NEW YORK!

Collage 663

Lola Baltzell
from page 581-582, volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 10/21/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1075-1076

Collage 662

Prince Andrei has died, and Princess Marya and Natasha are grieving. We are at the beginning of Volume IV, Part Four, Chapter I. I often use religious imagery, but it seems particularly relevant here.

"When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him; that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes -- is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears of any external, irritating touch." -- Lola

Lola Baltzell
from page 579-580, volume 2 of original text
collage
made 10/21/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1073-1075

Collage 661

I believe the red here is a nod to an earlier contribution (collage #532, by Howard McCalebb from Berlin) which had been posted not too long before this was made. It's wild to be influenced in the studio by someone I haven't even met! When I weary of the project (another 5x7 collage based on WP!), I am often struck again by how unique and interesting it is.

Adrienne Wetmore
from page 577-578, volume 2 of original text
collage
made 10/21/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1071-1072

Collage 660

About suffering they were never wrong,

The Old Masters; how well, they understood

Its human position; how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along...

-W. H. Auden from "Musee des Beaux Arts"

Lynn Waskelis
from page 575-576, volume 2 of original text
collage
made 10/21/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation 1070-1071

Collage 659

"The actions of the Russian and French armies during the reverse campaign from Moscow to the Nieman resemble a game of blindman's buff, when two players are blindfolded and one occasionally rings a little bell to let the catcher know where he is. At first the one to be caught rings without fearing the enemy, but, when things go badly for him, he runs away from his enemy, trying to move inaudibly, and often, thinking to escape, goes straight into his arms." -pp. 1068 in P/V

Emma Rhodes
from page 573-574, volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 10/20/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1068-1070

Collage 658

Otto Mayr
from page 571-572, volume 2 of original text
collage, acrylic paint
made 12/1-3/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 1066-1068