What the heart knows ...

"What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow,"
wrote Irish storyteller James Stephens.... it will be lucky if you're smart enough to trust your heart, which has already figured out a certain truth that your head is still days away from registering. This is not merely a pretty metaphor, by the way. Despite what you may have been led to believe about the nature of the heart, it is actually an organ of intelligence that is capable of deep thought.

(from Rob Brezhnev's Free Will Astrology)

Joseph Cornell. Master of Dreams.Part 2.

Cornell could create poetry from the commonplace. This box is called 'Toward the Blue Peninsula'. Isn't it breathtaking...?



In 1940s Cornell created the Medici series, the most 'haunting' of all his works.

This box is called 'Medici Slot Machine'.



This is 'Medici Princess'.



This is 'Medici Boy'.

Joseph Cornell. Master of Dreams.Part 1.

I've been fascinated by Joseph Cornell's boxes for quite time, but never had a chance to read a good book on his life. The book I borrowed from the public library turned out to be an exceptional one: I will, definitely read it again some time....

Cornell, Joseph (1903-72), an American sculptor, one of the pioneers of assemblage, had no formal training in art . They say in his 'boxes' he combined 'the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism'.

The Surrealists believed that the function of the poet or artist was to communicate the primary concept, not by describing it but selecting the appropriate word or image as symbol, which would act as stimulus or irritant to the senses of the spectator. This in turn would arouse multiple images and emotions to the senses of the spectator... like this one.

...or this one