A poem about a transformative friendship between an artist and a doctor, that began at a party explores the mesmerising, enchanting power of projection, and projective identification.
Category Archives: Random musings
“Eagles in my Daydreams, Diamonds in my Eyes”: Bowie, Blackstar & the Bataclan
At the time of the Bataclan slaying the Blackstar symbol, seen on Bowie’s ‘holy’ book was everywhere. Most curiously, it showed up on the hand of the Josh Homme, playing drums years earlier in the film clip for Speaking in Tongues. That song came to lead singer Jessie Hughes in a dream, he claimed. Fully formed. Blackstar was yet to be released. The Blind Seer wanted Eagles in his Daydreams, Diamonds in his eyes. He got his wish.
Curious Synchronicity. Lightning Strikes the Vatican and Mecca.
In my art, I work a lot with ideas around copper and electricity, current, spirituality and seizures, fire and charge. I always found this curious timing.
Heavens, Heathens and the Blind Seers
Perhaps somewhere in the liminal spaces between Word on a Wing, Loving the Alien, Bowie’s Lets Dance film clip shot in Aboriginal Australia and Heathen lies Gurrumul, the Blind Seer.
Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses
“Confront a corpse at least once” Bowie implored, “…the absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have” (Esquire 2004). His words accompanied a haunting photographic recreation by Steven Klein of Michelangelo’s Pieta in a prison cell, a strange androgynous figure draped like the lifeless body of Christ across Bowie’s lapContinueContinue reading “Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses”
Created for the Sublime
Desmond Tutu reminds us that humans are meant for the transcendent and beautiful things. During an event in Brisbane, Tutu diffused a cultural confrontation, delivered an inspiring message, and later invited an aggrieved elder to perform his sacred dance, transforming anger into grace.