An Orange County sheriff keeps an eye on demonstrators ahead of a speech from US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Anaheim, California: photo by Mike Blake / Reuters, 26 May 2016
Joseph Ceravolo: "The morning is warm..."
May 18, 1987
The air blows cold
Travellers move through a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta: photo by David Goldman / AP, 26 May 2016
Displaced Somalis queue for aid in Beledweyne, north of Mogadishu. Hundreds of families have been forced out of their homes following flash floods in Beledweyne after torrential rains pounded the area.: photo by Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP, 26 May 2016
Displaced Somalis queue for aid in Beledweyne, north of Mogadishu. Hundreds of families have been forced out of their homes following flash floods in Beledweyne after torrential rains pounded the area.: photo by Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP, 26 May 2016
Security forces clash with demonstrators during a protest called by seven labour unions and students against the labour and employment law reform in Bordeaux, France today: photo by George Gobet/AFP, 26 May 2016
Citizens walk on the Corniche, or waterfront promenade along the Beirut coastline, Lebanon: photo by Hassan Ammar/AP, 26 May 2016
Citizens walk on the Corniche, or waterfront promenade along the Beirut coastline, Lebanon: photo by Hassan Ammar/AP, 26 May 2016
Iraqi pro-government forces fire an anti-tank cannon near al-Sejar village, north-east of Fallujah as they take part in a major assault to retake the city from the Islamic State group: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP, 26 May 2016
Iraqi pro-government forces fire an anti-tank cannon near al-Sejar village, north-east of Fallujah as they take part in a major assault to retake the city from the Islamic State group: photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP, 26 May 2016
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies take a protester into custody outside the Anaheim Convention Center where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a rally: photo by Jae C. Hong, 26 May 2016
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies take a protester into custody outside the Anaheim Convention Center where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a rally: photo by Jae C. Hong, 26 May 2016
A Japanese police officer waits for the motorcade transporting US President Barack Obama to drive past near Shima, Japan: photo by Carlos Barria / Reuters, 26 May 2016
Boris Johnson is surrounded by Vote Leave and Vote Remain activists as he speaks in Winchester, as part of his tour on the Vote Leave campaign bus: photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA, 26 May 2016
Boris Johnson is surrounded by Vote Leave and Vote Remain activists as he speaks in Winchester, as part of his tour on the Vote Leave campaign bus: photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA, 26 May 2016
House of Representatives and Senate tribunal staff prepare the tally board during the presidential and vice-presidential canvassing of votes at the session hall of House of Representatives in Manila: photo by Noel Celis/AFP 24 May 2016
US President Barack Obama (C-L) and Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang (C-R) review an honor guard at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam: photo by Minh Hoang/EPA, 23 May 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at Santa Monica High School Football Field in Santa Monica, California: photo by Ringo Chiu/AFP, 24 May 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at Santa Monica High School Football Field in Santa Monica, California: photo by Ringo Chiu/AFP, 24 May 2016
A tennis ball bounces in the rain during The French Open, Roland Garros, Paris: photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters, 23 May 2016
People seen through a train’s windows on the Washington DC metro: photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP, 26 May 2016
Expandable space habitat fails to inflate in NASA's first test: image via Reuters Tech News #ReutersTech, 27 May 2016
Clinton says State Department emails report won't affect campaign: MSNBC: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 27 May 2016
In Trumplandia: What chemicals have we forgotten?
Even though sales are neck and neck at the moment, there's no masking the facts. This Chinese factory is expecting a Donald Trump victory over his likely U.S. presidential rival Hillary Clinton — and it's already churning out the costumes. Photo via @ReutersUS: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 27 May 2016
This Chinese mask factory is betting on a Trump victory over Clinton: image via Reuters Pictures Verified account @reuterspictures, 27 May 2016
This Chinese factory expects a Trump victory -- and they're getting ready: image via Reuters U.S. News Verified account @ReutersUS, 27 May 2016
This Chinese factory expects a Trump victory -- and they're getting ready: image via Reuters U.S. News Verified account @ReutersUS, 27 May 2016
Various Balinese Topeng (dance masks), Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta: photo by Gunawan Kartapranata, 2009
Arthur Schopenhauer: Psychological Observations, from Studies in Pessimism in Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851 (translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders)
Mask found in window of Bodie, California ghost town school house: photo by Tahoenathan, 2009
Masks in showcase of first aid supplies shop, Berlin: photo by Till Krech, 2006
MaskTV: photo by James Reynolds, 2006
Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead: Aztec, sculptor unknown; photo by Jamie Dwyer, 19 August 2008 (Museum of the Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
April 8, 1987
A dog walks the master
among the big trees of the little city,
a dog walks his master in sun.
The trot of the wolf
walks inside the dog. Happiness
lights its eyes aslant with anxiety.
A building collapses while
an explosion blows the night
apart. A master takes a slave,
a monk converts an Inca
in the breathless night of America.
Scientific language breaks apart
in the saliva of the mouth.
Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Koyannisqatsi (April 8, 1987), from Collected Poems, 2012
Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead and king of Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), lowest and northernmost section of the underworld: Aztec, sculptor unknown, recovered during excavation of the House of Eagles in the Templo Mayor: photo by Thelmadatter, 23 March 2008 (Museum of the Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
For the Love of God: sculpture by Damien Hirst, 2007, platinum cast of a human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds; displayed at White Cube Gallery, London, asking price 50 million pounds: photographer unknown, via Daily Telegraph
Máscara de Xiuhtecuhtli: representation of Xiuhtecuhtli (Lord Turquoise), Central Mexican god of fire: Mixtec-Aztec, c. 1400-1521, mosaic of turquoise inlay and other materials; photo by Manuel Parada López de Corselas, 2007 (British Museum, London)
Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Paramedics tend to a protester who was stabbed during the KKK rally in Anaheim. Many people at the park were demanding to know why police did not have a larger presence at the scene before the violence broke out.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, asks Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a question about his immigration proposal during a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos was later taken from the room: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
A security guard for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump removes Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos from a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos stood up and began to ask Trump about his immigration proposal: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
A security guard for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump removes Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, from a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos stood up and began to ask Trump about his immigration proposal: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
In Trumplandia: What chemicals have we forgotten?
