Saturday, April 19, 2008

A Catalonian Cosmology: Part One
























Joan Miró (1893 - 1983) - The Constellations (1-11 of 23), 1941


'And I will now describe the experience of wondering at the existence of the world by saying: it is the experience of seeing the world as a miracle. Now I am tempted to say that the right expression in language for the miracle of the existence of the world, though it is not any proposition in language, is the existence of language itself. But what then does it mean to be aware of this miracle at some times and not at other times? For all I have said by shifting the expression of the miraculous from an expression by means of language to the expression by the existence of language, all I have said is again that we cannot express what we want to express and that all we say about the absolute miraculous remains nonsense.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Addendum II: Hermits, Perverts and Extroverts

In Praise Of Strangers To Normality



Henry Darger (In The Realms of the Unreal, 2004 - d. Jessica Yu)




Robert Crumb (Crumb, 1994 - d. Terry Zwigoff)




Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh, 2004-2008 . . . )