James: Hmmm ... I guess you are right, it does look like a shell... I hadn't thought of that before, but now this seems like a clever follow-up to the beach in the previous post :-)
james the title of your post summarises the picture.
the photo itself has so many layers. although it is fungus, it has an element to it that looks like a shell and then there is also the possibility of petrification due to trunk to which it is attached.
is this not like our characters? layered, hidden yet visible, raw and somewhat differently interpreted by each passerby...
Claire: Thank you for such a thoughtful reading of this image. This layering and ambiguity that you see is very close to the way I would like my pictures to be received....
i am intrigued by this picture... from all the possible interpretations, right now i am thinking: an offering, for an invisible deity, who perhaps bears no name and will never be known through rite or revelation, yet pervades everything.
Only where there is language is there world. --Martin Heidegger
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The word that fits would mime the genesis. --Michel Deguy
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Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
... that a whole world of lament arose, in which
all nature reappeared: forest and valley,
road and village, field and stream and animal;
and that around this lament-world, even as
around the other earth, a sun revolved
and a silent, star-filled heaven, a lament-
heaven, with its own, disfigured stars ...
Ein Klage-Himmel, "a lament-heaven," from Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes." Poetry's post-rupture, post-lapsus, post-death-of-Eurydice dream of recreating that primal world -- Eden, childhood, Orpheus's singing -- where word and thing were one.
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Very interesting picture. It sort of reminds me of a giant shell.
James: Hmmm ... I guess you are right, it does look like a shell... I hadn't thought of that before, but now this seems like a clever follow-up to the beach in the previous post :-)
james the title of your post summarises the picture.
the photo itself has so many layers. although it is fungus, it has an element to it that looks like a shell and then there is also the possibility of petrification due to trunk to which it is attached.
is this not like our characters? layered, hidden yet visible, raw and somewhat differently interpreted by each passerby...
Claire: Thank you for such a thoughtful reading of this image. This layering and ambiguity that you see is very close to the way I would like my pictures to be received....
i am intrigued by this picture... from all the possible interpretations, right now i am thinking: an offering, for an invisible deity, who perhaps bears no name and will never be known through rite or revelation, yet pervades everything.
Roxana: How do you always...?
I have been thinking that this picture's secret title is "the chalice" -- but you say what this means better than I could....
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