2004.01.14 18:46
Re: Holé
Pat asks:
Why was Napoleon's death embedded island so named Sainte Hélène? any Greek symbolism? Or just a mere coincidence of some shipper's imagination?
Steve replies:
The island was discovered by Portuguese on 21 May 1502. In our time, 21 May is the feast of St. Helena within the Greek Orthodox calendar, while 18 August is the feast of St. Helena within the Roman Catholic calendar. So, one could somewhat assume that the Portuguese that discovered St. Helena where then using a Greek Orthodox calendar. A case of somewhat informative symbolism?
2004.01.16
degrees of separation
Jim Williams relates to Napoleon, Russian royalty, and the author.
Franziska relates to the author via her cook and to Ludwig II via a musical and to Philipp le Beau.
Eva relates to Trumbauer-Greber-Abele via Whitemarsh, and thus to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Eva relates to Cardinal Dougherty and thus to the author as a quondam student of Cardinal Dougherty High School and as a filmer of "Stotesbury".
Ludwig II relates to the author via his schizophrenic brother Otto, and to Franziska via a musical. He also relates to Joseph Cornell and thus also to the author.
Napoleon relates to St. Helena via the island, to Jim Williams via the crest, and to the author because of gradually becoming...
Piranesi relates to Helena, Maria, the design of the Benj. Franklin Parkway, maybe Rubens because of Christ Mocked (Prison imagery), and to the author via two ichnographia.
Rubens relates to Helena, and to the paradigm shifting imperials, and to Great Hall of the PMA, and thus to the Parkway as well.
Maria relates to Piranesi and the Ichnographia Campus Martius, and to Honorius, Galla Placidia, and to Ambrose’s delivery of the Obituary of Theodosius.
Eutropia relates to Helena, the paradigm shifting imperials, and to Rubens.
Helena relates to Eutropia, the paradigm shifting imperials, Maria and Galla via their reenactments, Rubens via Santa Croce, Piranesi via various of his works, Napoleon via his exile.
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2004.01.16
"what is the book about?"
"The book is about ten characters coming together to write a post-humously famous novel." This idea occurred to me two nights ago. While I don’t think this idea is ultimately what the book will be "about", it nonetheless provides the type of vehicle through which a novel taking place in virtual space can function. The notion of each character being a virtual persona is indeed the original premise/idea for the book, so I want to remain as virtual as possible. I have to succeed at somehow portraying how the virtual realm functions. Right now, hypertext and hyperlinks are an architecture of the virtual realm, and so I might approach the “architecture” of the novel as one constructed of hypertext and hyperlinks.
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2004.01.16
list of self portraits
1. three panels 1983-4
2. second on the incomplete (Ding) series 1986
3. third self portrait on about a dozen strathmore boards (12" x 7.x") now within The Stone and the Flesh (A Cautious Hit) series and the one-off 48" square panel (1987?)
4. 5 panels of 20" x 30" Strathmore boards (1990)
5. text within Birth of Venus 3 1991
6. text within Birth of Venus 4 1991
7. text on some Schinkel plates (wall series) 1992?
8. the gallery self portrait 1994
9. the discus thrower text 1995? (also within schizophrenia + architectures)
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2004.01.17
art
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