Kristy Perez
Posted by ben on 13 Nov 2007 at 11:55 am | Tagged as: poetry, responses/reviews
This post is a response to Kristy Perez’s recent Chez Bernard (Artist Foundation) show at the Friedrich Building. Photos by Justin Parr.
Love in Return (After Anteros)
When we speak of love we begin with the feet. This is dictated by the movement of the heart, but it suggests the movement of the eyes. Of course the mirrors strip us bare even as they sink into the shoes. At what point does the wheel (the base of the leg apparatus) begin to turn? At what point does our fate return to the nest, gilded and headless (armless, legless)? Should I stop here, love, on the white banks of the river? You’ll find your shoes alone. Never. You’ll find your dissolusion in the air. If you reach the top of the ladder then do we find beauty? Yes I’m saying beauty is dissolusion. My heart brings me back to your feet. And yes those mirrors push me straight up your skirt. I’m building your leg straight through your heart. Don’t look away, love.
If at First You Don’t Succeed
The Voodoo is High in the Salt and the Oil of Our Air
The Promise
FIGHT
i heart kristy perez.
Federico García Lorca sez:
So, then, the duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’
Megadeth sez:
I reveal a deceiver
In the highest seat in the land
His idle hands the Devil’s workshop
Generate more smoke than heat
Kill the King, the King is dead, long live the King
Kill the King, the King is dead, long live the King,
I am the King, God save the King
Joyce sez:
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish
Cervantes sez:
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Dylan sez Frankie Lee sez:
“What kind of house is this,” he said,
“Where I have come to roam?”
“We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.
“The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.
“Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.” Dr. Jose Delgado
Frankie says “Relax!”
“These women were with me and as a man I defend them. He was lucky he ran out of the restaurant. He’s not even half a man.”
This show had better food than any other show I’ve ever been to.
Frankie “…burst into the arms of Judas Priest,
Which is where he died of thirst.”
“¿Yo me frio o lo sophlo?
Si me voi va ver peligro
Si me quedo es doble
Me tienes que decir
¿Yo me frio o lo sophlo?”
By deftly placing hybrid constructions in such a hauntingly brilliant way,
I feel Kristy has had a breakthrough in her approach to installation work.
I look forward to future exhibitions.
Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
breakthrough
My tip of the week: For those who didn’t luck out in the lottery to gain entry to the London Marathon there’s always the half marathon being held at the O2 arena on October 5th.
By means of this eternal fleece may Sūrya’s Daughter purify
Thy Soma that is foaming forth
Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say
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