On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 11:08 -0600, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> a show titled Texting, here in Edmonton by Alice
> Teichert, a painter coming toward text from that side rather than the
> poet's.
and now a reading of Peter's works... what I like is both Stephen and
Peter's works are open to many different readings and so you can talk
about them without occupying a fixed position. It is like free spirit,
ala Nietzsche
I read Peter as going from painting to poetry, to escape the problem the
easel or studio painting model imposes. Once it is at poetry, then it
can go back to a visual image and be very painterly. I find Peter's work
to be very painterly. And yet, so successfully escapes the limited trap
of the painting model.
Now, isn't this Nietzsche's eternal return? The modern idea of eternity
where what returns is selection. (Deleuze's reading here.) The
connection and selection of lyric poetry and visual, photographic images
coming together as a merger of the technical and aesthetic. (Perhaps
going a little beyond Nietzsche here.)
(As I have already said, even easel and studio painters need to escape
this. To confuse model and painting as the painting model of art is a
mistake best avoided.)
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I have chronic fatigue syndrome so I may be delayed in my reply. Just to
let you know, that's all. Chris Jones.
Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
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