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These are some of all that's left: A Confrontation | The Kraken (linocut) | The Kraken (pencil) | Kiyomizu-dera Temple | The arrival of Mahalaleel at Bellefleur | John Cowper Powys | Sylvester
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| This recently-framed lino cut print is 'A Confrontation' from 1982. I particularly like the faux-stressed wood frame, added by Studio 275 in Earlwood. |
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Lino cut of Tennyson's 'The Kraken', made in 1982.
'The Kraken' was originally published in Poems, Cheifly Lyrical (1830). The note appended to the poem in the Norton Critical Edition (1971) says: "A mythical Norwegian sea-beast from Scandinavian folklore, here identified with the beast of the Apocalypse. See Revelation, 13:1".
Robert W. Will, Jr., of Middlebury College, Vermont, who edited the volume, says that the line "Battening on huge sea-worms in his sleep..." (which you can see about two-thirds of the way down my print) echoes a line from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (IV, i, 542). |
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| Pencil drawings in my album 'Indications of My Escapes into My Reality'. Note that I transcribed Tennyson's poem. The page immediately preceding this one has a date: 17 May 1982. |
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Lino cut of Kiyomizu-dera (Clear-water Temple) in Kyoto. Based on a photo (also shown) taken during my 1982-83 visit to Japan.
Following my return, mum adopts four identical prints from the same block and adds colour. These I frame. |
 
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| Ink drawing, 'The arrival of Mahalaleel at Bellefleur', a scene from the novel Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates (1980). |
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| Ink and biro drawing, 'Something like JCP', a portrait of John Cowper Powys. |
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| Linocut, 'Sylvester', from a drawing of my part-time cat, Franklin Street, Glebe. |
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