amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae

Thursday, 27 October 2011

Amphitheatrum Sapietiae Aeternae

The Invocation of a Poussianist inheritance between the spatial doctrines of several species and lifeforms archived in the form of a two dimensional touring sketchbook Wordeggs .




The first stage of the great work better known as the Alchemists Laboratory prior to disembarking from the old priory at St.Hilary to begin casting a foment abroad.
In defiance of the powers of corruption our almanack begins with a whisper of gestation a distant barely audible heartbeat, concealed from the marauding interceptions of the power seekers.
The Cockoot and the Death Hawks larvae pregnant with Poussinsm
First you're born and then you burn, but didn't you burn so very brightly...?
The Owls egg, rounded by secret knowledge and nocturnal wisdom, the Sea Hogh's egg hunted by the Suleskerries though it changes from umber to grey still it is their prey.



Twin Fowls "Cornwhylen", in Lusitania the clutch is blue from the seaweed diet beyond this invisible border they produce the familiar yellowish colour.



Divination via the unhatched eggs of ground nesting fowls who sat in vain.



Oll ahanan a vynn krysi an pyth a lever ev bys pan y'n dispreffi.



Delirv



The Gorse Witch Gwraghethyn



Dewhelans



The silence of the watchman, a huge ox has stepped onto my tongue.



Invective during Interregnum 
PARODOS: bid me step onto the purple tapestry into the Oikos.



HUBRIS: the libation (could be a painting...yet.
The Dark Monarch inveigles.An empty grave.
Prima Materia

 Two locks of hair were placed upon the stone, footprints led them away, the ghost departs like the old man of the sea, A wretched piteous dove, in quest of food, dashed amid the winnowing fans, the blood that Mother Earth consumes clots hard, it won't seep through, it breeds revenge and frenzy goes through the guilty. Man cannot hope to build a progressive civilization if he is steeped in a perpetual bloodbath. A way out must be found, a new more civilized law.;PHILOS-APHILOS

La sorcière Gorse va mourir d'un désir avide de gloire imméritée.



 
 
 



Sunday, 17 July 2011

Drawing in Performance & Votive Drawings


Drawing Jazz in a non figurative state of mind





 




Votive Drawings an exhibition by Jonathan Polkest

Bromley Arts Council
London BR1 2PX
Some background information about  24 small works in this exhibition. Originally the main body of these small votive drawings began in the early 1990’s in the British Museum London and in NSW Art Gallery Australia. The idea of investigating such potent symbols was as much a personal quest to interpret the clouded expressions of human existence in the face of the obfuscated historical background so often overlooked by mainstream historical analyses.
The Votive Drawings exhibition has been shown over the last decade in many guises, gradually becoming less in number as works were sold and not replaced but taking on different nuance reflecting the place and time in which they are shown.
1.votive painting of Wicca. Water based gouache on gesso board.

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2 votive painting of Rosewall, Acrylic Gesso on panel*

3 Cycladic Head with gold leaf ground

4 Coquille St.Jacque silver point on gesso panel

5 Votive Roman Horse – Epona

6 Romano Celtic Bronze Boar

7 Blue bronze boar

8 Ganesh – graphite ground on gesso panel.

9The Rillaton Cup – an object from Cornish antiquity.

10.Head of a Cat – gold leaf & encaustic on panel

    11. Cycladic Head II silver point on panel

12. Chariot Talisman of a man with a boar.

13. Samothracian Boar effigy

14.Khymer Head of a Princess

15. Scallop of St.James Santiago de Compostella

16. Ceramic Boar maquette

17. Cycladic Head III

18. Australian spinifex handled stone blade knife


19. drawing of a ceramic Chinese Boar on panel with pigment

20 drawing of an Egyptian Head carved in Granite in the BM

21. drawing in graphite on abraded gesso panel of a calf’s head

22. Cornish Greenstone Axe head on softwood panel

23. Kuber vedic idol of the god of wealth.

24. a small votive painting of a horse*


*denotes not in original exhibitions Sydney, Brighton, Waterford and  Camborne.
All works are for sale £125. each.