the sourcerer: The ides of April.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

The ides of April.

Never was there more welcome news: a call sheet that read

Shoot Day 40 of 40.

Then, one more obstacle. Removal of Basal Cell Carcinoma. South Africa's sunny skies, my youth spent swimming and running around on the beach. What did we know about sunscreen...

I have this to say: don't be a procrastinator like me. I could have saved myself a lot of worry and had a much smaller scar if I had gone a long time ago. I am twelve stitches wiser.

While time heals, I build collages.

They are a mixture of Istanbul and our garden.

My heart still points to that wonderful place, sharp as a knife.

We will spend the month of September there and I can barely wait.

3 comments:

Marie said...: Eina, bokkie! My mom just had one zapped, too, on her arm. Factor 5 was for wusses when we were little. Sigh. Now it's 50.

Istanbul for a month. Damn. Will you go sideways, to a dorp, too? Ayvalik is nice. A ferry ride, good meatballs, lovely market, old streets. Sob - neem my saam.; April 23, 2015 at 5:28 PM
the sourcerer said...: Hmmm sideways, or across the plains... I have this wish to go to Gaziantep. 11 Hour drive anyone?
xxx; April 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM
Marie said...: ...and if you go on a bus, that's an adventure in itself. With a boy serving tea constantly, and many stops for very good truck stop food.; April 24, 2015 at 6:10 PM

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You could tend a garden at night, only at night, pouring dark water onto leaves, and into the earth, like pouring midnight onto midnight. You could hold your soil-stained hands up to the moon. The stars would gleam on the bottom of the shovel. It would smell the same as a daytime garden - it would smell green, violet, red, white. But come back, in daylight. Come back, to see the colours without closing your eyes.
- Sean Michaels. Accompaniment to the song "Immune" by LOW. Said the Gramophone

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."
Jim Jarmusch (1953- )

You got very hungry when you did not eat enough in Paris because all the bakery shops had such good things in the windows and people ate outside at tables on the sidewalk so that you saw and smelled the food. When you had given up journalism and were writing nothing that anyone in America would buy, explaining at home that you were lunching out with someone, the best place to go was the Luxembourg gardens where you smelled and saw nothing to eat all the way from the Place de l'Observatoire to the rue de Vaugirard. There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry. I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought that Cézanne was probably hungry in a different way.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) - from A Moveable Feast.