Round - 3/13/18


Still life of some ceramic cups made by the mother of one of my housemates. I tried to draw it to look like the small cups might contain a small world.

"The rounded body of all things in one..."  
(Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Horace Gregory translation)

CHAOS AND CREATION 
Before land was and sea — before air and sky   
Arched over all, all Nature was all Chaos,  
The rounded body of all things in one,  
The living elements at war with lifelessness;   
No God, no Titan shone from sky or sea,   
No Moon, no Phoebe outgrew slanted horns   
And walked the night, nor was Earth poised in air.  
No wife of Ocean reached her glittering arms  
Into the farthest shores of reef and sand.   
Earth, Air, Water heaved and turned in darkness,  
No living creatures knew that land, that sea   
Where heat fell against cold, cold against heat —  
Roughness at war with smooth and wet with drought.   
Tilings that gave way entered unyielding masses,   
Heaviness fell into things that had no weight.    

Also, copying and pasting the different versions of Monk's 'Round Midnight' here as a bookmark.

Thelonious Monk, 'Round Midnight , San Francisco, 1960:   
*  'Round Midnight (Live At The Blackhawk) - YouTube
In Norway, 1966:   
*  Thelonious Monk Quartet - 'Round Midnight - YouTube 
The Columbia Thelonious Himself, In-Progress version,1957:
*  Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight (In Progress) - YouTube
(Other versions I've described easily available online...)
Here's Misterioso at the It Club in LA in 1964 (ask about how to find these):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3sitUeczM

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  1. Kenny MeyerMarch 13, 2018 at 7:51 AM

    Lovely! Reminds me of the painting on our wall. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sMxwr_Ca2_avwzlyVwOjTNClnfbL9tnW/view?usp=sharing

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