The paint drip, the illegible;
ancient script to match the concession
as in Queen
except if inverted
Ti- mespace with hiccough (coughHic)
the 'i' in a Papyrus font huddling by
its preceding lettr

'Cheaters' where client
Pete*Paul continually seeks to obscure partner's name

More hiccoughing (cupping?)
'I' misread as O,
and the dangerous
M which looks like K
turning millWheel into
Killwheel

*see visual -- Oulipian game(font - 2Peas Masterpiece) CD does not have a capital 'R'.

"How everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone,
As it had to..."
Poet as art critic. W.H. Auden wrote this about a ptg. of Icarus (Breughel).

"Mori-san had "...long abandoned the use of the traditional dark outline to define his shapes, preferring instead the Western use of blocks of colour with light and shade to create a three-dimensional appearance...
"Use of subdued colours.
"Capturing the feel of lantern light..."

As I've tried to indicate, Ishiguro's literature, like explosives, sometimes 'goes off'. Take: "Because her visit this year was so brief, and because she spent it staying at Noriko (sister) and Taro's new home..." covers the wedding.
Detective investigations are over. The old man (Nov. 1949) once floating world artist, can relax to tell (to himself) about coming up in the world -- 1913 - early 1930s -- his teacher's villa, nine fellow students, floating world paintings -- "modern Utamaro" full of European influences. Mori-san's Tying a Dance Drum, After a Bath (woman seen from the back); woman holding a towel to her face, combing out her long hair", the esteemed teacher also "expressing emotion through the textiles which the woman holds or wears", etc.

Ono as artist. The place is Furakawa ca 1913. In a "long room above a restaurant...fifteen easels in a row."
"The Taketa firm prided itself on its ability to provide a high number of paintings at very short notice..."
"...commissioned to paint geishas, cherry trees, swimming carps, temples, etc."

With her small son - annual visit to her father - an older sister catches up on news with her younger sister. The father, a former artist, tells of it (to himself) in a courtly, full way. He picks up on characteristic (Japanese) evasions, seemingly making some of his own. It is Oct., 1948. Suddenly, amid low key, elab. descr. of bomb repairs, peripheral devastatn, prewar eminence, layered domesticity there comes a one-sentence trip line. More structure. Small grandson. Then another wire. A reader my age looks up and around to calibrate: 'I'm back at 1945 w stuff that's emotive, painful. How'd it happen?'
Ishiguro copyrighted ... FLOATING WORLD in 1986 in his early thirties. REMAINS OF THE DAY came later.

Many corners have I turned: lvg Vancouver for Toronto 1949; lvg Toronto for Mtl 1951; birthing my first daughter; studying judo in Mtl.* -- they were corners. And a return to Vcr turn- of- the- yr. 1955.
Later there were interests in Japanese short stories, TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION by Yukio Mishima plus successns of collectns Japanese prints/ references, etc. etc. Then the whole Chinese experience.
A garment portion printed -- I know where it is, in a vintage fabrics box up high on a shelf in my closet but I won't go into it now, if ever. One fabric soft, silky, delicate is there from the polyester print era and has on it antique depictions of "nocturnal realms of pleasure, entertainment, and drink" that is to say, 'floating worlds'.
And more flashes -- a 'Ukiyo-e (floating world)' entry on a June 2004 handwrit index of items forged, the Mtl. memory and my current reading by Kazuo Ishiguro (author, REMAINS OF THE DAY) of his novel entitled AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD.
* for studies re 'balance', not self- defence

On pp.34 and 35 of an adapted 'Combray' out of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, the story goes from ample robes worn by a kitchen- girl in an '...advanced state of pregnancy' comparing them to drapery depicted by Giotto -- Virtue/ Vice allegories in a chapel in Padua.
Framed/ hung copies of Karitas, Justicia, Infidelitas et al were given to the narrator by Swann. Both volumes of the Subject novel are lost; I cannot check that in the original, prints were hung in a hallway as shown in the graphic novel currently giving pleasure.
The narrator as a boy took no pleasure in these copies and on p.35 we see why. Six panels of 'mannish virgins'; pretty ugly. Not easy going even for comicslit -- www.nbmpublishing.com -- but finally aiding absorption of Proust's convoluted prose:
"But later I understood that the special beauty of the frescoes lay in the fact that the symbolic was represented therein as real, as if it happened or had been manipulated, just as it was the weight pushing her belly out that drew attention to the kitchen-girl."

