All posts by Gael GERARD

the marriage of the artist and the work of art

   Pieces of art are electric shocks that force us to perceive the absolute. They us question our falling asleep by forcing us to question .

The seen summons the artist to wonder at what he sees and pressing. Matter reveals its secrets and contact occurs between the patient soul, observer and acting of the artist and the material which is tamed by letting itself be shaped . The artist penetrates the visible, the sensitive, the real. He makes them his own the life he gives them without turning them into objects. He does not remain a prisoner appearances, resistances and habits of mental thought. He preserves the ability to marvel at reality by constantly perceiving the rift separating the natural and authentic world from objectified matter . And behind the appearance of creation he perceives the mystery of order hidden. He raises the science of the art to the level of the qualities of the pure spirit. the fireworks of his inspiration create the poetic moment, innocent contemplation beyond known certainties as well as commitment on the path of wonder .

The admirer, the disciple, par contagion intuitive, captures the interaction between human and the environment, between humans and the universe .

The artist by a double observation of his interiority and the environment brings out the eternally renewed poetic form. There is unforeseen dialogue, improbable, between the creator, animal-human man of flesh and mixed sensations and the matter. The artist becomes, the time of a dive into the light of otherness of the world, the servant of what prolongs it, of what overwhelms him just as much than what glorifies him. He turns out to be the universal memory, union unthinkable of the absolute and its manifestation. A crystallization of the event brings the bursting of a buried truth, visible at this moment where the dawn of what is happening is at the heart of its mystery, like a date hidden that underlies the appearance of creation. Continuing his quest, the curiosity and sensitivity of the artist guide him towards the perception and the intuition of the invisible structure of things .

And the material opens like a rose in summer before the active soul, patient and contemplative of the artist. Matter is tamed, she makes herself welcoming and lets herself shape. The animal-human man, in a new intimacy of himself fades away to make way for”Human”, to a universal dimension where beauty expresses itself and exists. The artist is then a. He is an instrument of new energy and fully himself. It reveals human nature . The artist through his gesture of creation lives. It receives and is lived. He is movement of movement before being a thing or someone. He likes. He is intensely diversity, duality and multiplicity. He is grain of dust attentive to the incessant upheavals of the universal order. He is the groom of the many weddings waiting for him at the end of the hall shadow and light of its obligatory journey .

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Quelque chose d’avant le temps

 So much and so much effort
commensurate with requests
to keep your head above water
and be in resemblance to the visible
without being closed to the invisible .

So much and so much effort
to raise viridity
on the shield of our intentions
while without effective power
l'amour sensible fait figure de désaffection .

So much and so much effort
to move in this corridor
to distinguish good from evil
in order to really see where we are going .

So much and so much effort
to cross
the fords of the torrent of illusion
without distinguishing the origin of this stardust
where to be liege men and women .

So much and so much effort
to avail oneself of an eternal sun
while the confines of our understanding
sont scarifiés sur les autels
dumbness and deafness .

So much and so much effort
spent waiting for the rain to stop falling
alors qu'elle est partie prenante de la fructification .

So much and so much effort
to consider the end of the end of our life course
as happiness
alors que nous sommes éternellement en marche .

So much and so much effort
to accept that the sun goes down
avant que les blés ne mûrissent
implorant
in search of harvest
le retour de la faux du père .


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to join oneself

Il faut jeter par dessus bord
beaucoup de paresse, mais surtout beaucoup d’inhibition et d’incertitude pour
to join oneself .

Pour toucher les autres à travers moi, I have to see more clearly and I have to accept myself.

Depuis des années j’emmagasine,
I accumulate in a large reservoir, mais tout cela devrait bien
ressortir un jour, otherwise I will have the feeling of having lived for nothing, d’avoir
dépouillé l’humanité sans rien lui donner en retour .

Tous les problèmes
que je traverse et que je tente d’expliquer, me tourmente et appelle en moi
solution et formulation. 'Cause these problems aren't just mine,
but those of many others. Si à la fin de ma vie je trouve une forme à ce
qui est encore chaotique en moi, I may have fulfilled my little mission.

Tout cela me semble bien prétentieux.
Je me sens parfois comme une poubelle tant il y a de trouble,
of vanity, of incompleteness, insufficiency in me.

Mais corrélativement
il y a aussi une authentique sincérité et une volonté passionnée, presque
nécessaire, to bring some clarity, de trouver l’harmonie entre le dedans et le dehors pour se rejoindre soi-même .

A la longue il se pourrait que je trouve la paix et la clarté.
But yes ! It is now, en ce lieu, in this world,
I need to find clarity, peace and balance.

