Mesoamerican Art: Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Toltec etc

[sus]

movement is stillness, so

a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still

regular reference to "arch"--both noun and verb
(v.) stone architecture support, pillarbridge
(n.) fleshy/corporeal bending, curving, vaguely sexual

arching (as in sex) --> arches (as in architecture: new loadbearing 'structure,' broadly)

just as

SUN = (ripens) FRUIT

and so by extension

STAR = BODY

(sexual, luscious)

your belly is a plaza full of sun...
a stretch of ramparts split by the light
in two halves the color of peaches

 

[Murphy]

Dip into this (not to break your flow state)

The Curse of the Blinding Worm. A close look at ‘Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me’, by Malcolm McNeill • Empty Mirror

Colin Wilson read this extraordinary book at a single sitting. He can’t have been an exception. Malcolm McNeill’s Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me sweeps you up into a multi…

www.emptymirrorbooks.com

RIVER = TREE
(and by extension)
BLUE = GREEN, e.g.

 

[sus]

if SUN = FRUIT = BODY, and SUN = STONE, then

FRUIT = STONE (stonefruit, the peaches) and also BODY = STONE

thighs of light, belly of light, the bays, / the solar rock...

and behold:

your belly is a plaza...
you are the city the sea assaults
a stretch of ramparts split by the light
a domain of salt, rocks and birds
under the rule of oblivious noon

More precisely, SUN turns BODY into STONE. The "rule of oblivious noon."

SUN (the passage of time) turns FLESHFRUIT (spaceform) into inert particle

the same way a bird's

song can turn a forest to stone...
...oh forests of pillars...

 

[sus]

Dip into this (not to break your flow state)

The Curse of the Blinding Worm. A close look at ‘Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me’, by Malcolm McNeill • Empty Mirror

Colin Wilson read this extraordinary book at a single sitting. He can’t have been an exception. Malcolm McNeill’s Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me sweeps you up into a multi…

www.emptymirrorbooks.com

Do you recommend the novel (Ah Pook Is Here), the unpublished art collection, or the book about the making (Observed While Falling)

 

[Mr. Tea]

movement is stillness, so


regular reference to "arch"--both noun and verb
(v.) stone architecture support, pillarbridge
(n.) fleshy/corporeal bending, curving, vaguely sexual

arching (as in sex) --> arches (as in architecture: new loadbearing 'structure,' broadly)

just as

SUN = (ripens) FRUIT

and so by extension

STAR = BODY

(sexual, luscious)

You may be interested to know that just about every native language spoken in the Mesoamerican region, despite the fact that they belong to a number of totally unrelated language families, has a word for "gold" that literally means "shit of the Sun."

 

[Murphy]

Ah Pook Is Here), the unpublished art collection

this

still, for source material the McNeil blurb expands on conversations a lot more so you have all its respective idea boards, convos on inclusions/exclusions/alterations, Mesoamerican art more broadly dipping in and out of sites and chronologies, through to colour schemes

could imagine @catalog getting more out of ‘the making of’ and you favouring the o.g but only the reader will know

 

[Murphy]

for all the audio clips on Burroughs and the corn god, the making of explores more of WB’s ideas around god pantheons, figures like Bishop de Landa are constantly lurking in the shadows, a person i struggle with when exploring the kind of pathological profile who profited directly from ordering such wholesale cultural destruction

seems a redolent subject in the north American imagination insomuch as Neil Armstong’s library jungle quest overlaps succinctly with lost library artefacts, books made of gold, rites lost to time just waiting to be found

 

[Mr. Tea]

(in case anyone thinks I'm making this up: https://www.researchgate.net/public...LD_TO_MESOAMERICA_THROUGH_LINGUISTIC_EVIDENCE)

 

[Murphy]

this

still, for source material the McNeil blurb expands on conversations a lot more so you have all its respective idea boards, convos on inclusions/exclusions/alterations, Mesoamerican art more broadly dipping in and out of sites and chronologies, through to colour schemes

could imagine @catalog getting more out of ‘the making of’ and you favouring the o.g but only the reader will know

dive in around interviews, few chewy essentials below @sus

Interview with Malcolm McNeill - The White Review

I first met Malcolm McNeill in 2007. He was in London to do some printing for an exhibition, and he showed me a number of test pages. I thumbed through the astonishing series of expansive, hallucinatory images; a visionary tapestry of sci-fi warfare, mass orgies and metamorphosing gods printed...

www.thewhitereview.org

 

[Benny Bunter]

Gonna have a look in the library to see if they've got any Paz, I'm intrigued by this @sus . I've read some of his essays and they're really good, but not any of the poetry yet.

 

[sus]

Good looks on McNeil

What essays Benny?

Found this for flavor:

 

[sus]

I haven't found anything good about his method or project yet. Complete question mark. I may be totally off the mark

 

[version]

I heard of him via Bolano.

 

[Benny Bunter]

What essays Benny?

I have an essay collection called Las Peras del Olmo. I haven't read all of them, but there's good ones on magic art, surrealism, a few on various Spanish language poets, Japanese literature. Quite a range of stuff. Dunno what's available in English though.

 

[catalog]

I heard of him via Bolano.

Bolano likes him right? Or is he the one bolano hates?

 

[version]

Bolano likes him right? Or is he the one bolano hates?

The latter. He represents the establishment Bolano and co. were railing against.

 

[catalog]

He's thd one whose house they go to and berate him in front of his housekeeper?

 

[version]

He's thd one whose house they go to and berate him in front of his housekeeper?

Not sure, I just remember him going on about him in Savage Detectives.