutions with a 'Pataphysic approach to engineering. “He’s perfectly capable of building a plane that really works, but that’s not his goal,” curator Jo Coucke told Flanders Today. Panamarenko's website: https://www.panamarenko.be/

"Sawdust Mountain"

On a dull Sunday afternoon the Bloggist and his friend Alfred Jarry admire a previously unrecorded early Anish Kapoor sculpture. Situated a mere 59.9 miles from Oozells Street, Birmingham, the piece now resides in a little visited yard in Northamptonshire.

Eight Photographs of Mount Fuji

The uncaused first cause

Moses Maimonides in the 12th century and Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century used anthropic arguments to trace back to an uncaused first cause and, to them, the only possible uncaused first cause was John Brown.

Mirrors and/or Windows

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, contemplate Northampton’s Cultural Quarter. Recalling John Szarkowski’s pedagogic exhibition in New York in 1978, Mirrors and Windows, where Mr Szarkowski postulates that photographs are either Mirrors or Windows, not Mirrors and Windows as the exhibition title would lead one to believe, the Bloggist quotes Mr Szarkowski’s text, “In metaphorical terms, the photograph is seen either as a mirror--a romantic expression of the photographer's sensibility as it projects itself on the things and sights of this world; or as a window--through which the exterior world is explored in all its presence and reality”

Monsieur Jarry points out that Mr Szarkowski does cover himself by saying “No photographer's work could embody with perfect purity either of the two divergent motives; it is the nature of his problem to find a personally satisfactory resolution of the contesting claims of recalcitrant facts and the will to form”.

“I wonder what Michael Snow would say?” asks the Bloggist, “Do you think this is a decisive moment or a ‘fine art’ film?”

“Well, it’s certainly a window”, replies Monsieur Jarry.

 

'Dance Piece' entr'acte entitled, "A Cindy Sherman Moment".

A short entr'acte during 'Dance Piece', a self-referential Post-Minimalist Process Art performance by the Salisbury Audio Visual Group referencing the oeuvre of Cindy Sherman.

 

A  performer from the Salisbury Audio Visual Group as Fidel Castro with a Spanish sausage as a Cuban cigar. This movement is performed on the 26th of July each year.

A Garden in Northamptonshire

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, admire the topiary in this garden in Northamptonshire but, while looking at the combination of tree and shrubs, wonder if it is them or the garden’s gardener that would benefit from Freudian analysis.