WINTER SALE: THE 23 STAB WOUNDS OF JULIUS CAESAR
Our Winter Sale continues with discounts on over 30 titles, including Ian Johnstone's The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar, a full colour monograph with texts by Geoff Cox and Serena Korda, and a 40 minute cassette of music composed by Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur) for only £20!
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A series of 23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London’s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming .
They appear on blocks of unguessable purpose : pin-veined rough-cut blocks of
whitewood. Displayed in the clutch of the screw’s harsh thrift. The cloth
is pulled away.The 23 wounds.
Sphagia.
Extispicy.Blood spidered and baked on fissured rocks. Lassos and bones and a
tracework of bones. Flesh bared and pared and spindled open through a million
pin pricks. Tiny and vertiginous, their lines cluster and tear themselves into
liquid fold and tiny blots. The eye swoops like a raptor, bedazzled. Swims
unfocused by infinitesimal mysteries. Tricked, beguiled, left rotting.Impossible
amulets23 broken hawk beaks
23 rotted talons with their fringe of ant trail
23 fragments of a skull
23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger wolf
23 bell shards tolled for the ghost of a headless ram
23 mourning scarves of ink-clotted lace
23 eggshells sticky with seed
Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing’ storm
and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens.
Takes shape.