Slovakia 2006


 

The Museum of Fine Arts
Liptovsky Mikulas
SLOVAKIA

2006
Mixed media on bark paper

 


Beginning
120/120


Advice for the Expectant  
120/120

The sounds of what is beginning
will be mixed
with the sounds of what is ending

Raúl Aceves
Excerpt from the poem “The dreams of power”, in Esfera, No 1, 2nd stage, 1985.

 


 


Dreams of Power
80/120

 


 


Be still when it’s time to listen
to the silence that move us.
120/80


Be still when it’s time to listen
to the silence that move us.
120/80

 


 


Among Fluorite Javelines
80/120


Among Fluorite Javelines
80/120

One of us ought to begin to pull out the resonances
someone ought to climb up and wield the generous guitar
until the sun comes back
until its light comes and kisses these flames
left to us by a watchful night

Ricardo Castillo
Excerpt from the poem “Live concert”, in Buril, No 10, 1979

 


 

Live Concert
89/120

 


 


Thirst 
120/80


Water
120/80


Infinity
120/80


 


Islands in Free Fall
120/80

 


 


She knows how long Time lasts
120/80

 


 


Noise and Childbirth
120/80

a flock of drops,
the downpour of unseeing applause;
noise and birth


Luis Medina

Excerpt from the poem “Island in Free Fall”, in Una isla desde la ventana
(Jalisco Department of Culture, Guadalajara), c1994.

 


 


A Map on Skin
120/120


Stunning
120/120

because a rootless being
a motherless being is one
who does not grab his guitar
and play what his heart his head his body tells him
one on one with himself

Ricardo Castillo
Excerpt from the poem “Live concert”, in Buril,
No 10
, 1979.

 


 


It roots us out
80/120

I love what cannot be said,
what pulls out our roots, the primal screams, the primary
visions…

Ricardo Castillo
Excerpt from the poem “Live concert”, in Buril, No 10, 1979.

 


 


Rocks on Edge
60/80

 


 


More and More Sun
60/80

 


 


Dislocations and Crossings
80/60

 


 


Time dies on the edge of the world inside
the conch: returning spiral

60/80


Stunning
120/120

Time expires on the border of the world
inside the conch: returning spiral

Raúl Aceves
Excerpt from the poem “Dislocations”, in Dislocaciones y travesías, (ITESO, Guadalajara)

 


 


She’s ever being born
80/60

 


 


Wind and Lip of Silence Placed on the Spell’s Pulp
40/60

 


 


An Island from the Window
40/60

 


 


Weren’t we once fish of air and smoke?
60/40

 


 


Light’s Memory
40/60

 


 


The House of the Seafaring Poet
40/60

…light has become
crystal objects, poetic geometry,
an eye that enlarges the small

Raúl Aceves
Excerpt from the poem “The house of the nautical poet”, in Dislocaciones y travesías,
(ITESO, Guadalajara), c1997.

 


 


Fugitive Flower of the Tropics
40/60

What parrot, from its roof, called forth
the first sun with its red cry?

Raúl Aceves
Excerpt from the poem “Tower of Palenque”, in La mirada del camaleón, antología personal, (ediciones Arlequín, Fonaculota and Fonca, Mexico City), c2002.

 


 


What star instilled this astronomy?
60/40

From what star did he learn his astronomy,
from what school his priesthood and geometry?

Raúl Aceves
Excerpt from the poem “Tower of Palenque”, in La mirada del camaleón, antología personal, (ediciones Arlequín, Fonaculota and Fonca, Mexico City), c2002.

 

 


 


Morning Split
60/40

Fractured morning,
the cloud pods
drop their seed.

Luis Medina
Excerpt from the poem “Orangeade”, in Una isla desde la ventana
(Jalisco Department of Culture, Guadalajara), c1994.

 


 


You tell my silence and I hear your sounds
40/60

You tell my silence and I hear your sounds.
Ah, only babbling can make sense.

Ricardo Castillo
Excerpt from the poem “Like white sheets”, in Antología del Segundo Festival Internacional de Poesía, 1984.

 

 


 


Butterflies of Glowing Fire
40/60