{"product_id":"my-work-resembles-me","title":"My Work Resembles Me","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b9b6b6;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePigment Dyed Brown Hat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100% Cotton Twill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff5600;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003e\"What is a poet? By \"poet\" I mean painter, musician, sculptor, architect, what have you.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/cocteau-jack-of-all-trades.webp?v=1745985145\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poet is, in a way, the laborer for a Self more profound than themselves. A Self they know very imperfectly, a mysterious force that inhabits him and that he knows not at all. I venture to say that the poet is a kind of schizophrenic who lives in all of us, and of whom almost all grownups are ashamed. Of whom a large part of humanity is ashamed.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.51.11_PM.jpg?v=1745985091\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"I have had fabricated for me a character that is not me, a legendary personage who does not resemble me at all but who protects me in a way, since I should never want to shake this character's hand.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This inner character who inhabits me is a completely timeless character whom, I repeat, I know very, very little about.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I am only an intermediary. A medium. A laborer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_inline_ozsju5qfQk1qio4j1_1280.jpg?v=1745985426\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In short, the poet tries to put his night world out on the table; he serves sometimes awkwardly-this Self, and this Self is sometimes ill-tempered over being ill-served. Thus it is that the self which is trying to speak to you now out of my mouth may not be my Self at all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.57.14_PM.jpg?v=1745985459\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I should not wish you to remember me, or rather this \"I\" who is speaking to you, but the I who dwells in the shadows, in my shadows, and that has been expressed with great lack of control, for I say to you again, control is very dangerous. Faults are the true expression of the individual.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This much is true: my work resembles me more than the image you see before you at this moment, on a screen or in a photo.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-29_at_11.32.56_PM.jpg?v=1745983992\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrphee (1950):\u003cbr\u003eWhat does marble think when it's being sculpted? It thinks, \"I am struck, insulted, ruined, lost.\" Life is sculpting me. Let it finish its work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-14_at_1.42.39_PM.jpg?v=1745983889\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDick Higgins (who popularized Intermedia in the 60s):\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/tumblr_429996c24b0c90fc62c00cae440f4201_640c8bab_2048.jpg?v=1745984010\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColeridge (who coined \"Intermedia\" in 1812):\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn every work of art there is a reconcilement of the external with the internal\u003c\/strong\u003e; the conscious is so impressed on the unconscious as to appear in it; as compared mere letters inscribed on a tomb with figures themselves constituting the tomb. He who combines the two is the person of genius; and for that reason they must partake of both. Hence there is in genius itself an unconscious activity; nay, that is the genius in the person of genius. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_10.35.51_AM.jpg?v=1746023794\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56019151192232,"sku":"wzu1789814824795","price":24.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/my-work-resembles-me_1.gif?v=1789814831","url":"https:\/\/silkdrapefit.shop\/products\/my-work-resembles-me","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}