2 December 2024

What are they drinking? Coca-Cola?
A poem full of questions—shall we try to ask the right ones?

Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola?
Is it the same thing? Sugar in water?
Excess. Glamour. Trading heavy blows, costing billions—for what?
So they can drink Coca-Cola and Pepsi?

There is so much loud noise.
I can barely see the horizontal pattern.

There is a switch on the wall—can we switch this on or off?
Should we?

Red, white, and blue are everywhere.
Whoever they are, they’ve come to the negotiating table,
but there's too much noise between them—
too much representation interfering with presentation.

Still, I see a channel that extends through all three.
Who do we listen to?
Those drinking only fire?
Or those drinking fire and water?

So—who is that lady drinking the fire-water?

3 December 2024

Wissen. Kennen. Erkennen.
Cognition. Recognition.
Present. Represent.

Knowing a person cannot be fully represented.
At some point, direct experience is necessary.
The part that cannot be passed along or taught.

The middle figure’s hand makes an interesting gesture—
a blob of blue and white paint.
A packet of crisps?
A bunch of white flowers?

Whatever it is, it seems stuck in his throat—
stuck in his craw.

Some figure is emerging behind him—
a griffon? A lion?
It drinks fire-water from a glass.

Now there's a stapler on the table.
The middle guy wants to bind two things together, painfully,
by driving a staple through them both.

I see Santa Claus’s face repeating in the pattern above.
Are we going to make it to 2025?

The middle figure is missing his eyes—justice?

The women on the left and right are entirely different—
as indicated by the patterns rising above them.

I wonder: will the background pattern become random snow in the animation?
Or will it reveal some emerging design?

The woman on the right has a green pillar running through her—
Nature? Envy?

Paradoxically, she seems to hold more fire-water within
than the other woman, who is drinking it.

Dichotomy.
Fire-water.
Left hemisphere. Right hemisphere.
Two ways of being in the world: opposed, but necessary.

This painting suggests a third thing—
a medium between the two.
Binding them.
Painfully forcing them to cooperate.

The tension that exists
in the most profound reaches of our minds—
minds full of consumer goods.

Balance in tension.