c´est lundi matin

It is Monday Morning.

A week countdown until I am leaving for Paris.

photo by Alexandra Sherement

After months of planning, I am beginning to remember the images that initiated the decision to go in the first place. From the Paris underground...

Vague notions. 

It is simultaneously the easiest and hardest endeavor to travel across the drink having little to no plans.

Rotating sentiments of excitement and feeling terrified. 

Not doing is not an option.

photo by Alexandra Sherement

 "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail, it could mean derision. It could mean mochery, isolation. Isolation is the gift, all others are a test of your endurance of how much you really want to do it. and you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter. its the only good fight there is. "        

Charles Bukowski

1. “Change is not pleasant, But change is constant. Only when we change and grow, We’ll see a world we never know.” ~From Wisdom of The Orange Woodpecker 

2.      You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ~ Sri Ram

3.          Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and 

             pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning." 

— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

photo by Alexandra Sherement

~*~8~*~

This was lots and lots of fun and I love the aesthetic:

http://www.shermansculpture.com/FashionSteampunk.html

Tera, Alan, and I

~fin~

Vortex Appearing

VORTEX.

By EZRA POUND.

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          The vortex is the point of maximum energy.
         It represents, in mechanics, the greatest efficiency.
         We use the words “greatest efficiency” in the precise sense—as they would be used in a text book of MECHANICS.
         You may think of man as that toward which perception moves. You may think of him as the TOY of circumstance, as the plastic substance RECEIVING impressions.
         OR you may think of him as DIRECTING a certain fluid force against circumstance, as CONCEIVING instead of merely observing and reflecting.

THE PRIMARY PIGMENT.

         The vorticist relies on this alone; on the primary pigment of his art, nothing else.
         Every conception, every emotion presents itself to the vivid consciousness in some primary form.
         It is the picture that means a hundred poems, the music that means a hundred pictures, the most highly energized statement, the statement that has not yet SPENT itself it expression, but which is the most capable of expressing.

Free Energy and Free Thinking

Paper Illustrated Inspiration

Tunnel 

In the dream last night I was going about what seemed like my usual life. I have my green bag (such an appendage that I dream about it) and am looking into one of the small front pockets for something, and a tunnel appears there…that goes on and on….and fills the entirety of my vision and attention. It is fleshy looking and pretty creepy. It's quick paced and I am moving down through it and suddenly there is a head coming toward me faster and faster..which looks up and there is a face coming toward me faster and faster…the mouth on which begins to open…and open wider and wider and wider as it is coming at me and then…I am swallowed. Back to my usual life and scenarios…going about my business…and yet this tunnel keeps on appearing in random places all of a sudden. In a cup or a cabinet, maybe…in a box, on a screen…anywhere I suddenly glance for a moment looking for something else it may be there and suck me in. And it keeps happening…I am presented with this scenario. After a while I begin to hear this woman's voice in the back of my head (it really literally sounded like it was coming from the back on my head) saying something like "don't back down, keep moving forward, don't be afraid…you have to swallow them before they swallow you". And I am in the tunnel and see a face coming at me and so I open wider…and wider….and wider.

DIY Artshow & Titwrench Vendor's Table

Click on Me

Liza and I being drawl geeks and sellin' our creations at Titwrench III