“A sourcerer must source
the way across unknown
territory and among un-
familiar elements”
monoprint using flat stones plus small etching,
Drager Meurtant, 2022-2024
A Sourcerer on the Way
30 Monday Dec 2024
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Alternate wish 2024-2025
21 Saturday Dec 2024
Posted in art, Dada, mental health, poetry, street-photography
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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie, society
Hey, you:
Is it true you read, this, and the next
words and written thoughts, wrought
by sleeplessness, insomnia and sorrow.
Since this rotten world is consumed by
maggots, some with guns, the others
driven by envy, none silenced by having
to sit behind a Triumph, a Remington,
(mine is an Erika from the GDR) but
shouting on X, like crazy birds.
Who has control over the red button,
that will stop nonsense and sense alike,
in one sudden instance.
Aye, the worst dreams came true
arriving both from the east and west,
their messages driving holes like tubes
drawn by bullets in grey matter: cheese
it has become, infected by the craziness
of bulls – they must be bulls – that
disguised themselves as double burgers with
mayonnaise.
Now my cramped fingers find the words
silence and peace and know these must
differ from sleep without dreams.
Drager Meurtant, Dec 25, 2023 – Dec 12, 2024
Transition // Overgang
03 Sunday Nov 2024
Posted in photography, poetry, street-photography
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It was a day like many others
When my camera invited me
For a walk across the city…
Het was een dag als vele andere
dat mijn camera me riep voor
een wandeling door de stad.
And in particular, for
the transition of a canal connecting
Amsterdam with the river Rhine.
En in het bijzonder, voor
de overgang over een kanaal
dat Amsterdam verbind met de Rijn.
A bridge is physical, bold and curved
And with bolts as supporting elements
Een brug is fysiek, met durf en curve
En met bouten als ondersteunende elementen.
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Once a number becomes in sight
The goal is reached.
Als er een nummer in zicht komt
Is het doel bereikt.
text and photos (c) Drager Meurtant, Nov 3rd 2024
Nothing // Niets
25 Friday Oct 2024
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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, graphics, kunst, philosophy, poetry, poezie
I don’t believe in anything anymore.
it wasn’t a fall / not a gradual disappearance /
but a sudden realization.
there was not a thing / at checking the map “belief”
that’s how simple it can be:
no memory either / and the back-up / was also empty.
this won’t work, I concluded / and decided to go cycling
niets geloof ik meer.
het was geen val, geen / geleidelijke verdwijning /
maar een plotse vaststelling.
er bleek niets te zijn / bij het raadplegen /
van de map “geloof”.
zo simpel kan het zijn: / geen herinnering ook /
en de back-up was / eveneens leeg.
dan maar niet, dacht ik / en besloot een eindje
te gaan fietsen.
Drager Meurtant, 9-9-24
(monoprint, two elements, size image 12×20 cm
(DM, Sept 9, 2024)
VERS VAN DE PERS!
02 Monday Sep 2024
Posted in exhibition, Uncategorized
Expositie grafische kunstvormen door Academiegroep KunstenHuis Idea Zeist
Kom kennismaken met de veelzijdigheid van de grafische kunst, een beeldende kunstvorm waarbij gebruik gemaakt wordt van verschillende druktechnieken zoals etsen, houtsnede, monoprint, lithografie en meer. De artistieke mogelijkheden van dit medium zijn eindeloos: van abstract tot figuratief, in zwart-wit of juist met veel kleur en van briefkaart- tot posterformaat. Zo heeft deze kunstzinnige verbeelding een kenmerkende uitstraling die eigen is aan het drukproces.
Vanouds worden grafische kunstvormen benut om de kunst toegankelijker te maken voor een breed publiek, van jong tot oud. De mogelijkheid om één beeld in grotere oplage te vervaardigen drukt de prijs.
Gedurende de openingstijden is steeds een aantal kunstenaars aanwezig om vragen te beantwoorden en uitleg te geven over procedés en de gebruikte technieken.
Deelnemers: Petra Staal, Drager Meurtant, Martien Op den Velde, Angelique van Vondelen, Marianne den Hollander, Jacomijn van Kempen, Jeanine Keuchenius en Jadwiga Everts
Locatie: Kunstruimte De Melkfabriek, Guldenvliesstraat 4H, 5211 AM, ’s Hertogenbosch
Openingstijden: vrijdag 4 t/m zondag 6 oktober & vrijdag 11 t/m zondag 13 oktober van 13 – 17 uur
Vernissage: zaterdag 5 oktober 15 – 17 uur
Inhabited
11 Sunday Aug 2024
Posted in Decay, defense, philosophy, poetry, street photography
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abandonned, fotografie, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie, window
When locks fail / there is no need for keys.
Doors open freely / when people knock.
At night darkness closes / the access, safe, without sound.
Outside and inside are separated / by will, not by force.
Veiled
Your utter absence / was revealed by the texture
of these sheers used as veils / for protection against
unwanted looks.
text and photo (c) Drager Meurtant, 2024
Two sources one stream
05 Monday Aug 2024
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Hello, this is your virtual road assistance guide: when taking turns and determining your goal, you may ask: “is it possible that two sources form one stream?“
Catherin Pascal Dunk and Drager Meurtant attempted to create two poems by sequential and mutual interactive exchange of lines / stanzas, and composing a joint stream of words or lyric.
you may find the results here:
On the Road to Paris
31 Wednesday Jul 2024
Posted in France, Le Pays, photography, poetry, street photography, Uncategorized
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Europe, fotografie, France, on the road, paris, photography, poetry, poezie, travel
The idea was to make a short trip to Paris by bus at the end of November 2023. Calculated time of departure 9.30 hours, which became 9.50 hours.
On this road hoping for good or better / while seated on the front row in a bus / heading for La Ville Lumière (the City of Light) / rain came pouring, slashing the windows / and changing the experience into murk and flashing screen scenes / of viaducts crossing the motor road.
The driver from Eastern Europe / talking to another driver crossing / the content in a different direction / in their own language / endlessly.
Still, the driver paid attention to the traffic on the road, the lights / and he drove peacefully to the terminus / at Gare de Bercy.
Second chance
13 Saturday Jul 2024
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Is there a second chance?
Will there be room for improvement, or have all options be exploited to great depth, leaving just a void.
Let us look at mixed-media painting “Room with a view”, conceived and created in 2019.
In subsequent years, doubt gradually did arise, and early July 2024 this work was completely painted over with white gesso, and then created anew. The structure (cut-out in carton) remained, but colored differently. Minor elements were added as collage material.
The text made vague by superposition of thin paper, came from book by Florence Montgomery – Misunderstood (1910)
text and art by Drager Meurtant, 2024
The Trek (Modern Times)
27 Thursday Jun 2024
Posted in abstract, art, assemblage, development, installation, kunst, landscape, mental health, philosophy, poezie, society
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assemblage, Dada, gedicht, landscape, philosophy, poetry, poezie, sculpture, society, strain
Is there more pressure, a heavier load / a road more insidious?
Is the texture of existence ruder / and less predictable and / is nature no longer trustworthy / not even in ourselves?
Yes, with the objective to serve / ourselves most / we become more otherless.
Sculpture, assemblage of wooden laths, coated with A-1 cast and paint plus piece of soap in cloth coated with A1 cast; 59x45x33 cm.
(c) Drager Meurtant, June 2024
