iScape Cisco: Pass Away

Apres Mon Passage

Armand, Place des Vosges, September 2003

Ta fleur n'est plus une rose,
Elle a l'apparence d'un choux.
Cependant que tu t'echoues
Dans les meandres de ma prose.

San Francisco Beach, April 2006

iScape Cisco: High Noon in Trieste (Audio)

Ambiance in Caffe Trieste,

At the corner of Nations - where hats make poets,
And gaudy pants wake up the ghosts of the dead ones

For the coffee, ah, you will need some few dollars more

Track: Ambiance in Caffee Trieste March, 27, 2006

iScape Mojave: Little Throat (Audio)

Fooling around on April 1st in Death Valley. Two days in a forlorn canyon punctuated by wild flowers struggling to blossom with all they have left. Here is a song for them.

Track 1: Throat singing (or close) by the bridge of Little Bridge Canyon, Death Valley, April 1st 2006

iScape Cisco: Bourgeois Boheme

For sale:

Salon style Louis XVIII with view on the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Park.

iScape Cisco: Booty Treasure

The Queens of Point Reyes
(old shanty circa 1797)

Oh Oh les dames de Point Reyes
Will point you to curvy rays

Oh Oh no shame in the eyes
of that who finds this shore's isle

Escarpe the sharkes
March the marshes

Swoooooon by the saloooooon

Ooh Ooh Sirens call pass the green pool
Where doomed lucky numbers roll
To their bumby treasure chest the fool
"Are these for real? Or am I fol?

A closer look
At Noah's maze
This triple hook
Will grant my ways

To me beauuuty!"

Alphabet (Corporal expression)

Rahdel does not let any child go behind.

Today the E

Who Art You?

Two recent articles reminisce a long standing question about art. One about how our beloved cave drawing grand-fathers turn out to be younger than we thought (here). Another one about the art of copycating as mastered by Pettibone during the Pop Art era (here).

Lichtenstein Masterpiece 1962, Roy Pettibone 1975

Although these articles deal with painters separated by a long line of births and deaths, they produce similar after thoughts.
1) Should Pettibone's pieces be considered works of art when compared to the originals which inspired them?
2) Suppose all these originals disappear or are destroyed, does the status of Pettibone's paintings change?
3) And what about if in 100 years we all think that Pettibone's paintings are the originals, will we praise them as masterpieces?
4) Just as we praise some cave drawings we recently found but that may well be mere reproductions of other original drawings forever lost.

Hum...

iScape Cisco: Thank you card

Point Reyes CA is blessed with a splendid sea shore, elks, deers, white deers, and a population who speaks out.

Point Reyes, February 2006