Grape Lights

Cannot wait to see this....

Patrick Bokanowski's La femme qui se poudre (1972)

Julio Cortázar Axolotl (1956) There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl. I got to them by chance one spring morning when Paris was spreading its peacock tail after a wintry Lent. I was heading down the boulevard Port-Royal, then I took Saint-Marcel and L'Hôpital and saw green among all that grey and remembered the lions. I was friend of the lions and panthers, but had never gone into the dark, humid building that was the aquarium. I left my bike against tbe gratings and went to look at the tulips. The lions were sad and ugly and my panther was asleep. I decided on the aquarium, looked obliquely at banal fish until, unexpectedly, I hit it off with the axolotls. I stayed watching them for an hour and left, unable to think of anything else. In the library at Sainte-Geneviève, I consulted ...

Margaret Tait's stunningly beautiful A Portrait of Ga (1952). -Thanks to der Blue Angel for pointing this short film out to me

ぜんまい少女箱人形 Windup Girl Dolls in a Box (ぜんまい少女箱人形), by Takato Yamamoto (2004). Takato Yamamoto feels like Aubrey Beardsley illustrating a Lewis Carrol fable as an Art Nouveau Shunga hand scroll.

After several years of searching, I finally learned the name of the painter and the title of the work I noticed in The Limits of Control . Very little is available in English on Cristóbal Ruiz Pulido, but it was his painting, a portrait of his daughter in a hallway, that triggered a need to know more about his work. A substantial article in Spanish can be found here . Cristóbal Ruiz Pulido, painter and poet, was born in 1881 in Villacarrillo, a city in the south-central province Jaén in Spain. He studied at the School of Fine Arts, Cordoba with Rafael Romero Barros and then in San Fernando in Madrid with Alejandro Ferrant. From 1902 to 1914 he lived in France, Belgium and Holland, studying under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1910 he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In 1917 he won third prize, and in 1920 Tierras de labor won second prize. In 1925 he participated in the exhibition and in the manifesto of the Iberian Artists Hall, ...

A w oodcut by Aoki Shukuya (1737-1802) 青木夙夜  from 解屍編 / 河口信任子遠著 (Complete notes on the dissection of cadavers) More can be found HERE