Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A Portrait of the Young Woman Going Mad

The portraits we have of this artist, are photographs.
These photographs were taken (somewhere)
and were developed by the artist
herself. Only photographs.
Modern attempts to capture young woman's
nature are weighed down with
truth-like details (realities - insanity is a different type
of reality). The inability to sketch out what is not (important).
Portraits, only some of the time are apt at capturing madness.

The photographs you will see are infiltrated with descriptions
of the artist losing her mind. Some may attribute this madness
to lack of nutrition. Some may attribute it to an affliction
(intoxicated, starved, starving, desperate pain in her limbs
caused by a block of blood flow to her brain). If you look closely,
you can see. If you were to meet her (somewhere), you'd never ask.
You'd just look back at the photograph.

This artist's madness was in her hair. Her portrait was kept in a room
with precious treasures from land of the Orient.
If I were to take her portrait I'd do it in oils (given there existed money,
skill, time) Only a camera was available at this time.
A good artist steals (has been stolen, is stolen -
sometimes by reality, sometimes by the realities)
A good portrait of a woman or a woman going mad steals
(what you see is not truth, it is madness). Steal from her
that which was at one time and is at once.
Kill the moments that stole from her the right to be
so mind boggling insane. Her insanity is so.

She is not mad in all of these photographs. As you will see,
she is only mad in some. Losing the mind is a gradual process.
You will find that some of these portraits are slightly ambiguous.
You will have to decide for yourself when her mind goes.

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me said...

I love your words! You haven't written a blog since November of 2010? Why? Please come back!