Showing posts with label Gordon Dawson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Dawson. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

nonsuch / nonpareil
















Nonsuch Palace c1560 Joris Hoefnagel

There you are in your beautiful villa, straight out of Disneyland, on a clear blue lake that drains away, while you sit, with a last derisive gurgle…


A dangerous road. Every pitfall, every error, every snare to which Everyman has been liable since the beginning, you are sure to meet on the road to the Western Lands…

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

the world's most beautiful mountain … as agreed by mountaineers























'There are the Alps,' Basil Bunting is supposed to have scribbled on his copy of the Cantos. 'What is there to say about them?' Mainly this, in the brief poem that follows:

They don't make sense. fatal glaciers, crags cranks climb,
jumbled boulder and weed, pasture and boulder, scree…

It takes some getting used to. there are the Alps,
fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble!

[T.J. Clark Reservations of the Marvellous, The Arcades Project 1999]

Thursday, 3 December 2009

In Every Dream Home a Heartache

In Every Dream Home a Heartache

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this is not a love song
just a timeline rope dance
hi-pass low cut
dark matter yellow matter anti-matter
open plan chemistry
tryptamine tail fins
perspexed geometries and architectural overwear
cartooned in the suburbs of comedy

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"... I blew up your body, but you blew my mind."

(in memoriam)


You are invited to In Every Dream Home A Heartache, an environment by Gordon Dawson.
This is the seventh intervention by an individual artist at HOVEL

Open
Weekends 12th,13th,19th, 20th, December,1-6pm
Weekdays appointment only.
7th - 20th December, 1-6pm.

Private View 13th of December, 4-8pm.

Viewing by appointment:
0207 703 6337 or hoveltenant@googlemail.com

Address:
37 Evelina Mansions New Church Road
Camberwell, Se5 7JW