Summer dreams again
Close to the sea, boats and fresh wind, salt water and warm rocks.....
07 March 2007
My summer plans...
© Kim Dauer ... to stroll along the water front and get stones between my toes ...
... to hopefully visit friends' summer places and have a good time ...
... to eat herring, to drink snaps and sing loudly and falsely ...
(... and be surprised by the sudden summer rain ...)
... to grill aubergines under a parasolle ...
.... with aromatic smells from the both the fire and the rain ...
... take take a midnight chilling bath ...(... maybe in the nude ...)
© Kim Dauer ... to go swiftly swiftly in my motor boat ...
(... and maybe take of the safety vest ...
... for a short while when nobody sees ...)
... that's my summer plans!
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
peace & acorns
Soon enough we will have acorns again -- which little boys love to gather, and little dogs get stuck in their paws . . .
06 March 2007
Oh no, It's raining again...
Oh, it's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
And you know it's hard to pretend
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend
Oh no, it's raining again
Oh will my heart ever mend
You're old enough some people say
To read the signs and walk away
It's only time that heals the pain
And makes the sun come out again
Lyrics: Supertramp
05 March 2007
04 March 2007
a life reconstructed III
...and as a young wife economised by making her own clothes and
was careful about nutrition. there is no sign that there were ever
any children. the house soon will be torn down..../GC
THE END
03 March 2007
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a life reconstructed II
...she loved music and dancing, and met Eric at the dance club where she
had many friends. she married Eric, and as a young wife economised by
making her own clothes and... /GC
to be continued...
02 March 2007
a life reconstructed I
in a small valise in an abandoned house, i found these rememrances
of Lyla. she was 13 years old in 1955, had a free portrait taken at a
supermarket opening. she was accomplished with horses, and sang
at the church. she read novels, some about heroic nurses, some racier.
she loved music and dancing, and met Eric at the dance club where she
had many friends. she married Eric, and as a young wife economised by
making her own clothes and was careful about nutrition. there is no sign
that there were ever any children. the house soon will be torn down.
/GC
to be continued...
01 March 2007
28 February 2007
invited guest: Risk Hazekamp
01. Giant - 2001 - 160x104 cmRisk Hazekamp is an artist based in Rotterdam who works primarily
with photography and video. In her work, the language of Hollywood
is directly engaged. Often the works take the issue of gender by the
horns, quite literally in some cases since the images of “the West”,
cowboys and all the baggage that they carry in terms of gender and
media constructions of gender, are prevalent.
In works that use the figure, disturbingly familiar clothing and landscape
to deconstruct –or perhaps reconstruct- the idealised images of maleness
and femaleness, Risk’s work often exists in a state of ambivalent
“femanliness”. Is she seeking to attain the perfect image of a lesbian
Marlboro woman with tinges of a female James Dean? Or is she asking
us to think about how Hollywood manipulates us? And does the bullfighter
imagery challenge the sexist swagger of Hemingway or reflect a blatant
admiration? Sometimes it is difficult to tell and perhaps one does not need
to since therein lies the power of the work to arrest.
In more recent works, the issue of gender and personal identity is tackled
even more directly as bearded androgens –she has moved into using models
in addition to casting herself in her work- populate portraiture, video and
what appear to be stills from films. Interestingly enough, whereas the earlier
work that uses the language of Hollywood and Risk’s apparent
(and perhaps desired) resemblance to a young James Dean, the new works
have a strong European cinema feeling to them. “Giant” (2001) pulls no
punches in referencing a mainstream Hollywood classic whereas
“Liberté Pour Tous” (2005) could be a still from a cult French film
that never got made.
It is not necessarily pedantic to insist that these works are much more
about the relationship between personal identity and gender than about
sexual identity. Of course, sexuality is a key aspect of personal identity.
However, whereas artists like Del LaGrace Volcano have trod similar
ground in terms of content, these works do not shock and amaze because
of what someone might do with her body, but far more who she might
“be” deep within herself.
text by Ken Pratt, July 2006
invited by ulf fågelhammar
02. Mira - 2002 - 100x150 cm.
03. Smoke Dreams - 2004 - 72x135 cm.
04. Risk - 2005 - 100x80 cm
05. Liberté - 2005 - 120x96 cm.
06. ¡Vale! - 2006 - 95x120 cm.
07. Macho - 2006 - 90x120 cm.
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