GRETA OTO 20:46 HENRIETTE - Limited Edition 1 of 2 Print

GRETA OTO 20:46 HENRIETTE This piece of work was inspired by the following: “How many nights have I lain here like this, feverish with plans, with fears, with the last sentence someone spoke, still trying to finish a conversation already over? How many nights were wasted in not sleeping, how many in sleep—I don’t know how many hungers there are, how much radiance or salt, how many times the world breaks apart, disintegrates to nothing and starts up again in the course of an ordinary hour. I don’t know how God can bear seeing everything at once: the falling bodies, the monuments and burnings, the lovers pacing the floors of how many locked hearts. I want to close my eyes and find a quiet field in fog, a few sheep moving toward a fence. I want to count them, I want them to end. I don’t want to wonder how many people are sitting in restaurants about to close down, which of them will wander the sidewalks all night while the pies revolve in the refrigerated dark. How many days are left of my life, how much does it matter if I manage to say one true thing about it-how often have I tried, how often failed and fallen into depression? The field is wet, each grassblade gleaming with its own particularity, even here, so that I can’t help asking again, the white sky filling with footprints, bricks, with mutterings over rosaries, with hands that pass over flames before covering the eyes. I’m tired, I want to rest now. I want to kiss the body of my lover, the one mouth, the simple name without a shadow. Let me go. How many prayers are there tonight, how many of us must stay awake and listen?” ©Kim Addonizio, “The Numbers” http://www.kimaddonizio.com/ 'Vous oublierez aussi Henriette...' Casanova. Mémoires. Henriette - 'I will call the heart a second arrow. And the soul - this clock face of stars!' The artist is grateful to © Ilya Shambat for the English translation of an abstract from Marina Tsvetayeva’s play “Adventure” - the first play from the dramatic trilogy: “Three ages of Casanova”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Tsvetaeva Henriette's character in Federico Fellini's Casanova: Fellini's Casanova (1976) on the YouTube channel la llorona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3X4VOBlNU Il Casanova - Henriette, (Tu oublieras aussi Henriette) - Fellini on the YouTube channel isisendosiris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmmwZW4AFo א אָנָה הָלַךְ דּוֹדֵךְ, הַיָּפָה בַּנָּשִׁים; אָנָה פָּנָה .דוֹדֵךְ, וּנְבַקְשֶׁנּוּ עִמָּךְ 1 'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, that we may seek him with thee?' From "Song of Songs" http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3006.htm Greta oto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_oto 'Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.' T.S. Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot From Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam312/prufrock.html The lost memories theme in cult arthouse movie of Wong Kar-wai "2046" : 'I once fell in love with someone After a while. she wasn't there I went to 2046 I thought she might be waiting for me there But I couldn't find her I can't stop wondering if she loved me or not But I never found out Maybe her answer was like a secret...' From the script of the 2046 (film) - Hong Kong romantic drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2046_(film) http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/n/2046-script-transcript-kar-wai.html 2046 (2004) [Wong Kar-Wai] Eng. Esp & Fren. Subs. on the YouTube channel La Mazmorra Cinéfila 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhYzFmKoIk Special thanks from the artist to the award-winning actress Ms. Lucy Liu for her role as Dr. Joan Watson in American procedural drama series Elementary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Liu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_(TV_series) 'Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.' Jean Paul https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Paul Jean Paul's Geist; oder Chrestomathie, Vierter Theil [4th part], Weimar/Leipzig, 1816 https://books.google.ca/books?id=UMwMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false 'Love loves to love love.' James Joyce https://www.bl.uk/people/james-joyce 'Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.' ©Kim Addonizio ______________________ Copyright © Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan Esq. 2013

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Size:12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 14.25 H x 1.2 D in

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