Charlayn von Solms
@charlayn
Sculptor, lapsed academic I use assemblage to create contemporary art based on the compositional strategies of Archaic Greek oral-formulaic poetry.
"Great Odysseus wore a mantle of purple wool, double lined, and it was fastened by a gold brooch with two catches for the pin." Od.19:225
Cue Shirley Jackson's epic response to a person who was under the mistaken impression that informing a writer that you don't approve of their work/conduct/ideas/etc. will somehow shame/inspire them to change everything about themselves just to please a random idiot.
Just checked Chrome where I keep deselecting all the AI features to find a new one had appeared without notification and it was turned on 😡 (Never used Gmail until a former employer insisted I get an address because they did everything on Google docs. Now looking for an off-ramp).
Dear Europeans, it is currently gloriously cool in Cape Town with a light refreshing rain. And since it's technically 'winter' here, all fares are discounted.
I love a good rasp planer. I love it so much I used it on and in a sculpture (this was an old Stanley Concave Surform 21-105)
Must have been an entry-level stork. At the executive level, it is customary for storks to rely on the secretary to do the snake kicking for them.
Temperamental performing frog no. 4: Asklepios ΟΙΞΕΣΘΑΙ 1. Wields a vegetable peeler to take your outsides off and a tin opener to take your insides out. 2. Was electrocuted by Zeus for redirecting traffic away from Hades. 3. Pretends to be a collection of objects as soon as someone looks at him.
Temperamental performing frog no. 3: Herakles ΑΘΑΝΑΤΑΙ 1. Will come for dinner, get drunk, and kill you. 2. Will invite you over for dinner, get drunk, and kill you. 3. Thinks wearing taxidermy is a bold fashion statement. 4. Pretends to be a collection of objects as soon as someone looks at him.
Does that explain why your handle is now been rendered an invalid?
Temperamental performing frog no. 2: Muse ΑΟΙΔΗΝ 1. Has a harpoon-like voice to ensnare listeners over vast distances. 2. Will mute anyone who questions her superiority. 3. Enjoys sailing, fishing, and telling tall tales. 4. Pretends to be a collection of objects as soon as someone looks at her.
Temperamental performing frog no. 1: Apollo ΝΟMΟΣ 1. Tells the Pythia what the future holds. 2. Kills men from afar with his arrows (Artemis does the women) 3. Knows every social law and rule. 4. Plays a mean lyre solo. 5. Pretends to be a collection of objects as soon as someone looks at him.
Menelaus in the Iliad: the sad loser whose big brother has to fight his battles for him. Menelaus the Odyssey: not just the guy who made it home safe, and now has it all, he's discovered that being son-in-law to Zeus will earn him a blissful life after death in the Elysian Fields. Epic glow-up
Eris getting ready to go and wreck a wedding, launch a high-stakes beauty contest, destroy a marriage, start a war, and inspire some really bad behaviour in everyone involved (all resulting in an epic or two).
"abandoning the positivists' search for a "real" Hesiod is crucial if we are to put poetics first. Then we might appreciate Hesiod as "a mask for many anonymous voices ... and explore the way in which the "autobiographical remarks of the poet" always serve a specific function" (Richard P. Martin)