As threatened in my prior post, "Photo, Tableau, Ago", I will continue the subject elsewhen.
I guess this is as elsewhen as it gets when one time-travels. Photo-ago at left was taken by Mike Childs in 1967. Portrait at right was painted by Titian 400 years earlier.
Point is: The brain contains all time. The moment through which we went and still go is all we know. We proceed into every change our progress makes. It gives, it takes. Whatever our minds find and unfold, we feel. We grow old.
Now, excuse me, I must look for my other glove.
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But will doubtless return to this subject by and by.
In the photographs both looks are intense, curious, a bit reluctant though not shy - and there are many thoughts behind those two foreheads, I am very sure. Titian's gant seems bit more aggressive, the frills on his shirt will not deceive me :-) The longer I look at the eyes of both I detect a suppressed laughter.
ReplyDeleteTo dissect the exciting theme "Time" I will put on white gloves: though no speck of dust here is to be found - the subject remains glittering and alluring as ever.
No need to mutter "Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be too late" - if we see Time as a circle and not linear.
I just read that the "White Rabbit's perennial unpunctuality is a nod to Oxford time, the tradition at Oxford (and especially Christ Church, where Carroll taught) of having events begin five minutes past the scheduled hour."
So enough time to pick up your glove which you left here on your time travels in a hurry!
Dear Britta, I was unaware of the 5-minute Oxford social delay but it reminds me of Daughter's story after we sold our front ditch to the county and used the cash to send her to Moscow 20 years ago. She studied all things theatrical- mainly costume design- at Meyerhold's Apartment there. It was customary to be 7 minutes late.
DeleteI like to think the amusement Gant and I feel is, despite numerous differences (and nearly 1/2 millennium) we share some resemblance to a pair of gloves.
Oh, but how our brains warp that time. Trading stories with old friends, it's always interesting to see how we remember things differently, how I might have blocked out memories they remember vividly and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteI think Titian captured you very nicely.
Indeed, he did a bang-up job, but I'm still glad he didn't hire me for "Judith with the Head of Holofernes" --which did not turn out well.
DeleteI'd rather be with out a glove than be L'homme avec une chaussure rouge. Nice bit of presentism, Geo.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike. Have had only one red shoe event and ever-afterwards watched my step. Not bad for 500 years.
DeleteI am amazed at how little your appearance aged in approximately 400 years, Geo. I have come to know of your intellectual perspicacity but until now I had no idea of your mastery of the occult sciences. You'll find that glove in no time. Not elsetime.
ReplyDeleteDear Bruce, thank you. I have consigned much of the occult to methods apart from scientific empiricism. However, I can't escape feelings felt for Livinia Vecellio, Titian's daughter, by the graceful way she carried the heads of saints on gold platters.
Deletemy son remembers his childhood completely different that the way it was..even when his brothr and sister would tell him no...that's not what happened he's not convinced.
ReplyDeleteDear Jackiesue, This sounds very familiar to me. Being the youngest of my siblings allowed them more time to embellish mishaps of my mischief whether they happened or not. It might be part of how we grow up to be individuals.
Deletehe told everyone we were homeless and lived in our car..story? we were driving from calif to texas and I thought we'd find a motel before I got sleepy..didn't..so pulled over and took a nap for about 2 hours and then drove to next town and checked in motel ..homeless.sigh***
DeleteIndeed, a sign of universality: L'homme is where the hearrt is (le cœur?), from American Southwest to Paris.
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