Emulsion and paper on hand tied acrylic vase 20cm x 11cm 2021

Marilyn what are you laughing at? 1955

emulsion. on anticeramic vase 20cm x 9cm 2021

BUNNY WALL STORAGE

MARILYN IT MIGHT EVEN BE A KIND OF A RELIEF TO BE FINISHED EXCERPT 1955 – 2023

In 1955 Godard’s first film is about the perilous path that he was taking as he sought to enter the cinema and the moral dangers awaiting

Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, Une Femme Coquette tells of a young woman who decides to copy the gesture she has seen prostitutes making to passing men. She understands little of what the gesticulations actually mean until a young man (Rolan Tolmatchoff) responds.

The theme is the question of imitation. It is a film about watching

About trying to love what one has watched and the dangers involved.

It is about fear and embarrassment shame and prostitution

About doing for money what is currently done for love

How someone unintentionally practices it by merely imitating the gestures

The cinema has always been a touchstone a reference of moral and artistic measure.

Especially in the forties and fifties cinema was conceived as having a privileged relation to both reality and the imaginary.

JEAN LUC GODARD ON THE DICK CAVETT TV SHOW 1980

In the last episode of Histoire Du Cinema Godard quotes from a story by Jorge Luis Borges

‘whilst asleep a man dreams of going on a journey and receives a flower and on waking finds that flower as proof of passage. I was that man.’

Borges in turn had quoted the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

‘If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?’

WHITE LILAC PURITY AND INNOCENCE

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