Rob Ayling writes:
"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)
DINGLICHKEIT (Heidegger)
Shadow box upon our wall- knick-knacks inside
including
Egyptian napkin rings from the First World War
(the
power of objects -as totems,symbols,little real estate)
"Portable
property"as Wemmick says in Dickens saga.
Some objects are
innocent.Photographs,sketches,books-
all
with personal,familial ,collective contexts.Mute witnesses.
Their
testimony text.Wunderkammer like the Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Memento
mori(locks of hair),owned personal memorabilia-prized via
association.
Memento
hominem-Joseph Cornell's shadow box art-significant only via
construction
Fiction
and fact blur in memoirs.(as in all art!)Kemal,Fusun,Pamuk,Laika..all
merge
Aristotle's
idea of time as a link between objects (as in our own lives)
Immortality?
Collections
of Nothing inverts memorabilia and collectibles.Bye,bye antique
roadshow!
Harmonious
assemblage of divergent phenomena.Why do we
collect-people?objects?ideas?
As
Taha Muhammad Ali shared in WARNING-"Trust me:/my happiness bears no relation to
happiness"
Collection.Obsession.Inventories.Writing.Accountancy.Sumeria.Assyria.Egypt.Objects
in a tomb/after
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