Je dois me replonger sans cesse dans la réalité, m’expliquer avec tout ce que je
rencontre sur mon chemin, accueillir le monde extérieur dans mon monde
intérieur et l’y nourriret inversement je dois continuer d’écouter au-dedans
de moi – , mais cela est terriblement difficile et c’est pourquoi j’ai ce
sentiment d’oppression au-dedans de moi .

C’est alors que je fermais les yeux. stop thinking.
I was going through a moment of peace, calm.
My unwavering faith in man can't make me slip away. A
perspective de cohérence m’appelle. J’ai si tendrement à faire que je ne puis
qu’assumer pleinement mon destin et employer mes talents à soulager les maux de mes frères et sœurs .

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beyond the border and evil

The border between good and evil passes between the two banks of the river. Any choice of one bank rather than the other ricochets and carries with it its punishment and its seed.. Punishment keeps in hell ; and the germ, this force capable of splitting the rock, crack the heart. So we spend our lives dithering on a catwalk .

It is the passage from one bank to the other that remains pure mystery. We might think that on each side there is an abyss by which takes place the passage to another dimension. And maybe the attempt to escape by all means this aspiration, to this vertiginous fall is it the origin of our worst suffering .

The relentless refusal of the known to the unknown, the familiar to the unexplored, forces fate to use violence against us .

For the fetus in its mother's womb, the end of the world is called birth. We call butterfly the annihilation of the caterpillar. All life is a cosmic drama that never ends, all in all, not so bad .

Pass the bridge, it is to change nature. To see otherwise, is to change your vision, it is to crack his agreed vision of things. How painful it is to change state. It makes us blink eyes, before later seeing these states stabilize .

Changing sides blurs the view than the others carry me. Also for fear of being taken for insane, I'm careful not to talk about it anyone. But the truth is the opposite, so I went out of the world that my time hallucinates to reach a reality without time and place. And this reality is light casting, fluorescent magma that all the shades from darkest to brightest. And this palette is a piano of colors .

And I saw it as I see now from the window burst a summer at the zenith of her majesty. I saw that matter was not that light and vibration and Love, pure love, immeasurable love .

And I see all these human beings going somewhere leaves when they never left from nowhere and will not arrive in nowhere place where they are not already. This immense sacred and absurd staging suggests that men are gods when, between two dreams, they let their gaze wander over the world .

The lesson of this metaphor of the bridge between two shores is that life has been given to us, that we must put as much energy as possible into bringing this potential to fruition, as little energy as possible to suffer from it and not be surprised when what seems to be eternal flashes and disappears .

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WHAT NIGHT THIS NIGHT

 Wordless defeat
under the flight of a specter
emptying itself of its attributes .

One night exile
devoured by the web of dreams
without the secret corrupting the memory .

Oblivion between the mist and the moon
you won't die you can't die
all day glories extinguished
from the bowels of the valley
from which rises the double sound of oboe and sax .

Prolonged bewitchment
at the limits of a crossing
before sinking into darkness
where slowly are consumed
flesh and nails of tenderness's Sunday best
fallen in dew of blood
before dawn strays .

Pitfall arranged between the lanterns
in the middle of these wrecks
than a mysterious order
land in this kingdom
where cold flint separates flesh from skin .

Life is here
life is the place
mine life in companion of your life
size XXL of the plotted median
between the blue child's smile
and the perpetuity of a blond desert .


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the poet and humanity

 In Doubt and Hope .
If there is a link between the artist and the rest of humanity
it can't be that nothing living can be created
without the obscure consciousness of this link there
bond of love and revolt .

The sequel can only come after the end of the film
a suite filtered by the cheerfulness of the light of the world
a suite to climb the stairs four by four
in friendship the thickening air
as time mingles with time
as this day passed that will not return
as the sharp horns of a gripping cold the edge of the forests .

They will come or they won't come
then they will leave
their lives focused on their daily occupations .

To stretch the neck
towards the proximity of a finitude all to oneself
rises the aroma of the sacrifices made to the gods
close to a human attitude that is worth - the laugh .

rushes in
through the door of disappointments
concentration camps murders and rapes
the ineffable ordeal in which must be settled
the question of the meaning of his life
heart pounding
in front of the red book of counterfeits
where to sneak away
where to spit his clots of dark words
on the marble body of the father gone from the first line
where the effort to engage
would qualify as primary attention
the divine breath to promote .

