Sam Gilliam 1933-2022

Purple Antelope Space Squeeze, 1987

 

Happy Memorial Day!

Peter Lamborn Wilson 1945-2022

 

"For Blake, Satan is only accidentally the cause of evil, since evil has no being in itself, except as the absence of good.  For the soul freed from illusion, the devil resumes his original archangelic glory, his solar and vital power." 

     (PLW)

Vangelis 1943-2022

I don't listen to his soundtracks or, as it happens, watch those movies, but I wore out a vinyl copy of this...  Apparently a jam session that was released amid his objections..

Shireen Abu Aklah 1971-2022

وهي ازكى منقوشة زعتر من البلد القديمة في #القدس وعند #باب_العامود، ويسعد صباحكم pic.twitter.com/9bztZOMa9V

— Shireen AbuAqla شيرين ابو عاقلة (@ShireenNasri) June 15, 2021

Klaus Schulze 1947-2022

Dennis González 1954-2022

"Catechism was .. inspired by the church hymns that I play that have contributed to my spiritual growth." (DG)

Richard Howard 1929-2022

 

 

How often, grim Caricature, must I

jingle my bells and kiss your bestial brow?

Until my aim is true - the circle squared -

how many arrows forfeit to the Void?

We rack our brains with subtle stratagems

and ruin many massive armatures

before the splendid Creature may be seen

for whom our fatal longing makes us sob?

To some their idol will not be revealed,

and those doomed sculptors, branded with disgrace,

upbraid themselves and lacerate their breasts,

nursing one hope, sepulchral Capitol! -

that Death as it fills the sky like another sun

will make the flowers of their devising bloom!

(Charles Baudelaire, La Mort des artistes, tr. Richard Howard)