
BUTTERFLY (ANDREI KHRZHANOVSKIY, 1972)
Butterfly is such a stunning little piece, considers both illusions and the reality of freedom. The film depicts a little boy’s transformation through his interactions with the non-human world. This as a metaphor for constructive self-annihilation, where we are destroyed so that we can be replaced by something different, shattered so that we are made open to the world, can finally understand something outside ourselves. Set to original music by Alfred Schnittke.
Model wearing cut out glasses by Will Kane, 1960s.
Austin Osman Spare,
Spiritual Study - Female Nude, kneeling with Seagull and Lion
Having returned from France where he was posted as War Artist, Spare began work on his forth book “The Focus of Life”, of which the styles in this drawing are similar..
(via yolk-of-the-sun)
Sign of the cuttlefish handshake, I belong
to the tiny filaments in your arms and legs, the sweat cord flotilla of your neck.
I never know how to cure you, kept outside the insects’ hum.
They drain your face, they even out your dreams.
(From ‘Moonraker by Vincent Zompa)
Track - ‘I hate the way things are’ by Dead Mellotron)