FB Post – 10/25

[Kortney]

Quote –

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our Monsters,” without immediatley turning the monsters into pets.” – Jacques Derrida

Note, the M O H are all capitalized.

Original Painting –

Presence of Mind by René Magritte

These writings, like his images, stand to give the audience opportunities to differentiate between what they’ve been told they should admire and what they really do. Many of these pieces, particularly the prose poems, aphorisms and very brief stories, resist explanation or interpretation, both of which are terms and activities Magritte finds suspect, preferring that his viewers try to see for themselves what is there; to take the “presence of mind” he says was required to make the work and to allow it to make their own minds more present.

reference

[Author]

Posts