Joanna (how appropriate!) - Is it not the picture of one of the pianos
stranded on the beach by well-to-do early colonials? They often couldn't get
them off the beach and they rotted there. The quilts they used as packing
later became classic collectible items. I have seen such an image in a
history text somewhere. Any historians in the audience?
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: help! tidal piano
> Yeah, my feelings were Dali-esque, though can't help thinking Dali would
> have given the piano some terminal condition or other. Some of Dali
frankly
> terrifies me, still.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:28 PM
> Subject: Re: help! tidal piano
>
>
> > Joanna:
> >
> > Sounds vaguely surrealist. Or dada.
> >
> > {My art belongs daddy -- Tristran Tzara quoted in Tom Stoppard's
> > +Travesties+.)
> >
> > The three-piano cascade reminds of Magritte, but oddly nuff, RM didn't
do
> > pianos -- every explosive deleted repeated iconographic image but.
> >
> > So ground-zero is de Chirico, Magritte, and Dali.
> >
> > My money's on Dali.
> >
> > Nah?
> >
> > The Dynamiter Zero
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:56 AM
> > Subject: help! tidal piano
> >
> >
> >> After mistyping that link around midnight (sorry! and it clearly spent
a
> >> while in transit too) my sleep last night was troubled by some rather
> >> peculiar dreams. One episode in particular is bothering me, because I'm
> > sure
> >> it's based on something I've actually seen or seen a picture of --
> > painting,
> >> photograph, film, or whatever.
> >>
> >> I was on a shore, looking from right to left towards a piano which was
> >> standing actually in the shallows. The keyboard was facing me. It was
an
> >> oldfashioned upright, very tall for its width, and I knew that whatever
> >> original I'd seen showed just the one instrument though in my dream
there
> >> were three, evenly spaced one behind the other along the waterline. I
> > don't
> >> think there was a pianist, but I was aware that if there was it would
be
> >> a
> >> man in a frock coat, with a lot of black hair and his hands flying. The
> >> colours were muted -- black, white, shades of grey and cream. And it
was
> >> absolutely silent, which was a relief to me since I'd just got out of a
> > room
> >> in which a lot of people were all talking at once, making a noise like
> >> the
> >> sea so that I ended up feeling faint. That last is a weird experience
in
> >> a
> >> dream, I can tell you!
> >>
> >> This is probably either glaringly obvious to everyone but me or else
> >> wholecloth out of my own head. But if anyone recognises the visual
spark
> > it
> >> came from, I'd be glad to know.
> >>
> >> Have a good weekend,
> >>
> >> joanna
> >
>
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