'I' WORDS

Blake Archive

Song of Los

Copy F, 1795

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Munich, Germany

I associate all of these words which begin with the letter 'I' with right brain fuctioning. 

I-word                      Antonym
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Imagination             Definition

Intuition                   Logic

Intimation                Specified 

Inspiration               Literality 

Insight                     Obvious 

Instinctive                Preplanned  

Infinite                     Finite

Integrate                 Differentiate

Inclusive                  Exclusive

Incorporating           Rejecting

Intimate                   Distant

Interconnected        Disconnected

Impulsive                 Premeditated

Implicit                     Explicit

Indefinite                  Definite

Inventive                  Repetitive 

Intrinsic                    Acquired

Internal                    External

NC MUSEUM OF ART

 The North Carolina Museum of Art’s first Pablo Picasso painting—”Seated Woman, Red and Yellow Background”—is now on display in the museum’s West Building.The 1952 portrait of Picasso’s muse and lover, French artist Françoise Gilot, employs the cubist techniques Picasso was known for.

Gilot was not, however, pleased with the portrait. 

I was pleased with my lunch in the NCMA cafe.

FRY BREAD $11

Native American inspired fry bread topped with the Three Sisters; a stewed medley of beans, corn and squash in tomato stock and garnished with shredded Monterey jack, heirloom tomato, shredded lettuce and lime infused sour cream

LARRY'S DREAM

 Dream sequence:

The other day I had dinner with Blake, and I asked him if he had said all he had to say by 1828. He said "'pretty much', 'pretty much', especially if you've experienced all the words and pictures that I left behind."

I asked him if there was anything more he would like to tell us now from his present life. He said, "Oh yes, a great deal; but I've experienced nothing that your corporeal mind would find meaningful." He went on to say that where he now lived and what he now knew was separated from me by a great chasm, much like the one between Lazarus in Abraham's bosom and Dives.

He reminded me of Paul's experience in the Third Heaven where "He heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter".

I asked Blake if he had recently come in contact with Isaiah or Ezekiel. He said that Ezekiel and he had become bosom buddies, "We laughed together over the peculiar directive that Ezekiel had received from God." He also told Ezekiel that that affair had meant a lot to him and given him a vivid awareness of the "perception of the infinite". (MHH13, E39)

Blake went on to say that in due course, at the acceptable time, he would be glad to introduce me to Ezekiel or to anyone else I desired to meet. He also would arrange a tennis match for me with Kenny Rosewall.

I was just about to make further requests when the alarm clock sounded, and I was aroused from my Heavenly Vision or perhaps I went back to the corporeal sleep.

EVELYN

Cecelia, Evelyn, Max, Suzanne

Evelyn & Grandchildren

INDEPENCENCE DAY

The Green Fields Of France

Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?

Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Although, you died back in 1916

In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Enclosed in forever behind the glass frame
In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

The sun now it shines on the green fields of France
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Ah young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why
Do those that lie here know why did they die?
And did they believe when they answered the cause
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing and dying, were all done in vain
For young Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post in chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Eric Bogle

FALLING

Four Disgracers

Prints by Hendrik Goltzius

Icarus

Met

Phaeton

Met

Tantalus

Ixion

Each of our fallers tried to enter the realm of the gods and was punished for his hubris.

The four seemingly varied poses are in fact more or less the same pose (one leg bent down, the other raised; one arm raised, the other lowered) viewed from different angles.

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The Phaethon tondo is one of a series of engravings known as The Four Disgracers (also called Falls) – four figures from Greek mythology who defied the gods for which they were punished in the form of a fall. The other three sheets of the series depict Icarus, Tantalus (1588, the only plate to be dated) and Ixion. Phaethon was the son of the god Helios. Phaethon was showing off his divine origin to his friends, which he wished to prove by persuading his father to let him drive the sun chariot drawn by four fiery steeds across the heavens. However, he soon lost control and the runaway horses exited the trajectory, nearly knocking down the cope of heaven. Then the chariot came too close to the earth, setting it on fire. To prevent further damage, Jupiter knocked down Phaethon with a bolt of lighting, hurling him into the river Eridonos. The scene is executed in perfect, three−dimensional illusion, the youth’s body appears to plunge any moment into the viewer’s own space. The bottom part of the tondo shows a river and the earth with cities ablaze, all of this veiled by remarkable aerial perspective, rendered in the delicate engraving technique.

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To escape from King Minos of Crete Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings for himself and his son Icarus, made of metal feather held to a leather frame by beeswax. Before trying to escape the island, he warned his son to follow his flight path and not fly too close to the sun or the sea.Icarus disobeyed his father and soared higher into the sky. The heat from the sun softened the beeswax. He realized that he had no feathers left and fell into the sea.

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Most famously, Tantalus offered up his son, Pelops, as a sacrifice. He cut Pelops up, boiled him, and served him up in a banquet for several gods in order to test their omniscience. The gods became aware of the gruesome nature of the menu, so they did not touch the offering; only Demeter, distraught by the loss of her daughter, Persephone, absentmindedly ate part of the boy's shoulder.

Tantalus's punishment for his act was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he could get any.

Over his head towers a threatening stone.

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 Zeus took pity on Ixion and brought him to Olympus and introduced him at the table of the gods. Instead of being grateful, Ixion grew lustful for Hera, Zeus's wife, a further violation of guest–host relations. Zeus found out about his intentions and made a cloud in the shape of Hera and tricked Ixion into coupling with it. 

Ixion was expelled from Olympus and blasted with a thunderbolt. Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning. Therefore, Ixion was bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, spinning across the heavens.

WYETH

 

To mark the 25th anniversary of the transition of Kuerner Farm from a family home into a public site visited and sketched by thousands annually, the Brandywine (which owns Kuerner Farm) and Reynolda (itself the owner of an important Kuerner watercolor), have joined forces to co-organize Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth.

Arbor Acres
Aldersgate Square

• Reynolda House Museum of American Art: February 13 – May 25, 2025