impermissible transgression of human reason,

or just logic?

 

 

Ober (nobleman) for American Skat players who wanted a German-suited pack. Russell & Morgan Printing. A nobleman without arms? The work INFANTRY(1983) with twice the German question   ‘Wo bin ich’ (where am I) offers answers and also explains the special shape of this nose. Ober? On the one hand a nobleman, on the other hand the head waiter in Germany which is connected with the undetected INFANTRY narration.

 

 

 

Leaving New York in November 1979 with Fredy Laker`s Skytrain, a DC-10, my sweetheart SAMO© (18) left himself in my coffer so that he would always be with me. Had to swear to come back soon. I didn’t succeed. For decades, the coffer had disappeared, rediscovered, I realized that the then homeless SAMO©, was Jean Michel Basquiat. Who, two years later, made a breathtaking unfortunate career as an artist. In 2011, art historian Father Elias, a Dominican friar at St. Andrew’s in Düsseldorf, explained to me the Catholic symbolism.

 

 

TO AND FROM WALA

1. Wala! Wala! Awake! From lasting sleep wake I thee, slumberer, up. I call on thee now: arise! arise! From earth’s hidden caves, “Siegfried” 3rd act, scene 1, Richard Wagner. Wala, also known as a Völja, a seer in Germanic mythology. The Wala`s are wise women who specialise in the art of prophecy and necromancy. With the help of their wise gifts, they coax knowledge from the dead about events in the future.

2. One female and one male WALA  are in the Aboriginal mythology*. The female WALA Jean called in his work “The Kangaroo Woman that makes the rain to clean sick souls”. Her task is that of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut, to protect the sun overnight. To do that, she hides the sun in her pocket overnight to protect the land from drying out. 3.WALA Undayua, the lightning man feared by the Aborigines of northern Arnhem Land. He lived in the depths of the Liverpool River and considered the palm trees growing there his property. He killed anyone who so much as touched his palms in the dry season.

*The Dreamtime, Australian Aboriginal Myths, Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890 – 1976), Australian anthropologist.

ASNG

in my case. Strikethroughs… to make you look more closely, he explained. ASNG, a combination without meaning. But, rearranged, GANS, goose in German. Nut, the sky goddess had a brother husband, the earth god Geb. Depicted with a goose on his head. The 23rd saying of the Pyramid Texts, ‘Ostracism of the enemies of the pharaoh’, provides information about Geb. Source Prof. Dr. Dr. Jan Assmann, Heidelberg. Geb who protects Osiris, the God of fertility and the underworld. SANG, blood in French coherent with the blood in the work ‘???’ made with red ink and blood.

 

 

⚭ is a genealogical symbol for engaged or married which can also be seen as an eight, symbol of eternity. He worked with a color code, not fabricated, empirical, so to say natural. Orange stands for the eternal course of the sun, whose setting is orange as its rising. Depending on the mythology, the sun is swallowed by the Egyptian sky goddess Nut in the evening to be reborn in the morning. Or hidden by the Aboriginal goddess WALA in her bag overnight. The diptych shows a lot of orange. Rather hidden in it is a swastika on the left side. Not hidden, clearly written in the ‘???’ executed with blood and red ink.

 

 

The Swastika, an old sun wheel symbol of good luck was transformed in Deutschland by the Austrian Hitler to the contrary: a symbol of millions of deaths through industrial killing. Thought of in this way, ‘see reverse side’ becomes logical.

In ‘???’ with five questions E is all ⚭f them, so who is E? Even if you can trace back the IBAN code, question C, or question the artist Meuser, a Beuys Meisterschüler and 1979 a contemporary witness, it will not help.

 

The tent has the truth value of the Tent of the Congregation with the Ark of the Covenant, the 10 Commandments. Why he draw the dictator above and not next to the tent: Hitler set himself above  God`s law. Doubt? It is a factual truth that Hitler and his party violated the Ten Commandments. SALT is a homophone of thought. To communicate by hiding in plain sight? A stratagem in THE ART OF WAR. Reassured by his GOD LAW INDUSTRY. Of course equipped with a pyramid and the chemical formula for TNT.

 

 

Truth value?

A formal logic term dedicated to the truth value analysis. It understands interpretation as the extraction of something that is present in a work. Not as freedom of expression, attribution, invention, but as the discovery of the truth value of a sign. The truth value  of ⚭ is verifiable. The eyes, a power full tool an artist has to portray every condition of the human experience– and a body without arms? It was above all Gottfried Ephraim Lessing, the Polymath, who devoted himself to formal logic.

