tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2122175891915182704..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Walter Benjamin: In the Stone ForestUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15281967448879999632011-06-12T12:47:56.377-07:002011-06-12T12:47:56.377-07:00Tom,
Thanks for that, she's better (happily), ...Tom,<br />Thanks for that, she's better (happily), turning back toward the light -- and my sister and her two girls (Johnny's cousins -- Simone 22 (just half way between Oona and Johnny, as she told him) and Natette 19 -- were there), so we had a grand time, and will see them again tomorrow when they come out for a Bolinas stay. . . .<br /><br />6.12 <br /><br />grey white clouds against invisible top<br />of ridge, quails calling back and forth<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> related to other repetition,<br /> detail more realistic<br /><br /> turn back to word, “to call,”<br /> what is it that calls <br /><br />grey white clouds reflected in channel, <br />sunlit green canyon of ridge across itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14582370521782237282011-06-12T00:34:09.420-07:002011-06-12T00:34:09.420-07:00Sorry to hear that, Steve.
I'm afraid the
s...Sorry to hear that, Steve.<br /><br />I'm afraid the <br /><br />subject matter within<br /><br />is always there, gaining on us.<br /><br />(But not on Johnny, no.)<br /><br /><br />Ed,<br /><br />Yes, that too was in the back of my mind.<br /><br />She must be the life of the place.<br /><br /><br /><br />You have a fine eye, Artemesia. Indeed I believe Albertus's illustration of Death playing chess from Täby kyrka -- the church is located just north of Stockholm -- was the direct inspiration for the Bergman film. Albertus the painter actually appears as a character in the film, played by Gunnar Olsson. We see him in a dialogue with Jöns, Antonius Block's squire, while working on a church mural.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69433013780814834512011-06-11T11:25:44.293-07:002011-06-11T11:25:44.293-07:00I wonder if Albertus Pictor's Death Playing Ch...I wonder if Albertus Pictor's Death Playing Chess didn't inspire:<br /><br />"The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death, who has come to take his life. Bergman developed the film from his own play Wood Painting."<br /><br />It seems more than coincidental..or perhaps just another "iconic idea."<br /><br />Thanks for all the wonderful images!<br />AArtemesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06120821017998835883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63631156103002385302011-06-11T06:46:18.084-07:002011-06-11T06:46:18.084-07:00Tom,
Thanks for this -- we're still alive, bu...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for this -- we're still alive, but for how long? And then what? Johnny and I are going over to visit my mother today, who's taken another turn this week (how long will she be here?). . . <br /><br />6.11<br /><br />pink orange of clouds above black plane<br />of ridge, quails calling back and forth<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> construct position, picture<br /> subject matter within<br /><br /> as material, object surface,<br /> number 12 on the left<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />line of pelicans gliding toward horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36947192275771166072011-06-11T06:17:53.211-07:002011-06-11T06:17:53.211-07:00ahh you've discovered justwhereStoneGirl res...ahh you've discovered justwhereStoneGirl resides:<br /><br />http://www.rtoddking.com/chinasum2000_km_sf.htm<br /><br />and still after all of these years<br /><br />whenever I pass (by) a cemetery I mutter:<br /><br />"people are dyeing to get into that place"<br /><br /><br />as for any fear of death ?<br /><br />I am guessing that the greatest fear is that when dead no-one will you or what you did ...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com