Of course, for the Surrealists it was easy to forget a woman since they were all macho, macho men… So, here is what I have found out about Kay Sage, one that was never taught to me at uni either…
Kay Sage, Albany, New York, (1898–1963), North American Surrealist painter and poet. She is known for her haunting, architectural dreamscapes. Sage studied art in Rome in the 1920s, later moving to Paris where she became associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1940, she married fellow Surrealist Yves Tanguy, and the couple relocated to the United States during World War II.
Sage’s mature works are characterized by vast, desolate landscapes filled with scaffold-like structures, draped forms, and monumental architectural elements that convey themes of isolation, waiting, and melancholy. Unlike the biomorphic imagery of many Surrealists, her style leaned toward the geometric and architectural.
After Tanguy’s sudden death in 1955, Sage’s work became even darker, marked by a profound sense of grief and emptiness. Struggling with depression and declining eyesight, she took her own life in 1963.
Since, of course, she was usually overshadowed by her male contemporaries, she is now recognized as one of the most important women of Surrealism.
Lou Reed… Transformer… 1972, the decade of the maturity and the greatness of rock music. Music like we have never heard after. Well, I like the 80’s too and the 90’s up to the day that Duran Duran released «Ordinary World«, the last great song by a rock/pop group… So Lou Reed died in 2013… He was born in one of my fave cities of the US, Brooklyn in 1942. He was the leader of the Velvet Underground… So what… He was like the original Hot Rat dude, a monster like some called him. But this song kicks bloody arse… «Take a Walk on the Wild Side«. How many dare?
Of course, for the Surrealists it was easy to forget a woman since they were all macho, macho men… So, here is what I have found out about Kay Sage, one that was never taught to me at uni either…
Kay Sage, Albany, New York, (1898–1963), North American Surrealist painter and poet. She is known for her haunting, architectural dreamscapes. Sage studied art in Rome in the 1920s, later moving to Paris where she became associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1940, she married fellow Surrealist Yves Tanguy, and the couple relocated to the United States during World War II.
Sage’s mature works are characterized by vast, desolate landscapes filled with scaffold-like structures, draped forms, and monumental architectural elements that convey themes of isolation, waiting, and melancholy. Unlike the biomorphic imagery of many Surrealists, her style leaned toward the geometric and architectural.
After Tanguy’s sudden death in 1955, Sage’s work became even darker, marked by a profound sense of grief and emptiness. Struggling with depression and declining eyesight, she took her own life in 1963.
Since, of course, she was usually overshadowed by her male contemporaries, she is now recognized as one of the most important women of Surrealism.
(«Magical Mystical World»/Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
SO WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT, DEAR DIARY, THAT I HAVE BEEN HEARING? CAN IT BE TRUE…
Well, I have been hearing a lot about the so-called simulation hypothesis—the idea that our reality might be an advanced computer simulation—has been taken seriously by many important people like philosophers, e.g. Nick Bostrom* and even technologists like Elon Musk.
Well, they say that if a civilization lasts long enough and develops advanced computer power, they will be able to simulate entire universes. Hmm… And that they will do many simulations, so many that at one point they would totally outnumber the «base reality.»
But… where’s the bloody proof? I mean, dear diary, I love to imagine these things and philosophise about them, but are they truly real? Physics does have some weird hints like quantization at Planck scales, limits to information, the strangeness of quantum mechanics), but nothing conclusive and certainly nothing that a non-geek can understand.
Then there is also so much talk (even in good films) about the multiverse. Dear fecking diary, is that real? I mean it is just as phenomenal as the simulation hypothesis, but completely different and I think I can subscribe to something like this. And the multiverse has been «proven» by physicists and cosmologists. I mean the quantum multiverse where it is known and proven that particles can exist in multiple states and in multiple places simultaneously. Why cannot we?
And dear diary, you know that I do not believe in limitations and I do not believe that we have to prove something in a laboratory. It is great if we can, but I don’t believe we (I) need that to believe that something is real or not. So even thought the multiverse is something not empirically verified, I think it is real.
Dear diary, another popular topic that interests me a lot is the Mandela Effect, but I think I will leave that for another day…
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