A TRIBUTE TO CESARE PAVESE

From Mimmo Paladino, inspired by the book LA LUNA E I FALO (The moon and the fire)

THE DEGENERATED SLEEPERS

Several stages of a larger painting, inspired by one of the first «shocking» novels by the Flemish writer Ward Ruyslinck, published in 1957.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Ruyslinck

I WAS BORN IN A CLOUD

A5 painted envelope based on the SNOWFLAKE song by Kate Bush from the album 50 WORDS FOR SNOW;
mailed to Theresa Williams, USA

BLUESETTE

Small painted envelope as tribute to a jazz standard by Toots Thielemans
mailed to Henning Mittendorf in Germany

BLINDED

Postcard size painting inspired by the song
«Blinded, all pride aside, I was blinded»
from Geike Arnaert; album «In the beauty of confusion»

EXPECTING A STAR

Collages by Guido Vermeulen around a short text by Ginger Mayerson, USA

She was expecting a baby.

“What are you having?” he wondered, watching the sunset.

“I think it’s going to be a star,” she said quietly, answering his thoughts.

He only smiled, caressing her head. She still looked like a girl—slim and lithe, her shoulders buried in a golden waterfall of hair.

Last time she gave birth to a wave. Emerald green—just like the color of her eyes—and it added music to the ocean.

“The ocean is silent on the inside and sounding on the outside,” she had said. “It needs music...” She had not known she was pregnant with the wave.

The complete text of this short story can be read on
http://wapshottpress.com/about-the-wapshott-press/fiction-journals/storylandia-issn-1947-5349/issue-6/

AT THE TIER GARDEN

Small painted envelope for David Stone around another fragment from his poem The crystal Band

At the Tier garden
some animals bred
stranger than thought
could ever bear

THE BYPASS

Large painted envelope for Eniko Lini and Emil Dobriban in Romania
around a short poem inspired by David Stone’s ongoing BLACKBIRD project

The bypass of the night

liberates coaldust energy

dark oxygen to blind the crows

and ravens without any inner sight

FROG HAIKU

From Reiko Fuji, USA

intellectual

In a few lines

From Muriel Frega, Argentina

A FLUXRUS FAIRY TALE BY SVETLANA

From Svetlana Pesetskaya, Russia

THE CRYSTAL BAND

Small painted envelope around a quote from a new poem by David Stone
From The crystal Band:

«Hounds smelled the flesh
of old sea monsters.»

First to see POEM

by John Bennett, USA

TRIBUTE TO HENRI MICHAUX

8 pages A5 portrait size contribution to artist VISPO book on which artists have influenced you in your life: I choose Henri Michaux, each page connected with letter of his name and a quote I translated from the French

Drugs bore us with their promised paradise.
That they give us wisdom instead because we are not living
a century away from paradise.
Henri Michaux


Once I was a word that tried to move with the speed of thought
Henri Michaux

I started drawing to liberate myself from words
Henri Michaux


In the night in the night I was one with the night
in a night without limits in the night
Henri Michaux


It is wrong to think that thought can be expressed by words.
They are not satisfactory ways of expressions!
Gestures, mime, sounds, lines and colors,
those are primitive, pure and direct ways of expression.
Henri Michaux


Draw without any particular intention,
doodle machinewise,
almost always faces appear on paper
Henri Michaux


Mankind, look to yourself in the mirror of paper
Henri Michaux


Faces of childhood, faces that do not believe
that everything is solved by the passage to becoming adult
Henri Michaux

IN THE GARDEN POEMS

Booklet edition of 32 with 12 poems by Amanda Rossmiller, USA

Rumpelstiltskin‘s Daughter

A short story by Fleur Helsingor, USA, artist book

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

Large painted envelope (inspired by Milan Kundera’s novel) I made for Kerri Pullo, USA

HAIKU for MICHE

Small painted envelope for Miche van Den Broeck in Belgium

Uit mijn hoofd stijgen
op gedachten als vliegen
graag en stervensklaar