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What I tell you is not true

19 Tuesday Aug 2025

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With madness ruling our world thanks to mixture of finance, big-tech, politics and social media, there must be written more poetry, and there must be created more art.

Incomprehensible (Animal) Rythm

Dogs dance and fight and bite / cats or humans and the occasional sheep /

(not their bosses).

And teeth shine / a glance that guards distance.

incomprehensible (animal) rythm // onbegrijpelijk (animaal) ritme

Honden dansen en vechten en bijten / katten of mensen en bij gelegenheid / een schaap /

(niet hun baasjes).

En tanden schijnen / een glans die afstand bewaart.

text and collage-mixed media, DM 2024 – 2025 (www.meurtant.exto.org)

Systems of power

01 Tuesday Apr 2025

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Those in power know how to gain control:

First, intimidation is an effective means to suppress the voice of opponents.

If necessary, step up and use terror: this works by paralyzing opposition.

Acceptance

If you accept to be beaten
if you dig to be eaten,
then be my guest.

photo of ancient head of wall-sculpture (Stedelijk Museum Breda, NL)

The Pursuit

If you are hunted, and if you are a prey
you better prepare for this fact.
Ignorance and denial are the weak spots in your armour.

The Pursuit, DM, ink transfer under pressure, February 18, 2025

(c) Drager Meurtant, all images and texts

Our troubled times // Onze getroebleerde tijd

05 Wednesday Mar 2025

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(1) More Turmoil

“Trouble loving tirans and their company
follow gut feelings and grudge
happy to steer all into the abyss”

(1) Meer beroering

“Tirannen en hun volgers
die hun onderbuikgevoel en wrok
allen in de afgrond doen storten”

(collage monotype fragments and book, DM, 2025)

(2) Out of curiosity (puzzled)

“Words have started to battle
with meaning;
positions move by whim
and denial has become the
new religion.
Now push the reset button.”

(2) Uit nieuwsgierigheid (verward)

“Woorden zijn gaan strijden
met betekenis,
posities worden grillig ingenomen
en ontkenning is het
nieuwe geloof geworden.
Druk nu de ‘reset button”

(monotype ink-transfer under pressure, 22×26 cm, DM, 2025)

(c) Drager Meurtant, http://www.meurtant.exto.org

Recent Thoughts // Recente Gedachten

10 Monday Feb 2025

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“If your mind receives more pulses
than your heart beats
then let go”

Let go

Als de geest meer prikkels ontvangt / dan je hart klopt / laat dan gaan…

(collage monoprint fragments, 15×15 cm)
Drager Meurtant, 2025 (in private collection)

Leaning // Leunend

“Was it leaning or a posture
of inconfidence and shyness
that made standing tilted?”

Leaning // Leunend

“Was het leunen of een houding
voortkomend uit gebrek aan vertrouwen
en één van verlegenheid
dat voor een schuine houding tekende?”

(mixed media DM, 2024, 18 x 14 cm)

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?“

“Source”, mixed media of monoprint and etching, DM, 2023

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:

Samensmelten / Merging
L’arche de Noé / Rampenbeheer

Positions (unaware – the fall)

30 Saturday Mar 2024

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Basic terms  / (explain) / the fall as junction / between earth and / above.

Swift and silent / grades / of an approach / unwanted but inevitable.

Once steps were / made from / one position / the other ones followed / without thinking / ahead.

Positions (unaware – the fall)

Posities

(onbewust – de val)

Voorwaarden aan de basis / (verklaren) / de val als een verbinding / tussen de aarde en / daarboven.

Snelle en stille / stappen in een / benadering, ongewenst / maar onafwendbaar.

Toen treden waren / genomen van één positie / volgden de andere zonder / vooruit te denken.

(collage of monoprint fragments, 2020, part of Ben Uri Gallery Sales Exhibition, March 15-29, 2024)

The Destiny of the Line / Het Lot van de Lijn

24 Wednesday Jan 2024

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The line was drawn by / two fingers of a cramped / hand of the writer who wanted / words catched in image, this time / but halfway the paper / had to experience the line let / loose of the tip of the pencil,

and / next

moved freely through space / – that served the scene – / to land in the end / in a dash, or dot / on the ceiling.

Content – where the ink was scraped, there came content (DM, 2021, monoprint)

De lijn werd getrokken door / twee vingers aan de krampachtige / hand van de schrijver die woorden, nu eens / in beeld wilde vatten / maar halfweg het papier / moest ervaren dat de lijn los liet / van de punt van het potlood,

en / vervolgens

vrijelijk bewoog in de ruimte / – die plaats bood voor de scene – / om uiteindelijk te landen / in een vlek, of punt / op het plafond.

(Text & image / terkst en beeld, Drager Meurtant, 2021-2024)

Opposing, but no real harm done

08 Tuesday Nov 2022

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“The view of the other is confronting,

even dangerous, perhaps

threatening our lives”.

For horses

opposition may mean a bruise

or a bite

but no deep animosity

and mounting hard-feelings.

Misanthropy has no equine

equivalant.

Tegengesteld, zonder echt te kwetsen

“De kijk van de ander is confronterend,

zelfs gevaarlijk, misschien

voor ons levensbedreigend.”

Bij paarden,

betekent tegenstelling een beurse plek

of een beet

maar geen diepe vijandigheid

en groeiende animositeit.

Misanthropie kent geen

paarden equivalent.

(poetry and monoprint, DM, 2022, http://www.meurtant.exto.org))

Thinking about earlier times / Denkend aan vroegere tijden

19 Sunday Jun 2022

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Clouds and sun, and earth:
where I rest, there is
crumbly clay that harbours
the memory of a face, of
a jar in Hellas,
of a teacher at school.

Lino-cut / linosnede, DM, 2021

Wolken en zon en aarde:
waar ik rust, daar koestert
kruimelige klei de herinnering
van een gezicht, van
een kruik in Hellas,
van een leraar op school.

Graphics edition one (DM, 25-05-2021), poem 03-04-2022

Mailart – Kloster / Cloister

05 Sunday Jun 2022

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Vernissage anlässlich der Eröffnung des Klostermuseums Zehdenick, 12. Juni 2022: Mailart Kloster.

Vernissage to celebrate opening of Klostermuseum Zehdenick, June 12th, 2022: Mailart Cloister.

Galerist: Dr Christian Spunk Seipel.

Contribution / Beitrage Drager Meurtant (NL)

Memory the lines (DM, monoprint-collage, 2022)
Mark the lines (DM, monoprint-collage, 2022)

(www.meurtant.exto.org)

Address: Klosterscheune Zehdenick
Am Kloster 1
16792 Zehdenick

Deutschland / Germany