tralfamadorian vacation

Hi! this is a great cave i found to conduct the coven in..it gets a little steamy but the perplex cube protects us a little. Anyway I've been on holidays and planes and hopping around time and space and then I remembered Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse 5 and hazy episodes of star trek where the notion of fourth dimensions and simultaneous time and eternal recurrences and... Neitzche going nuts and throwing his arms around the horse and weeping ahhh...oh oops i got a little off point...anyway I had a good trip!..Lets look at some snaps

this is the apartment i was staying in...it had portals which allowed you to experience everything simultaneously which was quite handy being a tourist an all... 

  mazes, labyrinths,warps..especially big, impressive, rusty steel ones such as this, are cool. I had the good fortune to walk in Richard Serra's latest labyrinth recently (slightly different from one pictured here). The main impact it had it had on me after the initial marvelling at its engineering ingenuity, bigness etc was the effect of disorientation and lofty permeations on space,time continuems. I also remembered i like the feeling of being lost and well you know, slightly altered. A literal gravitas. I am happy to say that it has lingered..or maybe was actually just re remembered from the future... hehe i will stop being annoying soon ....

this is optically annoying...and an "illusion".

Stanley Kubrick "The Shining" Still,

this is optically annoying and creepy...

this is an op art poster for Alfred Hitchcocks "Vertigo",1958...and annoying because its a shitty reproduction

Remember this scene where they go to the redwood forest and Kim Novak points to the circles of time on the tree and says "Here I was born and here I died. It was only a moment. You took no notice"

who could not fall in love with such a morbid and mysterious lady? These two film still are actually not from Vertigo but Chris Marker film "San Soleil"...where memory and these spirals of time are beautifully played out.

spirals of time, simultaneous time, unstuck time, great hairstyles, resemblance, doubles, mirroring, deja vu, the uncanny....recurrence

David Lynch, "Mullholland Drive" Still, 2001

How beautifully these themes are also realised in so many David Lynch films.... lets fall down some more rabbit holes and arty portals.....accompanied by an extract from The Garden of Forking Paths by Borges. Ok ready? Whizzz

Dan Flavin "Untitled(to the "innovator" of Wheeling Peachblow) 1968

"an infinite series of times, in a growing dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times

Still Spotting NYC, 2011 a collaboration between the composer Arvo Part and the architectural firm, Snohetta. 

This network of times which approached one another

Lee Bontecou, "Untitled" 1961

forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries

On Kawara "I got up.." 1970

We do not exist in the majority of these times....

In some you exist, and not I

Joseph Chinard, "Bust of a Man" c. 1790-95

In others I, and not you

Balthus, "The Mountain", detail, 1936-37

In others, both of us

In the present one, which favourable fate has granted me, you arrived at my house,

Alex Katz, Gavin Browns Enterprise,2011

George Maciunas, "Photographic Ballet" Fluxus Concert, Fluxhall, 359 Canal Street, New York, 1964

In another, while crossing the garden, you found me dead

In still another, I utter these same words.....

but I am a mistake, a ghost." 

 that was fun..lets do it soon ok? Amor fati.