30 December 2011

when DOVES cry

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Little emerald bird
wants to fly away
If I cup my hand
could I make him stay?

Little emerald soul
Little emerald eye
Little emerald soul
Must you say goodbye?

All the things that we pursue
All that we dream
are composed as nature knew
In a feather green

Little emerald bird
As you light afar
It is true I heard
God is where you are

Little emerald soul
Little emerald eye
Little emerald bird
We must say goodbye
Patti Smith


Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1979.



Mapplethorpe self-portrait, 1975.



Linsday Key, photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1985.


Read about the UnHATE DOVE  art installation sponsored by Benetton & given to LIBYA on Christmas Eve this year. Using 15000 empty cartridges, the UnHATE DOVE sculpture is part of the Benetton Group’s UnHATE Foundation program













pictures from VOGUE it here & from the COLORS OF LOVE blog here -with wonderful videos of the Project





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15 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 30, 2011 at 5:23 AM

    Inspiring posting! I have been enjoying your blog so much lately due to a little stay-at-home-time - more calm opens the eyes.

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  2. ACravanDecember 30, 2011 at 5:56 AM

    Genuinely surprising and fascinating on a number of levels. Thank you and early Happy New Year. Curtis

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  3. EmilyDecember 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM

    AH-mazing!!!

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  4. KarenaDecember 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM

    Stunning work of art and so meaningful! Have you read Just Kids, Gaye?

    Wishing You and Yours all the best in 2012!

    xoxo
    Karena
    Art by Karena

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  5. Scott WatermanDecember 30, 2011 at 11:47 AM

    "I have never understood how one could make it a symbol of peace. It is an extremely cruel bird."

    -Pablo Picasso

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  6. JanisDecember 30, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    So glad to discover your beautiful blog - and it happened all by chance...

    Have a happy new year,
    and a very happy birthday Augury

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  7. P.Gaye Tapp at Little AuguryDecember 30, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    Linnea, glad you are pausing in your busy schedule.

    Curtis, the dove that was created is indeed fascinating to me. I have viewed many of the videos on the Colors of Love

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  8. P.Gaye Tapp at Little AuguryDecember 30, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    Emily, yes the project is intriguing and the irony of all its symbolism stark. pgt

    Karena, I did read the book-one of my favorites of this past year. Patti Smith offers a wealth of inspiration for me.

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  9. P.Gaye Tapp at Little AuguryDecember 30, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    Scott, I hesitate to dispute Picasso, more from the great man-I think the greatest. Picasso's lithograph, La Colombe without an olive branch, was chosen as the emblem for the World Peace Congress in Paris in April 1949.At the 1950 World Peace Congress Picasso said his father taught him to paint the dove"I stand for life against death; I stand for peace against war." At the 1952 World Peace Congress in Berlin, Picasso's Dove was depicted in a banner above the stage. Interesting his comment of about the cruelty of the dove and his Art of the DOVE juxtaposed- typical of his Greatness. pgt

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  10. P.Gaye Tapp at Little AuguryDecember 30, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    Janis, welcome and I have started following your blog, intrigued already. pgt

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  11. Philip BewleyDecember 30, 2011 at 4:37 PM

    Thought provoking, that transformation, alchemy, of the agent of death into the enrichment of the symbol of peace. I am reminded of those carpets with woven machine gun designs in Afghanistan and children wearing bullet casings as jewelry in East Africa...all so apalling, those who peddle the ingredients for those things... and it is US..and yet this is so powerful, and affirming-symbols do matter.

    The other thing is that originally I thought the dove in the last image of installation above a brazier, like a Phoenix on its pyre, another transformation, and while it may just be its plinth, I cannot erase that image from my mind, either.

    Thank you, PGT, I appreciate seeing this.

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  12. P.Gaye Tapp at Little AuguryDecember 30, 2011 at 6:44 PM

    Philip, believe it-or not-I thought the same thing especially when I started thinking about the Dove as a symbol and Picasso's words. Out of violence emerges Peace? out of the ashes? Symbols are powerful perhaps more so than the doctrines they represent, another danger in attaching the emphasis we do to them. PGT

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  13. elizabeth avedonDecember 30, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    Little Augury, I look forward to another year of your fabulous posts in 2012! All the Best into the New Year!

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  14. P.Gaye Tapp at Little AuguryDecember 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    thanks Elizabeth!and the same to you. pgt

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  15. Scott WatermanDecember 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM

    P.Gaye I knew that story of how Picasso felt about the dove but couldn't remember the exact quote. I searched and found and article in The Guardian. I tend to think the story is true... for the most part.

    Even the dove turns out to be a fudge. The poet Louis Aragon arrives in search of a poster image for the 1949 Paris Peace Conference and seizes on a painting of a dove. Picasso shrugs: "I have never understood how one could make it a symbol of peace. It is an extremely cruel bird." But by evening it is rolling on the presses.

    here's the rest:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/23/picasso-peace-freedom-tate-liverpool

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