The Cork Timber, Slate and Cement Company

 

Cympel

 

sky 2

 

Been doing a little work tonight on this piece I’ve shown before.

wild

 

wet less wet

 

More inK

 

Mystery, Key

 

A headline from The Telegraph newspaper. Researchers just can’t figure out what has changed that, along with mysterious huge rise in heart issues affecting young people, there also now appears to be a surge of ‘epidemic’ proportions in cancer amongst fit young people. 

Is there any common denominator within the last short few years that was introduced into the physiological makeup of a huge percentage of the population that hadn’t been part of that physiological makeup prior to then? Perhaps the discovery of some new element in the human environment that wasn’t, as said, around previously, could be the key to unlocking the mystery - and the uncovering of this missing link could prove to be a metaphorical vaccine, if you will, warding off darkness and opening the door to the hallways of illumination.

Any ideas? Answers on a postcard.

Reason and Faith

 Reason will always find reasons not to have faith.

Not sure

Not sure how much I’d say I like this but here it is regardless.

dark flow, cat

 Something pretty random that just took a few seconds, and below that perhaps a cat.

Denim

Rockstar Spruce Pipedream has teamed up with Sir Tony Blair to record a new song, titled Wearing Denim to Show My Support for the Common Man. The song has a nostalgic 1980s vibe, whilst still feeling relevant to our times. Sir Tony and Spruce are advising listeners to “turn it up loud!” 

edit: Following criticism on the grounds of misogynistic exclusivity, the song has been changed to Wearing Denim to Show My Support for the Common People. Sir Tony and Spruce are still encouraging listeners to turn it up quite loud, but are now also gently advising people to err on the side of caution with regard to decibel levels and possible effects on their hearing. “We want your ears to be in a safe space,” said Sir Tony. “But we’re still talking about rock n roll!” added Spruce.

Nietzsche, Lenin, State Idolatry

 From Nietzsche's Of the New Idol chapter in Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people.'  

Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this as the sign of the State. 

 It is destroyers who set snares for many and call it a State. 

And with this in mind, a quick look or reminder of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, (or Marxist-Leninists). Broadly, under such statist ideologies the State is elevated to the highest power in life and effectively owns its citizens. The people don’t dwell in life, but rather the parameters of the State are said to be life itself. The state of existence and the State are one and the same!

So onto Lenin, and after he, in his benevolence, allowed general elections to Constituent Assembly in November 1917 the more moderate Socialist Revolutionaries won 41% of the vote, while Lenin's Bolsheviks gained 23.5%. Lenin's response was to dissolve the assembly, and carry on as a dictatorship, justified by the term "dictatorship of the proletariat". And anyone from now on felt to be a threat to the State dictatorship was declared and demonised as “an enemy of the people.” 

So exactly as Nietzsche described, this State stated itself to be “the people”, and so to be a threat to the State totalitarian system was to be, as said, “an enemy of the people.” The language of confusion.

Just to add, the typical modern transposition of that phrase “enemy of the people” appears to be “on the far-right”. And in some little snippet recently I saw an Irish governmental politician, when pressed as to what was meant by “far right”, and against which such threats the State was awarding itself powers to limit or silence “hate speech”, in her stumbling response, she mentioned a trait of being of the far-right was being “anti-government” and “anti-state.”

And even on that point, since what is historically meant by far-right is, just as with the far-left, a belief in the limitless elevation of the parameters of the State to absolute power over life, then to be ideologically of the far-right is certainly not to be “anti-state” - in fact the opposite. Though of course, despite the bandying about of words like “misinformation”, intellectual truth is not any kind of concern in these realms.

another one

 

Flux

 

Bad Tenants

 

Night

 

wet cAt

 

Hit-and-miss

 

A very quick hit-and-miss ink piece from last night.

imaGe

 

laNdsCape

 

Bunch

 There was a bunch of arseholes, and they banded together and tried to make themselves into one great arsehole.

 However successful they’d end up I admit to being of in ignorance, but I’d just suggest to never particularly trusting much in the union of arseholes.

Mattathias and the Officers of Antiochus at Modin

 

By Rembrandt, 1635.

Well

A man fell into a well, and when he came out he was full of darkness.

Someone else emerged from another well, and when he came out he was full of light.

Rockface

 

birD

 

Just something quick.

gate, grass

 

Honey

If something is coated in honey, all kinds of crap will stick to it.

Sumi-e: floating world

 

It’s a bit rough but something I went back to last night after its initial gestation a while back.

ground, house

 

Fumi

 

Other

 This is something I’d done on the other side of the sheet of the last image I posted. It’s not quite right but probably not as far off as I presumed - and so shouldn’t have gone and used the other side of the sheet to start something else.

Passionate

“Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?”

“I’m a very passionate person.”

“And what kinds of things are you passionate about?”

“Mostly just double-entry bookkeeping.”

isLand

 

I don’t think I’ve posted this one before, which I’ve had lying around for a good while and just touched up a bit.

Part: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

 

figURe

 

This isn’t quite how I’d like this to be, but here it is.