The Poetic Reconstruction of Reality: Insights from Gabriel García Márquez

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Introduction In the rich tapestry of Latin American literature, Gabriel García Márquez’s “100 Years of Solitude” stands as a towering work, weaving together reality and magical realism. In Chapter 15 of Gerald Martin’s biography, titled “Melquiades, The Magician,” we find a profound reflection on Márquez’s approach to storytelling. This reflection offers a unique perspective on […]

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Alone Together at Café Café

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Alone Together at Café Café  There is music playing everywhere. A young couple, alone together at Café Café Prague discuss their living arrangements. Plan next departures with built-in rendezvous points, all the while dreaming alternate lines of flight they never speak about. An author of some renown scribbles notes as she listens to the conversations

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MetaWhimsical Fragments & other poetical ditties

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Hey Chaze, don’t you know… There are dimples in your perception, Doubts and ditties too profound to mess with. Take cover in the undertow, my friend! Gnostic fabulation is all the rage these days, Takes the edge off indirection and misdeeds, It’s not time yet to proceed so take the temporary route. Be radically temporal

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Metawhimsical Variations: An Introduction

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“Welcome to ‘Metawhimsical Variations,’ a collection of poems and commentary that explores the intersections of the serious and the fantastical, the weighty and the lighthearted. Drawing inspiration from both the metaphysical and the whimsical, these poems offer a playful yet (possibly) profound reflection on the mysteries of existence. Through a variety of forms and styles,

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Art Making through Thinking Feeling Sensing and Intuition

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I am exploring thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition as a visual artist, engaged with the concepts of diffraction, becoming abstract, assemblage as per Delueze, Barad, Grosz. Do these ideas and authors discuss “feeling, sensing and intuition” through those concepts? Yes, the concepts of diffraction, becoming abstract, assemblage, and the authors you mentioned all touch upon

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Mondrian’s Window

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Mondrian’s Window is a multi-layered, multi-media painting that draws upon the work of several seminal artists. The piece begins with an abstracted black lattice that pays homage to the renowned work of Piet Mondrian. However, the traditional sense of order and structure is disrupted, and instead, we are presented with a fractured, fragmented version of

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Figments, Fragments, and Fractures in the Matrix

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  Canto 1 There are dimples in your perception, Doubts and ditties too profound to mess with. Take cover in the undertow! Gnostic fabulation goes a long way these days, Takes the edge off indirection and misdeeds. It’s not time yet to proceed, so Take the temporary route, Be radically temporalizing in your deliberations, Seek

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