 

 

to begin at the beginning,

in October nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, my saxophone flies with me to New York.“Message in a bottle“ is on the radio, the Gramercy and Chelsea are fully booked. The first days a wooden floor near Columbia University, is night’s lodging.  The weather is warm. Californian avocados are offered on street corners, big as honeydew melons and tasteless. Landed with Beuys Meisterschüler Erinna König at Arleen Schloss studio in a treasure, a bed. Conveniently, a stage with a bed. Arleen spontaneously invited Beate Bartel, the Mania D bass player and me to perform. Just the two of us, bass and sax? SAMO© aka Basquiat, who showed COLOR XEROX that evening, supported us with a WASP synthesizer, all improvised. Who played the drum`s? We do not remember.

 

 

 

 

 

The next day SAMO© and I startet inventing music in Arleen`s bathroom with Michael Holman`s WASP synthesizer, the rhythm machine, the Selmer Sax, so we did not disturb our hostess. After the opening of the Beuys Retrospective in the Guggenheim  on November 1,  Erinna left the Broome Street 330, so Jean and I shared the chamber.  From my diary, „You are my slumber. Wait for Jean“ he recorded our invented music, disappeared to play it to his friends, came back quickly, sometimes hours later.

 

Magic Marker & Salvia

 With his salvia he blurred MAN MADE drew lines and dots and connected them with his saliva in a zigzag pattern. SAMO© ESTA EN ALGO? Samo is in something or on something, assuming his saliva is speaking for the latter. It`s an enigma, a love and protection spell. He defined the zigzag pattern, he defined SALVIA, he defined ©. To understand this, delve into magical thinking, the mythology of the Yoruba, the West Africans whose ancestors came from the Nile.

 

 

The Yoruba believe salvia, like all body fluids contains Àshe, God’s power to create action, writes Dr. Hazzard-Donald, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University.  „….for many Yoruba, red, „supreme presence of color, signals ashe. R. F. Thompson, Flash of the Spirit, Random House p. 6, 1983. `“He believed in the magic of the moment, in a cosmic synergy, the use of matched mind and was able to make it visible. He was a magician, not as a hoax: He followed his supernatural instincts. The Loa, the voodoo gods, were known from Haiti and from Charlie Parker’s music, and he knew that the African gods had adapted to modern times. He believed in talismans and sympathetic magic.“, Glenn O’Brien, Catalog Basquiat Retrospective, Beyeler Foundation, Hatje Cantz, 2010.

 

© MAGIC POWER ICON?

It would take too long here to prove to you exactly that Jean meant © for áshe in the sense of the  magic divine power of creation. In this sense, his use of the copyright sign also corresponds to Thomas Aquinas‘ proofs of the existence of God. Incidentally, Aquinas‘ also leads an undiscovered existence in Jean’s art.

 

SAMO© ESTA EN ALGO– Spanish?

From “Lost in translation” Dr. Kellie Jones, catalog Basquiat retrospective Brooklyn Museum 2005, p.171 . If you follow her argumentation, he had already planned as an 18-year-old how to use Spanish in his work. I wondered why his use of Spanish in my suitcase, did not know that language. An answer offers his notebook,

 

 

was orphaned at 15. The change from singular to plural? In the work “Job Analisis” you read “SECRET IDENTITYs”. His  Œuvre is full of them, turning canvases into a Divine Comedy. All undetected, his iconology eludes academically trained thinking by art historians. And my open letters to those responsible, including his heirs, remained unanswered.

 

With Alan Vega aka Alan Boroch Bermowitz  from the band „Suicide“ we discussed a „Metropolitan symphony“ according to the principles of „Musique concrète“ with everyday sounds from the streets of NYC.

 

 

My Selmer on which I showed him how to play. He wanted to practise without me telling him not to inflate his cheeks and asked me to lend it, hesitated, it was my only valuable possession, bought in Paris in May 1979. He stuck my initials on it with silver thread. I understood his actions, to practised secretly elsewhere. I was told that he had gone for a walk with the saxophone, very proudly. Halloween Nite before the Beuys Retrospective at A`s. 31 13-31 & SHOT DOT BLOT an incantation with pendulum and Sax. It was the closing event for the COLOR XEROX works.

 

 

 

test Pattern

his first band & essence of his art.