Category: admiration
ED RUSCHA, 1979 (est. $1/1.5 million) – photo: sotheby’s
“a prayer for the wild at heart trapped in cages .”
–TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (subtitle to his 1941 play “stairs to the roof”)
the last stanza of T. S. ELIOT’s poem “the hollow men” as street art
photo by: HÏMY SYÊD
h-21, eye of dawn, margaretha zelle, MATA HARI
many were her names
the prototype of the femme fatale.
a kiss to her executioners
“harlot, yes, but traitor, never.”
daughter of a ROTHSCHILD, and a member of the free french forces during WWII, baroness PANNONICA de KOENIGSWARTER was a patron of the new york jazz scene in the 1950s, as well as a confidant to its greatest musicians.
in two red leather HERMÈS notebooks, “NICA” transcribed the responses of three hundred jazz musicians to the same singular question, and included along with those often phonetically typed notes, a polaroid that she took herself .
all images courtesy of hermes.com
more: BLAKLEY, LOCKJAW & COLTRANE (3)
the morning i got up to begin this book i coughed . something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me . i broke the thread which held it and yanked it out . i went back to bed and said: i have just spat out my heart .
there is an instrument called the quena made of human bones . it owes its origin to the worship of an indian for his mistress . when she died he made a flute out of her bones . the quena has a more penetrating, more haunting sound than the ordinary flute .
those who write know the process . i thought of it as i was spitting out my heart .
only i do not wait for my love to die .
– ANAÏS NIN, house of incest