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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust. ↗
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. ↗
Airplane Dream #13' told the story, more or less, of a dream Rosa had had about the end of the world. There were no human beings left but her, and she had found herself flying in a pink seaplane to an island inhabited by sentient lemurs. There seemed to be a lot more to it -- there was a kind of graphic "sound track" constructed around images relating to Peter Tchaikovsky and his works, and of course abundant food imagery -- but this was, as far as Joe could tell, the gist. The story was told entirely through collage, with pictures clipped from magazines and books. There were pictures from anatomy texts, an exploded musculature of the human leg, a pictorial explanation of peristalsis. She had found an old history of India, and many of the lemurs of her dream-apocalypse had the heads and calm, horizontal gazes of Hindu princes and goddesses. A seafood cookbook, rich with color photographs of boiled crustacea and poached whole fish with jellied stares, had been throughly mined. Sometimes she inscribed text across the pictures, none of which made a good deal of sense to him; a few pages consisted almost entirely of her brambly writing, illuminated, as it were, with collage. There were some penciled-in cartoonish marginalia like the creatures found loitering at the edges of pages in medieval books. ↗
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗
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Era deste jaez (feliz palavra árabe, cada vez menos usada e cujo significado vem em todos os dicionários e bela expressão tão rafada em tempo de letras mais bojudas, que qualquer escritor, com uma única excepção, hesitaria em usá-la), era deste jaez, dizia (fórmula de repetição também recuperada do arsenal literário e que se destina a evitar que a atenção do leitor se distraia e comece a pensar noutras coisas, nanja no essencial), dizia (embora antes seja meu dever chamar a atenção para este magnífico "nanja", que não é de origem japonesa, mas sim de etimologia facilmente descortinável) e tendo-me eu esquecido da continuação da frase vou retomá-la, desde o início com vossa licença. ↗
