Friday, April 25, 2008

lèche-vitrines III

from a rude gilded gnome and his odd assorted friends in the window of a hair salon...
to a coyly posed unicorn lounging on a stiff green broom...
to a window stacked with all cutesy things plastic, yellow and some red...
paris can still do kitsch with the best of them...

Sunday, April 20, 2008

la tour phallique


la tour phallique
Originally uploaded by gverster_artwork.

je te goûte de plus en plus - ta salure, mon appétit...

mes cuisses coussinent ton visage - ton festin, mon tourbillon...

je m'abaisse dessus ta gloire - ta résurrection, mon sauvetage...

ma bouche s'élargit pour l'air - ta persistance, ma prière...

[excerpted from 'à nous deux' by g.verster, 2004]

Thursday, April 17, 2008

paris atlantes


paris atlantes
Originally uploaded by gverster_artwork.

tu portes bien mes jambs - mes pieds, ton halo...

tes mains bandent mes seins - ma mollesse, ta sauvegarde...

tu traces un voyage de langue - ma peau, ton atlas...

tes doigts me fourragent - ma crudité, ton remède...

[excerpted from 'à nous deux' by g.verster, 2004]

Saturday, April 12, 2008

jalan s. tiga

jalan s. tiga [2008] oil and acrylic on canvas; 60 x 90 cm
built in 1979 for relatives, I had already left borneo and had never known this house...I came to visit and stayed with the family here 3 years ago and felt a little closer to my father as I moved through the spaces he had designed for them...

Monday, April 7, 2008

seven reasons

...[wander] around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and [go], leaving no broken hearts
...[howl] on their knees in the subway and [be] dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts
...[weep] at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music
...[scribble] all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish
...[cook] rotten animals lung heart feet tail borsht and tortillas dreaming of the pure vegetable kingdom
...[throw] their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for eternity outside of time, and alarm clocks [fall] on their heads every day for the next decade
...[dream] and [make] incarnate gaps in time and space through images juxtaposed, and [trap] the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and [join] the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of [pater omnipotens aeterna deus]

[adapted and excerpted from 'howl' by allen ginsberg, 1956, 1959]

Thursday, April 3, 2008

missing stone


"I shall create! if not a note, a hole. if not an overture, a desecration."
[verse excerpted from 'boy breaking glass' by gwendolyn brooks, 1968]