Gets up
above the tenderness of dawn
with the accents of singing blackbirds
the caduceus of intelligence and culture
rhythmic union with sweet scents of jasmine
outside the bituminous solitude
off the black ink verbatim
outside the pictorial palace of the granting judges
outside the warping of the pranks of stupidity
except this strange birth between dog and wolf
where to read true
is the final moment of decision
to gather in his soul
the prospect of a new impetus
so that the energy adheres to the spirit
springboard
where to bounce even higher
in simple life .


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Se donner un nom, a face

 You so transparent
fricassée de grillons dans la prairie
At nightfall
look open to the awakening of a starry sky
out of reach
at the source of the whispers .

You came from the depths of the earth
of a thousand petals made up
in front of the hectic arrival of the starlings
to repeat
que la marée monte
the calls go away
smothered in the hold
hoping for the last drop of rain
on the wing of night
of foliage adorned
on the walls of nostalgia
to watch for the furtive passage
between the feminine and the masculine
and be reborn within you .


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Send me a postcard

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 With blue everywhere without blue in the soul
with breathless wind but without really losing it
with a tenderness of the air without a carnivorous fly
with a tropical tree that does not sting
with the sea but not too cold and without sharks
with boats you could ride on
with fuss vendors that look good and don't spit sand on your tan
with children who don't shout
with a sun that is not too hot
with a fries stand not too far away
with a polard to read that is not too creepy
with a sufficiently large bath towel
with sunglasses without fingerprints
with a parasol that doesn't fly away all the time
with a smart phone with a not too aggressive ringtone
with uncounted hours ahead of you
with a sweet feeling of hunger reminiscent of the evening barbecue
with the sound of the wavelets caressing the shore without unsightly scraping
with a sky where planes wouldn't drag their illegible ads
with a not too big belly that allows me to see the toes
with a tanning cream that does not pull the hairs while drying
with just the right amount of sweat showing that the fat melts away but without dripping
with a calm relaxation with each breath hoping it won't be the last
with a plunge into a half-sleep accompanied by butterflies flying in azure skies
with the ability to grab a handful of sand without encountering a butt
with the project of doing nothing despite this mind that gnaws at us
with a pinch of infinity without thinking of what is to come .


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god is metaphor

 God is a metaphor for all that transcends the planes intellectual thought.

Thought intellectual is a flower that does not abolish God.

God sometimes in its thurifers may seem the root plant of all things.

That thought intellectual who backwards initiates the inquisitive trace of the divine overflow is the ramp to the truth.

His pistil of love on the brink of congestion throws the arrow of knowledge out of the permissiveness of sin.

half wisdom buried in the premises of beauty is the antechamber of the great upheaval.

To ask the foraging insect could discover the pot of roses of freedom.

The fragrance crackling with a thousand sparks of love on the edge of the tongue of fire marks the coming from the one who says.

Poetry in its quest for wonder is the metaphor of the Mystery.

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The damsel of the seas

 The raw blue sea of ​​the origins
I threw myself
I left the raft of conveniences
and held my lady to my lap
the water was tender and conducive to the advancement of the situation
offshore slack with no land on the horizon
immense with fine regular and shivering undulations
where transparent
I could make out pebbles from the bottom
I swam aimlessly aimlessly
infinite time .

Appeared ribs
I approached
the landscape was barren
everything was white with ashes after the cataclysm
shredded trees
no leaves no greenery
I walked along the coast
a creek I docked
a house on the edge of a pile of fossilized plants
remnant of a forest of yesteryear
gigantic cemetery raising its stumps towards a brazen sky
a house with scaffolding all around
human beings must have taken possession of the place after the terrible ordeal
I was dropping off gente damsel
and followed her home
a two-storey stone building
outside the door as we were about to knock
opened like a gust of wind
a breath that sucked us in
a spring surrounded us
a little woman dressed all in black
with a soft cloth, the head covered
bare feet in thick leather sandals
bespectacled and wrinkled face appeared
to drag us briskly into a dark interior
the two women seemed to know each other
I was only entitled to a furtive glance
As if I did not exist
but was I really visible ?
through this crossing that I carried out without effort
driven by a task
was i not a spirit ?
committed there before me simple witness
a lively conversation
full of joy of variations in the voice
two bouquets of multicolored flowers chirping cheerful birds intertwined
in the play of hands and luminous eyes
a graceful song made of joy
whose language I did not understand
I was not one of them
I was the ferryman who allowed them to meet
so i disappeared
strength of the work carried out .

Since then
the murmur is no longer the simple melodious accord of the elements of life encountered
he is thick bower in life returned and children laugh
on the ascent of the stony path
that runs along the now familiar house .


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