Color Writing

written and painted music

Gabrielle von Bernstorff-Nahat

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9783732279463
• eBook ISBN: 9783749417414
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Poesía

For years I have wanted to write like William Turner paints, like Chopin, John Coltrane and Miles Davis compose and make music. There is something about bringing the completeness of the feeling, the sky, the space, the surround. It is an above and beyond overboarding im-precision or perhaps it is hitting the notes and tones just so, a kind of free style playing of compositions not necessarily seen or spoken but felt, intuited, - defintely spatial.Color Writing is this attempt are these essays then, accompanied by paintings.Gabrielle von Bernstorff-Nahat

The Power of Poetry

Traditional philosophy has exhausted the

power to renew language because it wants

to stay alone in defining the life of the

mind. Poetry is the movement away from

the Cartesian “ I think therefore I am” to “

I am dream”, “I am language”, “I am

poetry” and “I am imagination”. The

systematization of knowledge runs the risk

of becoming a dictatorship of the mind. It

is in danger of being reductive. A method

is both necessary and dangerous. As a way

of approaching things, of initiating a

discourse, it must be guided by principles,

but these principles have a tendency to

become frozen, into a system divorced

from its formation, thereby paralyzing

discovery. (Bachelard)

Poetry works against a systematization of

knowledge. Poetry is reason beyond

reason. Where philosophy gives room to

desperation, poetry takes over thought.

Poetry is the place of material

imagination. “Matter is dreamed not

perceived.” (Bachelard) Making is

relational and is closer to art than aesthetic

principles. Making in the realm of the

imagination works against a totalizing

method, it is a dispersed philosophy, a

poly-philosophy of poly-joints and

multiple connections. Bachelard speaks of

the “penseur-charnière” and of a “rupture

epistemologique.”

“Poetry is made of words”, (Mallarmé),

just as architecture is made of light and

dark, of materials, space, rhythm and so

on. Modern poetry begins when space

enters the time of poetry. Mallarmé is the

explosion of space into poetry. It is space

which allows the psyche to unfold in a free

manner. I...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Color Writing
• The Power of Poetry
• Black Milk
• Blue over You
• Inside the Green Grape
• Memory
• Superimpositions
• On seeing red
• Horizons
• Turner's Sky
• Dark Nights
• Copyright