Once upon a transdimensional day...: Just A Little Witchery...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Just A Little Witchery...

... in celebration of Halloween, Samhain and the Celtic New Year.

Originally, I had planned to do an in-depth Halloween exploration of two important artists, and favorite Surrealists of mine, Patron Saint #7: Remedios Varos, and Patron Saint #8: Leonora Carrington. Fate intervened in the form of Hurricane Sandy, however, and power returned to my neck of the woods only about an hour ago. It could be worse - last I knew, New Jersey was still under water, and NYC was still in the dark.

Best I could do.

Blessed Be.

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Note: More links regarding Leonora Carrington can be found in Patron Saint #9: Kay Sage - "I Walk Without Echo"

Regarding Remedios Varo, Patron Saint #7: of all the Patron Saints on this blog, she is the only woman to be included in WikiPaintings. (Correction! As of this note, November 2013, Carrington has found her place on Wikpaintings, as well.)

In view of my regretfully truncated post for these two phenomenal artists, I am including YouTube videos for both of them here. My advice is view them full-screen.

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BG DodsonOctober 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Fitting images...and Happy Halloween!
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BG DodsonNovember 13, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Speaking of witchery...I sense...a great disturbance in the aether...the transparent veils between the worlds are fluttering in an ionic wind......and .....I see something about the Artist...as Quantum Mystic...but.....the voices are faint..and what I see..fades before my eyes.

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- Louise Nevelson

“Imagination is the divine faculty which, more surely than any philosophy, recognizes the secret relationships between the phenomena of this world and the next.”

- Charles Baudelaire

"The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not properly a personality at all. He floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions--such a man is a mere article of furniture--a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being--an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock the humble servant of the air in motion."

- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821- 1881)

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Just for Love - Peter Murphy

The Reckoner - Radiohead (live)

From the Flagstones - Cocteau Twins

Serpentskirt - Faye Wong

Sanvean - Lisa Gerrard

Waves Become Wings - This Mortal Coil

Human Behavior - Bjork

Warszawa - David Bowie/Brian Eno

An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno

Wuthering Heights - Ryuichi Sakamoto

Decades - Joy Division

A Deeper Kind of Slumber - Tiamat

She's Lost Control - Joy Division

She's Lost Control (live) - Joy Division

Liquid Coincidence -Klaus Schulze/Lisa Gerrard

Gaia - Faun

Lupercalia - Faun

Estrella - Lycia

Here Before - Fever Ray

Mercy Street - Fever Ray

The Ancients - Two Steps from Hell

Tree of Forgiveness - Two Steps from Hell

Avatar - Dead Can Dance

When Mama Was Moth - Cocteau Twins

Tessellate - Alt-J

The Gospel of John Hurt - Alt-J

Drink Down the Moon - Steeleye Span

The Dream - Hare and the Moon

The Dreaming Moon - The Magnetic Fields

Moon of Amber - Elend

The Memory of the Goze - Lisa Gerrard & Michael Edwards

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

O virtus Sapientiae - Hildegard von Bingen (composer)

Caritas abundat - Hildegard von Bingen (composer)

I Feel Free - Cream

Dance the Night Away - Cream

Into the Mystic (live) - Van Morrison

Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith

The Dreamer Is Still Asleep - Coil

Rosa Decidua - Coil

Flowers Become Screens - Delerium

Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex

This Mess Where In - Thom Yorke With PJ Harvey

The River - PJ Harvey

Liquid Diamonds -Tori Amos

Glory Box (live) - Portishead

Ne Me Quitte Pas (live) - Alison Moyet

Sapientia - Jocelyn Montgomery

Gaelic Meadows - Deep Still

The Host Of Seraphim (live) - Lisa Gerrard

Song to a Siren (live) - Elizabeth Fraser

Eight Miles High - The Thought

Pretty Ballerina - Left Banke

Whiter Shade of Pale - Annie Lennox

This Little Bird - Marianne Faithfull

Lady Jane (live) - Rolling Stones

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“I believe the universe is a great symphony of numerical correspondences, I believe that numbers and their symbolism provide a path to special knowledge. But if the world, below and above, is a system of correspondences where tout se tient, it’s natural for the kiosk and pyramid, both works of man, to reproduce in their structure, unconsciously, the harmonies of the cosmos. The so-called pyramidologists discover with their incredibly torturous methods a straightforward truth, a truth far more ancient, and one already known. It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already. Why must it demonstrate that which could not be otherwise? If there is a secret, it is much more profound.”

- Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

"This all-important spark of inner life today is at present only a spark. Our minds, which are even now only just awakening after years of materialism, are infected with the despair of unbelief, of lack of purpose and ideal. The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. Only a feeble light glimmers like a tiny star in a vast gulf of darkness. This feeble light is but a presentiment, and the soul, when it sees it, trembles in doubt whether the light is not a dream, and the gulf of darkness reality."

- Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910

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