Friday Art Find: Death by Moebius
Creativity/pleasure = receptivity/sensuality
+ action/intention
= access to the realm of spirit, magick, and possibilities
To the realm of memory, true memory, true connection beyond the gaps and absences of the simulation.
From an ArtFutura interview with Moebius:
How do you get in touch with that universe?
Oh, it’s very easy! You just sit down at a table with a pencil and paper and let pleasure get to work.
It can also be difficult because things sometimes come to you as if they were covered in mist, in haze. They’re shrouded by resistance to creation, the absence of memory.
When you’re drawing, making a cartoon, it’s really the memory that’s at work.
In fact, the drawing comes from the traces left by emotion. Of course, there are all kinds of emotions: harsh emotions, pleasant emotions, light, balanced emotions.
Sometimes, beautiful drawings appear because you have drawn from mysterious, disturbing sources. It happens to me when I’m drawing, I ask myself if I’m not going crazy.
You really have the feeling that you are losing your mind when you start drawing things which don’t have a recognisable point of reference. You find that you are out of touch with yourself. You see yourself doing something you don’t understand, as if you were suddenly speaking a foreign language.
It’s frightening and very exciting at the same time, because with time you discover a kind of confidence. You know you won’t die in this unknown world. There is no more fear. You think you’re in danger but in fact you’re not so you have to go on. You absolutely must have confidence: I’m on my way! Beside, the feeling of fear won’t diminish with time: it will always be just as intense.
Oh, it’s very easy! You just sit down at a table with a pencil and paper and let pleasure get to work.
It can also be difficult because things sometimes come to you as if they were covered in mist, in haze. They’re shrouded by resistance to creation, the absence of memory.
When you’re drawing, making a cartoon, it’s really the memory that’s at work.
In fact, the drawing comes from the traces left by emotion. Of course, there are all kinds of emotions: harsh emotions, pleasant emotions, light, balanced emotions.
Sometimes, beautiful drawings appear because you have drawn from mysterious, disturbing sources. It happens to me when I’m drawing, I ask myself if I’m not going crazy.
You really have the feeling that you are losing your mind when you start drawing things which don’t have a recognisable point of reference. You find that you are out of touch with yourself. You see yourself doing something you don’t understand, as if you were suddenly speaking a foreign language.
It’s frightening and very exciting at the same time, because with time you discover a kind of confidence. You know you won’t die in this unknown world. There is no more fear. You think you’re in danger but in fact you’re not so you have to go on. You absolutely must have confidence: I’m on my way! Beside, the feeling of fear won’t diminish with time: it will always be just as intense.
O Death, your visage is dear to us.
You rock us to sleep, and wake us in the morning.
Death, life, love, pleasure, rebirth, creation.
We honor you, Goddesses and Gods of Death.
- Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2023. Absent Memory and Transitional Justice. CSIS. Retrieved from: https://www.csis.org/programs/human-rights-initiative/legacy-works/absent-memory-and-transitional-justice.
- Rothman, Lilly. 2015 Aug 18. Read TIME's Original Review of Lolita. [Cover image of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov]. TIME. Retrieved from: https://time.com/3961443/review-lolita-1958/.