Sunday, October 01, 2006

On the subject of two...


Kazimir Malevich



Vasily Vereschagin


Two Russian Paintings

This presents
significant rubbish
when from reading
that angels height and mass
makes plastic dreams

a really scary occurrence
the northerners think
they're European
bold enough to make
hanging black squares
in white rooms
seem mildly patriotic
—what would've Lenin
thought?


As to be read
this must have
a conversation? in pieces?
what a mess of fingers that
never seem to stop bleeding.

Under the sky—
or if you would prefer
"all things steal shadow" still
intentionally bludgeoned,
uprooting the distinctions,
so that we all know Tretyakov
beckons us to hang on
a meadow of corpses
dust for now.




2 comments:

csperez said...

yo, i love these pieces! great form also ...

would you be down for an ekphrastic collaboration ... we choose one painting and you write the left column, ill write the right ... whaddaya think?

mephistofales said...

Certainlly, if you have a painting in mind, then go ahead and begin... otherwise let me mull it over fora second and I'll come up with something...

but it has to be two paintings, as there are two images to contrast, but I guess it could be equally as interesting if it were just 1 painting and there are two voice to discuss it... yes...