Even though sales are neck and neck at the moment, there's no masking the facts. This Chinese factory is expecting a Donald Trump victory over his likely U.S. presidential rival Hillary Clinton — and it's already churning out the costumes. Photo via @ReutersUS: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 27 May 2016
This Chinese mask factory is betting
on a Trump victory over Clinton: image via Reuters Pictures Verified
account @reuterspictures, 27 May 2016
This Chinese mask factory is betting
on a Trump victory over Clinton: image via Reuters Pictures Verified
account @reuterspictures, 27 May 2016
This Chinese mask factory is betting on a Trump victory over Clinton: image via Reuters Pictures Verified account @reuterspictures, 27 May 2016
There's no masking Trump's popularity at this Chinese party business: image via Reuters World Verified account @ReutersWorld, 27 May 2016
There's no masking Trump's popularity at this Chinese party business: image via Reuters World Verified account @ReutersWorld, 27 May 2016
There's no masking Trump's popularity at this Chinese party business: image via Reuters World Verified account @ReutersWorld, 27 May 2016
This Chinese factory expects a Trump victory -- and they're getting ready: image via Reuters U.S. News Verified account @ReutersUS, 27 May 2016
This Chinese factory expects a Trump victory -- and they're getting ready: image via Reuters U.S. News Verified account @ReutersUS, 27 May 2016
Various Balinese Topeng (dance masks), Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta: photo by Gunawan Kartapranata, 2009
There is an unconscious propriety in the way in which, in all
European languages, the word person is commonly used to denote a
human being. The real meaning of persona is a mask, such
as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite
true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays
his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to
a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds
society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
Arthur Schopenhauer: Psychological Observations, from Studies in Pessimism in Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851 (translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders)
Zina Saro-Wiwa: The Invisible Man, 2015: image via Trestle Mask Makers @Trestle_Masks, 10 May 2016
Voted! Not in the mask. It was added afterwards. #KYPrimary #GoVoteKY #Fridaythe13th #mask: image via Carl @BrainOfBlood, 17 May 2016
Mask found in window of Bodie, California ghost town school house: photo by Tahoenathan, 2009
Masks in showcase of first aid supplies shop, Berlin: photo by Till Krech, 2006
MaskTV: photo by James Reynolds, 2006
Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead: Aztec, sculptor unknown; photo by Jamie Dwyer, 19 August 2008 (Museum of the Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
Joseph Ceravolo: Koyannisqatsi
April 8, 1987
among the big trees of the little city,
a dog walks his master in sun.
The trot of the wolf
walks inside the dog. Happiness
lights its eyes aslant with anxiety.
A building collapses while
an explosion blows the night
apart. A master takes a slave,
a monk converts an Inca
in the breathless night of America.
Scientific language breaks apart
in the saliva of the mouth.
Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead and king of Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), lowest and northernmost section of the underworld: Aztec, sculptor unknown, recovered during excavation of the House of Eagles in the Templo Mayor: photo by Thelmadatter, 23 March 2008 (Museum of the Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
For the Love of God: sculpture by Damien Hirst, 2007, platinum cast of a human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds; displayed at White Cube Gallery, London, asking price 50 million pounds: photographer unknown, via Daily Telegraph
Máscara de Xiuhtecuhtli: representation of Xiuhtecuhtli (Lord Turquoise), Central Mexican god of fire: Mixtec-Aztec, c. 1400-1521, mosaic of turquoise inlay and other materials; photo by Manuel Parada López de Corselas, 2007 (British Museum, London)
Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Paramedics tend to a protester who was stabbed during the KKK rally in Anaheim. Many people at the park were demanding to know why police did not have a larger presence at the scene before the violence broke out.: photo by Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2016
Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, asks Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a question about his immigration proposal during a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos was later taken from the room: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
A security guard for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump removes Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos from a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos stood up and began to ask Trump about his immigration proposal: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
A security guard for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump removes Miami-based Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, left, from a news conference Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa. Ramos stood up and began to ask Trump about his immigration proposal: photo by Charlie Niebergall/AP, 25 August 2015
Trumplandia es el horror -- Jorge Ramos
Lightning from a severe storm fills the sky behind a grain elevator in Belvue, Kansas: photo by Orlin Wagner/AP, 26 May 2016
Lightning from a severe storm fills the sky behind a grain elevator in Belvue, Kansas: photo by Orlin Wagner/AP, 26 May 2016
Lightning from a severe storm fills the sky behind a grain elevator in Belvue, Kansas: photo by Orlin Wagner/AP, 26 May 2016
Lightning from a severe storm fills the sky behind a grain elevator in Belvue, Kansas: photo by Orlin Wagner/AP, 26 May 2016
4 comments:
Joy Division: Disorder (live)
I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
It's a curious thing that what makes both Boris and Donald compelling figures is the wild aura of grotesquerie about them. Both of them born with masks.
"no electronics can soothe love"
Ceravolo always brings us back to the body as tender, needing and giving kindness: "the pleasures of a normal man".
You've given a glimpse of the space between the mask and the trembling face. Thank you, Tom
Many thanks, Duncan.
Yes, and odd how natural it should seem that Trump and Boris would fall into one another's latex arms, and our horrified laps, at "a time like this".
"... and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it."
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