To peek at the 'poor, sickly creature' will confirm face animation conventions -- a posting of Feb. 11th.

Polly 2. I also toted cabbage rolls from my parents'(N. Bby - S.Bby) to other dwellings, down perilous Bby Heights - hadn't been driving for long -- and up the perilous part of Boundary Rd.
Years passed. As my mother aged, food went in the other directn S. Bby to N. Bby (hills still perilous - sometimes descending to fog). More yrs. ... to the co-op where my youngest and I lived. I'd long graduated from my mom's garlic/rice/pork-beef/tinned saurkr... to tomato using similar meat mixture but was always making both varieties at one shot. Finally, my stepfather took over making one kind but fearful of burned results, diluting the tomatoes w too much water. That would've been the early 1990s.
Last time I did 'cabbage' (both types) was to show my youngest how, but didn't put in enough rice. Must remember to tell her that.

With daughter, 5 and son a toddler -- living just down the hill from Central Park we had a Ukranian landlady, Polly (Polina) who sewed out of old overcoats (approx. 1957, 12 yrs after WWII), very heavy quilts (Gogol's Overcoat - was it serge?).
My polly logcabin pattern quilt lasted for decades to be ultimately ensconced in a car trunk against 'the emergency'.

Polly would sometimes treat us to dinner. In her style, the cabbage was rolled exceeding' fine: buckwheat/ bacon bits in grape leaf. And saurkraut? was it? her own? can't remember.
A memory fragm., distaff -- kids asleep -- upstairs in Polly's house - me, 28, working single parent utterly exhausted. That night marked the first time dishes were left in a sink; things I couldn't tackle.

"It is wasted effort to seek to evoke our past. All the efforts of our intelligence are useless. It is hidden beyond the intellect's domain and reach, in some material object that we do not suspect."
. . . . . . - Marcel Proust (Combray) (a Madeleine cake shaped like a shell, seems approx. 2" across.)

And once I didn't suspect a cucumber pulled fresh x the vine. There, my maternal grandfathr in front of me!

Almost a decade ago, an Italo Calvino reference from SIX MEMOS FOR A MILENNIUM (see visual) became standard for explaining artefacts in my work.
I posted an incipit Feb.01 because I was pissed off at folkloric stereotypes triggered by Calvino's ITALIAN FOLKTALES e.g. father w daughters to get married. Also consider his INVISIBLE CITIES or IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER... He's gone now. Calvino. Replete with imagery.

Able to no more than glance any one time at this man's oeuvre, I recently dared another dip ...FOLKTALES p.18 where a lion says to Jack (tales retold in contemp.language) "I'm giving you one of my claws...". Had thought my own dragon (Feb.07 herein) lost a claw thru battle/ accident. However, were it to have been a gift, a more suitable behemoth might have straddled a 1949 V.T.P attempt -- Valley of the Ten Peaks - our own Rockie mtns - or that 1980s version posted Feb 7th. Doesn't matter now. It seems late.

Reading long lists of movie/ tv credits brings home what Brink says about clients (and increasing- trends in music, art, etc.) -- the importance of all ages specializing in group dynamics: 5. "Trust, communication and clear agreements... ingredients for good collaboration and an equally good result."

All underlining is mine. From Dutch lighting expert (mag. OBJEKT p.78). "... light architect's professn... a compromise betw art and science."
1. "colour: light determines the radiation of a colour;
2. "if the gen'l lightng is bright/ direct, a space can be assessed at a glance;
3. "what locatns (art/ furn/ texture) are to be accentuated?
4. "...with light one can add rhythm,
Turning the above on its side: the lighting effects of CSI: Miami point to a new direction.<

if you missed watching tv, Bravo, yesterday, goto TheDrawingMaster.com -- The hour featured Paul Long, formerly Drawing Master Ontario College of Art and Design.