Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Come to think about it..

 "At five years old , mortals are not prepared to be citizens of the world, to be stimulated by 
abstract nouns, to soar above preference into impartiality; and that prejudice in favor of milk 
with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished at least 
for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot 
of stars belonging to one's own homestead."

Daniel Derondo
George Eliot





Monday, December 19, 2011

CHALKBOARD





"Do I contradict myself? very well then,
  I contradict myself.
  I am large, I contain multitudes."
Walt Withman


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MET MOMENT










CANOVA


ANTONIO CANOVA
1757-1822

Plaster model for Cubid and Psyche (1794)
 Cubid, lover of the mortal Psyche holds a light over his 
sleeping body, for which she is punished by Aphrodite.
The scene conveyed by this modello is of Psyche being
rescued in Cubid's embrace

Exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art



MET MOMENT




Wednesday, December 14, 2011

PENCERE 3

'My dear  Monsieur Duroy, for me a man  in love no longer exist.
He becomes an idiot and a dangereous idiot at that. I stop having
any close relationship with man who love me or claim to, first
because they bore me and secondly because I feel as suspicious
of them as I would  of a mad dog that may suddenly  have a fit.
So, I put hem in quarantine until they've got over their attack.
Don't forget that. 
I know perfectly well that for you a love is merely  a sort of appetite
whereas for me it would be  more  a sort of... of...of communion
of souls which doesn't exist in male 's religion. You understand
the letter and I understand the spirit. But....look at me please...'

Guy de Mapassant
Bel -Ami





SMO 2011 ©

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Andrew Topolski


Andrew Topolski



1952-2008

WALL BELL, 1989



EN5
ANDREW TOPOLSKI
PETER SHINODA
JEFF BACON
SELIM OZALP

XXVII
 The particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four
divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely,
safely, pleasantly a painful twitching of the eyelids or say a pencil
sharpened at one end , dwarfs the imagination, makes logic a butterfly,
offers a finality that sends us spinning through space, a fixity the mind could climb forever
a revolving mountain, a complexity with a surface of glass; the gist of poetry. D.C. al fin.

Imaginations
 William Carlos Williams

Sunday, November 27, 2011

John Hejduk




Cathedral, Model 1996 Collection CCA



House of the Painter 1984, Painted Wood Model Collection CCA

Hole in The Wall


 SMO ©

"...A virginity which, in its solitude, faced with the transparency of a commensurate gaze, has itself
been as it were fragmented into its component whiteness, one upon the next, the wedding proofs of the Idea. "

Language, Literature & Aesthetics "
Mallarme in Prose
edited by
Mary Ann Caws

Saturday, November 26, 2011






































Photo: Selim M. Ozalp ©

To Earth
Be earnest, Earth,- and kind.
This flower that opened  in the storm
Has fallen with the after -hush.
Be earnest, Earth, - and kind.

Hart Crane

Nazim Hikmet








GIDERAYAK

Giderayak  islerim var bitirilecek,
                                                 giderayak.

Ceylani kurtardim avcinin elinden
ama daha baygin yatar ayilamadi.
Kopardim portakali dalindan
ama kabugu soyulmadi.
Oldum yildizlarla hasir nesir
ama sayisi bir tamam sayilmadi.
kuyudan cektim suyu
ama bardaklara konulamadi
Guller dizildi tepsiye
ama tasdan fincan oyulmadi
Sevdalara doyulmadi
Giderayak islerim var bitirilecek,
                                                 giderayak.

***
Departing

Before departing,  I have things to complete,
                                                   before departing.

I saved the deer  from a hunter,
still lay on the ground unconscience. 
I pick the orange from  the branch
still not pill off the skin.
I have acquainted with the stars
still not accounted their numbers.
I draw water from the well
still not poured the glasses.
Roses lined up on the plate
still not carved cup from the stone.
I am not fulfil with the love
before departing,  I have things to complete,
                                                 before departing.


Translation: Selim M. Ozalp

Pillars


Selim Ozalp, 2011 ©

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Gao Xing Jian





Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
GAO XINGJIAN, The Other Shore










Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Tribeca, NYC 2011

'Good night, Nana...now, Nana, be a good girl...'
Zola, L'asommoir

Junction / Cycle




 Photo: Selim  M. Ozalp
Art Work: Richard Serra, Junction / Cycle , Gagosian Galery, NY 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

SHODOW PLAY & KARAGOZ / HACIVAT



Those images brought back an ancient childhood memory,
the days predated the  TV's , and  certainly cyberspace..
an ancient shadow play broadcast on the radio, the years must be late 50's
the place is Istanbul,Turkey. After the dinners 
 family gathered in the form of  a half a circle in front of the Radio,
we all focused on the voice of announcer
 now dialogs of wise and witty exchanges between the two
rather peculiar chartecters named
KARAGOZ & HACIVAT  was on the air....
.


Karagöz (meaning blackeye in Turkish) and Hacivat ( shortened in time from "Hacı Ä°vaz" meaning "Ä°vaz the Pilgrim", and also sometimes written as Hacivad) are the lead characters of the traditional Turkish shadow play, popularized during the Ottoman period. The central theme of the plays are the contrasting interaction between the two main characters. They are perfect foils of each other: Karagöz represents the illiterate but straightforward public, whereas Hacivat belongs to the educated class, speaking Ottoman Turkish and using a poetical and literary language. Although Karagöz has definitely been intended to be the more popular character with the Turkish peasantry, Hacivat is always the one with a level head. Though Karagöz always outdoes Hacivat’s superior education with his “native wit,” he is also very impulsive and his never-ending deluge of get-rich-quick schemes always results in failure. Hacivat continually attempts to “domesticate” Karagöz, but never makes progress. According to Turkish dramaturge Kırlı, Hacivat emphasizes the upper body with his refined manners and aloof disposition, while Karagöz is more representational of “the lower body with eating, cursing, defecation and the phallus."[1] Karagöz-Hacivat plays are especially associated with Ramadan. Until the rise of radio and film, it was one of the most popular forms of entertainment in Turkey. It survives today mainly in a toned-down form intended for audiences of children.[1] *
*SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

John Hejduk


Studio for a Painter by John Hejduk. Photograph by Siegfried Buker.
via Architectures Winter 1985