Dear At, Rick and Learners
We recently engaged ourselves here at LO in a thread that included
Michelangelo, what follows is a mere lighthearted gift for Rick our LO
host, to celebrate his artistry in acting as a keep of the portal of this
light and it's recent 3000 edition. Here is something Rick might recall
and which I write out. It is a note I found from Michelangelo to a cyber
pal of sorts Giovanni da Pistoia. What relation there could become between
being 'PIST';-) and 'metanOIA' is currently unclear to me. The problem
would have been for Rick as master of some Florentine LO listserv is... do
I publish this or not, does it offend good taste. Only time will tell;-)
Michelangelo writes upon his new task of painting the ceiling:
I've already ruptured myself from all this strain,
Just like it pisses down on cats in Lombardy,
or facing any other country, wherever it may be,
with my belly stuck up against my chin.
My beard points up to heaven, and I can feel my mind
crushed in a small box, my chest is like a harpy's
and my paint brush above my face makes my face,
with its dripping, a splendid floor.
My hips have entered my belly
making a counterweight of my arse
and without my eyes, I move in vain
But misleading and strange
rises the opinion that the mind brings
like the mischief you can make with a twisted peashooter
Come Giovanni and defend my dead painting
and my honour, as I am not in a good place now,
neither am I a painter.
[Collection Casa Buonarroti, Florence]
> I want to ask fellow learner Andrew Campbell to answer the perhaps
> impossible. How do painting artists make us aware of the 7Es, each in
> his/her peculiar manner? It is very difficult for me to tell in words what
> they tell in pictures. The best which I can do is to say that with light
> and life they trace what is beautiful and needs to be loved. Should
> Andrew's words come out as mysticism, for me it would be because words
> cannot paint like a picture does in unfolding the "hidden order".
So, with such a title and such a content...shall it be published?
Love and best wishes,
Andrew Campbell
(F)artist
[Host's Note: I publish items as long as they are reasonably related to
organizational learning. Sometimes it's a stretch... But this is not the
biggest stretch I've encountered. Fine art? OK by me. ..Rick]
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