Exercises In Romantic Understanding: "To become another's destiny - a thread upon which attraction could be strung - revealing the search for love...." An excursion into an array of themes regarding romantic sensibility and the desiring psyche examined through essays, intimate correspondence and imaginative considerations. Aspiring to fathom the efforts of romance, these "exercises" explore an unfolding resonance, one that exalts participation in the aims of yearning. Andrew Franck's writings include The Transparent Bride, Mantras and Musical Solutions, The Art of Porosity, Number & Spell and...
Exercises In Romantic Understanding: "To become another's destiny - a thread upon which attraction could be strung - revealing the search for love.......
Like invisible fingers touching into the corporeal, the after-world entwines throughout this very moment. Rarified, the departed impart their "exhalation" back to the tangible world - Imaginations from them. Breathing this atmosphere, our higher senses increase, our spirit encourages a compassionate cosmos. Through words and images, The Holy Bodies Circuit offers chants of recognition and intention, currents of devotion, meditation in verse and imagery within an ambulatory where feeling itself renews the form of "relic." Here, the relationship of the spoken and imaged function as bridge, a...
Like invisible fingers touching into the corporeal, the after-world entwines throughout this very moment. Rarified, the departed impart their "exhalat...
From Up-Island adventures to deep jigging Vineyard Sound... in the company of spectacular shoreline, voracious sport fish, quirky camaraderie and a cornpone recipe, an angler's holiday becomes a reflection on the magic of Martha's Vineyard.
From Up-Island adventures to deep jigging Vineyard Sound... in the company of spectacular shoreline, voracious sport fish, quirky camaraderie and a co...
Though meant to be exhibited much like large-scale advertising, smaller-sized presentations of these billboards have made their way onto walls and ceilings using mostly stencils and paint. Other media were employed in a some instances, including decorative lighting, colored sand, broken glass, Chinese bowls, assorted miniature toys and bird feathers. Given opportune circumstances, an assortment of these have been displayed in park settings, near government monuments, sporting events and shopping malls. Clearly, there are many more contexts and possibilities given the overabundance of public...
Though meant to be exhibited much like large-scale advertising, smaller-sized presentations of these billboards have made their way onto walls and cei...
Projective Mythology Series #2 Inspired by the early spagyric chemists and present-day spiritual science, these psychoemblemata - pictorially woven imaginations of soul - spiral into the inventive endeavor of the cosmos, elaborating Hermetic effort while tapping into a storehouse of metacognitive ideation. Here, alchemical sensibility ferments, distills and exalts capacities for meeting the philosophic stone of self-initiation. Without annotation, these images ardently assemble a contemporary awareness of the Hermetic value for addressing the hiddenness of meaning. Engaging the breadth and...
Projective Mythology Series #2 Inspired by the early spagyric chemists and present-day spiritual science, these psychoemblemata - pictorially woven im...
Projective Mythology Series #1 "These are not fables. You will touch with your hands, see with your eyes the Mercury of Philosophers which alone will suffice for you to obtain our remedy. Darkness will appear on the face of the Abyss, Night, Saturn and the Antimony of the Sages; blackness and the raven's head of the alchemists, and all the colors of the world will appear at the hour of conjunction as well as the peacock's tail. After the work has passed from ashen-colored to white and yellow, the Stone will appear diaphanous as crystal, compact and weighty, as easily fusible by fire as resin,...
Projective Mythology Series #1 "These are not fables. You will touch with your hands, see with your eyes the Mercury of Philosophers which alone will ...
Projective Mythology Series #3 In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard wrote, "Childhood is greater than reality." The articulation of this presence of possibility reflects the mystery fundamental to cosmology. Whether seeking insight from ancient wisdom, through visionary insight or present-day science, the compelling feeling for "the beginning" is birthed as a child distinguishes "home" from that of the outside world, then opens to a sense of wonder. Borne upon imagery and Hermetic objectives, Air Does What Warmth Ordains (the third in a series of alchemical notebooks) is an excursion...
Projective Mythology Series #3 In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard wrote, "Childhood is greater than reality." The articulation of this presence...
