{"id":1911,"date":"2012-05-20T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:52:54","slug":"be-my-guest-billy-collins-and-william-kentridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/be-my-guest-billy-collins-and-william-kentridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my Guest: Billy Collins and William Kentridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my virtual sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. <\/span><\/h3>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lf69NbUlZXk<\/h3>\n

Introduction to Poetry by:\u00a0 Billy Collins<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

I ask them to take a poem<\/span><\/strong>
\nand hold it up to the light<\/span><\/strong>
\nlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I say drop a mouse into a poem<\/span><\/strong>
\nand watch him probe his way out,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

or walk inside the poem’s room<\/span><\/strong>
\nand feel the walls for a light switch.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I want them to waterski<\/span><\/strong>
\nacross the surface of a poem<\/span><\/strong>
\nwaving at the author’s name on the shore.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But all they want to do<\/span><\/strong>
\nis tie the poem to a chair with rope<\/span><\/strong>
\nand torture a confession out of it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

They begin beating it with a hose<\/span><\/strong>
\nto find out what it really means.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

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Billy Collins <\/a>and William Kentridge <\/a>are both an inner master-teachers of mine. Alongside their wonderful\u00a0art- they\u00a0give me courage to deal with the loneliness of the studio process.\u00a0Their creativity, humour and humbleness is deeply meaningful to me. They both teach me that in the studio – “Anything is possible”.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Since I think they share a sense of humour and the ability to see their humanity from aside- I wish them both to meet here.<\/span><\/h3>\n

I chose\u00a0 fragments\u00a0 of their work\u00a0where\u00a0 I see a common denominator<\/span><\/h3>\n

Instructions\u00a0Collins gives his students are masterly crafted by William Kentridge<\/span><\/h3>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5s2gzelT0g4<\/span><\/h3>\n

Perhaps anything is possible and they\u00a0will \u00a0both to be a part of the project: Reviving Ancient Alexandria Library.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

I wonder which cultural ancestor each of them would choose to relate to.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Ancient Alexandria Library-my story, part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ancient Alexandria Library-my story, part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ancient Alexandria Library-my story, part 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On top: William Kentrige drawing\u00a0 Two Typwriters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BE MY GUEST is a venue for others to share their art; I assemble between creators in my virtual sitting room. Linear time and locality are not relevant. httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lf69NbUlZXk Introduction to Poetry by:\u00a0 Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slideor press an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,1,85,100],"tags":[46,369,367,368,714,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}