Saturday 21 May 2011

having breath

installation view

bow tie, pencil on bone

rib cage, pencil on bone

skull cap, pencil on bone

don't lose hope, pencil on vellum

joko, pencil on paper

john, yoko, adam and eve, pencil on paper

nothing more, pencil on vellum

pipilotti rist, sip my ocean




Friday 13 May 2011

april 18

the slime of all my yesterdays
rots in the hollow of my skull



and if my stomach would contract
because of some explicable phenomenon
such as pregnancy or constipation



I would not remember you


or that because of sleep
infrequent as a moon of greencheese
that because of food
nourishing as violet leaves
that because of these



and in a few fatal yards of grass
in a few spaces of sky and treetops

a future was lost yesterday
as easily and irretrievably
as a tennis ball at twilight








john and yoko




two virgins



john and yoko

Monday 9 May 2011

adam and eve

'That night, God took a rib from Adam's side and made a woman.  When Adam awoke the following morning, he found a wife, Eve, lying asleep beside him.  Adam was so happy.  He took her hand and she woke up.  She looked up at him and smiled.'



Saturday 7 May 2011

domestic stones














The feet of morning the feet of noon and the feet of evening
walk ceaselessly round pickled buttocks
on the other hand the feet of midnight remain motionless
in their echo-woven baskets

consequently the lion is a diamond

on the sofas made of bread
are seated the dressed and the undressed
the undressed hold leaden swallows between their toes
the dressed hold leaden nests between their fingers
at all hours the undressed get dressed again
and the dressed get undressed
and exchange the leaden swallows for the leaden nests

consequently the tail is an umbrella

a mouth opens within another mouth
and within this mouth another mouth
and within this mouth another mouth
and so on without end
it is a sad perspective
which adds an I-don't-know-what
to another I-don't-know-what

consequently the grasshopper is a column

the pianos with heads and tails
place pianos with heads and tails
on their heads and their tails

consequently the tongue is a chair

jean hans arp