Still Life

Apples. Oranges. Jugs. Linen on Table.

The beginning of still Life.

Then figs, pears and exotic.

Looking at Mendelez's hacked water melon dripping, ripped pomegranate with glistening pink pearls, cantaloupe with the seeds still held in the sticky mass, hanging.

Fish. Lobster. They join the rank too. For them its an antithesis to be called still life.

Mendelez's artichokes, cauliflower are the most unexpected.


Master of the Spanish Still Life

Museum

is a dream
with its incongruities

A high outdoor pedestal
Friezes from walls
apart in place and time

you as the curator
maintain the inventory

know what binds the
episodes in your dream

Do you own just this museum?

Do you sometimes loan?

The dreams lost in travel
were they old
would their loss not be felt?

Is there a cast of the original?

Different dreams. different casts
of the same origin.


19th century collection of classical casts, Slater Memorial Museum
pg 76. Travels in the history of architecture, Robert Harbison.

Travel with books

I am on a virtual trip to Jamaica with Lonely Planet and youtube. I like it so far. Dunn falls with its staircases and the greenery. Dolphins shy kisses.

Dreamhouse

I dreamt of this wondeful house which had many rooms and there were many surprises, some sections of the house were engaging. Imagine enrichment. Before dozing to sleep, I was flipping through French Country Kitchens. One main picture I like is of half vertical walls into the dining room which served as shelves for 3 rows of cookbooks on either side.
Another dream that I remember from few years ago had ahouse which had many gadgets all well concealed.

Culture

In Culture and Psychology, Yang (1982) distinguished between two forms of achievement motivation: individually oriented and socially oriented (compare Maehr & Nicholls, 1980).
Growing up, I knew I had to study well as my parents were working hard for my education.

Dreamworks

There is a saucepan with savory snacks and potatoes reduced in milk. I see a man carrying a basket with a lettuce layer which could hold half a dozen cabbages with two cabbages to a side and lots of green from some sort of herb like coriander or dill. Before sleeping, I flipped pages of
Veselka cookbook
Before I slipped into sleep, I heard a bit of Edwin Peterson's Penns Woods west - Hostel with almost a score people going out on their bikes into woods.
My dad and I go on bicycles from a sloping bridge. On the left, we view the church from a higher point of view. The second floor inside with the ground wider by a room width all around.
While going down the bicycle I ended up holding onto the second level railing, while the bicycle and I were at the ground. Ahead of me are stairs. At this angle, I am about to topple. I see that I can get down the stairs? How did I manage to get off the bicycle. I go back up the stairs and bring my bicycle down.

Paralysis

We are every moment conscious of internal power: while we feel, that, by the simple comand of our will, we can move the organs of our body, or direct the faculties of our mind - D Hume

Until one day, you can not instruct your legs to move.
Your lucky legs without polio have led you everywhere you wished, even into the problems that you were afraid of walking into. It is not that the legs themselves that have become heavy and pulled you to the ground. The communication channels have been snapped. The network in your body is now snags. No amount of the sensation inside your body will shock those muscles into action. In your mind, you try again to pump the power that you had from the time you thought.