text: 'At first art is play
and eventually we
gain sufficient skill'
Squiggling down from mid-top-centre-stage-left
a line descends, and curls first to the left,
slowly losing squiggliness, and become just
curvey and does a grace full loop down from
left to right, almost horizontal to the left,
and then some-what tigtly back to the right
and upward. It crosses back down itself, and
after briefly imitating Ayer's Rock in
Australlia (i think this must be Shella, btw)
she then regains her squigglyness but, never
reaches looping again, and then, like an
inverted half-open safety pin, stops abruptly
without even a final dot.
Around her last bit of curviness, a flock of
8 "v"'s point in to watch her gracefull curves
flowing past...
Joining, them at the bottom (near where she
starts her final safety-pin Kimp) two-almost
meeting lines form a V and they lead down,
spreading wide (and hence enclosing a lot of
space) the approach to the right - almost
formaing a right triange, the the hypothenuse
is jotty, and then the base of the triange
swings curvi-linearly upward, they zig and
zag, crossing each other in classic
pseudo-fractal style (this is of course G&G
who often give rise to the leaf and angular
fractal emanations) finally, they form a
closed loop joining in the cusp of a
valentine heart.
Off of this, is of course the half-question
mark (played today, by (i think) by A. Coil
- the actor), as the loop towards where the
dot under the question mark would be a fan sits
to the right and swirlingly pushes the water
drops coming from the bottom of question mark
down into a flask that borders, down and to
the left on the side of the altitude line
(the up-down line) of the would-be right
triangle.
Below all of this is the assertion of TIME
(always to be expected on these occasions).
Reading the GLYPHS left to right we have:
A circle with a large "+" sign in the middle
of it - going towards the periphery, but not
touching it by any means. We are clued into
the fact that it IS a clock by the additon
of two small dash lines, radially outward
from the centre, but mainly hanging out
at the edge.
A sharp, strict - almost perfectly straight
line cuts down - ogviously the "mark" of
demarcation; and clearly a tribute by the
artist to both G. Spenser Brown (the student
of Bertrand Russell who deciphered the "i am
lying" paradox) and of course to the late,
great Jacques Derridda.
Next, is a badly made rectangle (obviously
an intention by the artist to draw into stark
relief his own style and counter-poise it
a-twixt time and space with the works of
Lodovicio and Leonardo). Inside the box,
four Greek lettes appear: t (tau), i (iota),
m (mue), and s (sigma - upper case). The
fact that upper-case Sigma looks like the
upper-case "E" in the Roman alphabet, is
used to clearly spell the word "time".
Next two lines lead upward - one at the top
from about the center of the rectangle - but
not touching it - to the right and upward,
the other, mirroring it goes downward and
to the left.
And then in a briliant stroke (clearly in
imitation of the classical Rensaissance style)
an EQUALS SIGN !!
this leads into two } { marks made larger than
the marks previously and finally,
a funnel, from which appear drops of water - much
larger than those w/the fan above. And they drift
down towards a sea of waves at that dominate the
entire bottom of the picture plane. Except, of
course with the text to the FAR RIGHT.
It is at this point, that the electric cord
from the fan that cuts the right side of the
drawing in half (mostly) goes off and the
plug stops in mid air.
A sine wave (wave suqiggle) goes off and upward
to the right, and turns into an arrow pointing
to the symbols
c o (lower-case) sigma
(ie, COS - as in cosine. Although many adherents
to sexual intermpretations of Georgia O'Keef's
flowers, would say that the "sigma" is definitaly
penile in nature, in fact, you can see the vas differens!!!
)
MEANWHILE
The bottom of the electical plug starts as a mobile
(which oddly enough actually IS a reference to Nigel
Caulder or at least Alexander).
On the left arc, a "caged" SEVEN (7) is,
On the right, two branches arc to clearly
cartoon references to Ziggy's nose (on the
lower-left) and a soup ladle used in the
"Our Bording House" with "Wimpole" from
the 1930's comic.
Down, below in bed, a very picca-chu-like
character lies in a badly drawn bed, with
odd lines radiating out (five) - the central
most of one leads up toe a clearly made
question mark.
Below the electrical cord, the text continues:
[sufficient skill] to Simply
R
play - of couse one
^
shouldn't
ever run w/ sciscore'
or near a
dear's bed.
WELL! I never! If that's supposed to be a deer! Then,
i've had it with this non-sense!!!
Where's my check!!!????
(goes out slamming door - gonight all)
-- Ghost World,
exit music on infinite repeat...
Frank - still have many, many decimal points to choose
from despire our recent, very-successful sale!
And new shipments of the latest styles in
decimal points arriving this next week!!!