Ustad Ali Akbar Khan....RIP

Rikki Ducornet's Desires

Desirous 1







Desirous 5




RD photo by Forrest Gander
Images courtesy of the Pierre Menard Gallery

The Mazzariello Labyrinth

Created by Helena Mazzariello, a Montclair sculptor and psychic, as "a gift to the world".... The labyrinth was built during spring equinox in 1990 in an area Mazzariello routinely took her goats to graze...
















Re.: Sibley labyrinths:

http://www.druidry.org/obod/sacred_sites/ca_mazes.html

http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/artsentertainment/tp/bayarealabyrinths.htm



All photos by the Passionate Ornithologist

Zoviet France

A 1996 live performance from Zoviet France.

Up in the Hills Near Home

Richard Tagett (Canessa Gallery, SF)

Born on the 14th of February 1936, I began writing poetry in earnest with the emergence of Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.

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By Columbus Day 1961 we were in San Francisco where I was dying to meet Jack Spicer, and I soon found myself in a workshop with him and Robin Blaser, Stan Persky, and George Stanley on Sunday afternoons at Stan’s place in North Beach.

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http://diogenessf.blogspot.com/

Forrest Bess

Born October 5, 1911, in Bay City, Texas, Forrest Bess lived his life there in virtual isolation, on a strip of land accessible only by boat.

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In Bess' study of mythology, alchemy, archaeology and religion he perceived the recurrence of many of the symbols in his own work; he became obsessed with investigating the mystery of this universal language. Eventually he concluded that this shared symbology held the key to the alchemists' quest for eternal life. Unlike others—Jung and the alchemists, for example—who had considered these images only in spiritual terms, Bess applied a physical interpretation to them. Beginning in the early fifties he came believe he had discovered the secret of immortality—androgyny, the conjunction of male and female, through actual physical transformation. Believing in the magic of symbols to stimulate the unconscious, Bess felt he could communicate this secret through the depiction of pertinent symbols; a vocabulary of images relating to his own interpretation of how this life-prolonging union of opposites might physically be effectuated appeared frequently throughout his work.




No. 40





The Crowded Mind






The Greek






Images and information courtesy of www.forrestbess.org