Luis Soares's Blog, page 15

Sharon Olds - True Love

In the middle of the night, when we get up
after making love, we look at each other in
complete friendship, we know so fully
what the other has been doing. Bound to each other
like mountaineers coming down from a mountain,
bound with the tie of the delivery-room,
we wander down the hall to the bathroom, I can
hardly walk, I hobble through the granular
shadowless air, I know where you are
with my eyes closed, we are bound to each other
with huge invisible threads, our sexes
muted, exhausted, crushed, the wh...

Live at the Niger River

Before it was decided that it was too unsafe for us to travel together outside the Niger capital, Niamey, we were planning to do concerts in villages throughout Niger, all with beautiful scenery. When Ahmoudou and I spent some time together at the beginning of the trip, we went location scouting in Niamey to see how we can achieve something similar while staying around the capital.

A friend of ours had taken us to a place on the outskirts of Niamey, "In the bush". This land was right on the Nig...

Amy Lowell - The Matrix

Goaded and harassed in the factory
   That tears our life up into bits of days
   Ticked off upon a clock which never stays,
Shredding our portion of Eternity,
We break away at last, and steal the key
   Which hides a world empty of hours; ways
   Of space unroll, and Heaven overlays
The leafy, sun-lit earth of Fantasy.
   Beyond the ilex shadow glares the sun,
   Scorching against the blue flame of the sky.
Brown lily-pads lie heavy and supine
   Within a granite basin, under one
   The bronze-gold glimmer...

Contrapunctus 14, BWV 1080, 19

Daniil Trifonov – Bach: Contrapunctus 14, BWV 1080, 19 (Compl. by Trifonov)

Daniil Trifonov is intrigued by Bach’s attempts to base the work on the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, but observes that the result is “far more than a scientific experiment: as always with Bach, he managed to make music of indescribable beauty and emotion”. Trifonov’s imaginative interpretation captures the sense of the work as a cycle, treating it as a living, organic whole. This chimes with the inspiration ...

Fiat Pax

Jakub Józef Orliński – "Fiat pax" from Zelenka: Laetatus sum, ZWV 90

Stavros Kastrinakis

Stavros Kastrinakis' photography aims to capture the sublimity of the natural and urban landscape in contradiction with the fragility of human existence.

Having as a starting point his studies in theater and psychology, Kastrinakis gazes at the protagonists of his photographs through the prism of both the narrator and the spectator attempting to identify and reveal the inner self of the individual. His pictures encapsulate thin slices of reality where moments of leisure are being trans...

Jupiter

Slowed down,
stopped outside Prada Marfa.
An abandoned petrol station,
or an art world sphinx or oracle.
Glass, and beyond, shoes and bags.
Like a weapon deposit slowly reflects your shape as a tiny hole,
black against the desert-scape,
like a planet calling.

Jupiter call her
into the ether.
Let her come.

I should relate somehow.
I am an «abandoned project».
But also a creature
crisp and clear like the desert,
indistinguishable from clarity.
Heavenly and high.
The clouds’ appendage.
I could open my mouth
and ...

Hakanai Sonzai

Miyashita San, Sanae San, Sudo San, Kishita Sanfrom, Takuya San and Yuki San
from the series Hakanai Sonzai by Pierre-Elie de Pibrac

Pierre-Elie de Pibrac graduated from business school in 2009 only to turn his back on a potentially lucrative future in finance when his first photographic portraits, taken on a trip to Myanmar, received immediate recognition. Paris-born Pibrac has since become a widely celebrated visual artist, exhibiting extensively and publishing several monographs. ‘Everyt...

Follow Me Around

‘Follow Me Around’ is taken from ‘KID A MNESIA’ out 5th November via XL Recordings. // Directors: Us // Starring Guy Pearce

Lemons

Donald Sultan (b. 1951 Asheville, NC) is an artist who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement. Sultan has challenged the boundaries between painting and sculpture throughout his career. Using industrial materials such as roofing tar, aluminum, linoleum and enamel, Sultan layers, gouges, sands and constructs his paintings—sumptuous, richly textured compositions often made of the same materials as the rooms in which they are displayed. Intrigued by contrasts, ...