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
05 Monday Aug 2024
Posted in art, graphics, philosophy, poetry, poezie
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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:
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.
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
19 Friday Apr 2024
Posted in nature, natuur, outdoor, philosophy, poetry
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Once green leaves unfold
touched by light inevitable,
and the tumult of bulletins of war
is quenched by the streams
of food and fluids that trees use
to establish a firm dictate of spring,
then those with arms and bullets
are dislodged into an obscure abyss of
irrelevance and oblivion, from
which escape can only occur by
pushing by press agencies.
Other forces are minute and unheard
yet unstoppable, such as time
and the sequence of seasons,
the need felt by birds to sing
in spring.
And here and now
I must give way, since no words
can catch this inner drive to
flourish and to follow the laws
of nature.
The path we might follow
runs back in time, where the past
has taken firm position, in anger
fuelled by neglect and
by being overlooked.
Photos and text by Drager Meurtant, April 2024
30 Saturday Mar 2024
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.
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)
10 Sunday Mar 2024
Posted in art, assemblage, Dada, Decay, inside, kunst, photography, poetry, stones, street photography
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abandoned, art-with-a-mission, Dada, fotografie, History, kunst, leerfabriek, photography, poetry, poezie, travel
A visit to old leather factory in Oisterwijk (NL) May 8, 2014, combined with a view of paintings by WOLS in Museo Sofia Reina in the same year, Madrid (E) made me create assemblage.
With group of 12 photographers, we were allowed to search for good places to photograph.
One way out
“So, there is only one way out. // But there are no stairs. // There is no rope, no trampoline. // You have no wings even. // Knowing that the heat will become intolerable / how do you get out?!”
Not to be seated
“Here one stands in awe / and one’s mind lingers / about those, who once were sitting on the benches. // But after what happened / the holiness of this sacred site / does not allow anyone to be seated here / anymore.”
“Three trestles under the hatch: Even, / if the memory / of an empty room / with stone trestles, that once
all photos, texts & art (c) Drager Meurtant, 2014 – 2024
29 Monday Jan 2024
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Dada, fotografie, gedicht, kunst, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie
Today, the world looked safer / without sirens, no shooting till 14 hours / and the car moved smoothly
accross the border / separating two countries for long / only in war having been united by force.
One hour later, the friends did meet / first time in almost 4 months.
It took two hours to talk down / the big C that shaped lives / and for leaving the extra coat / worn for safety.
And then they took a dive where it was / forbidden / followed by coffee on / a terrace looking at the river Rhine.
(terras aan de rivier de Rijn)
Vandaag kwam de wereld veiliger over / zonder sirenes, geen schieten tot 14 uur / en de auto bewoog langzaam / langs de grens / die de twee landen lang had gescheiden / alleen verenigd in de oorlog / door macht.
Eén uur later, ontmoetten de vrienden / elkaar voor het eerst in bijna vier maanden. / Het nam twee uur om de grote C / omlaag te praten, die het leven beheerste / en om de extra jas – gedragen voor de veiligheid – achter te laten.
En toen doken ze in het water waar het verboden was / gevolgd door koffie op / een terras dat uitkeek op de rivier de Rijn.
Drager Meurtant, June 24, 2020 (during lift of first Covid19 lockdown, minor corrections Jan 29, 2024)
24 Wednesday Jan 2024
Posted in art, creation, Dada, Figurative art, graphics, kunst, poem, poetry, poezie, Uncategorized
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.
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)
01 Saturday Apr 2023
Posted in tentoonstelling, Uncategorized
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begrenzingen, borders, boundaries, fotografie, grenzen, kunst, photography, poetry, poezie, sociologie
(With)in or (With)out – Borders and Boundaries
“We gaan op weg, ja, maar overal botsen we op grenzen:
Grenzen die anderen stellen: fysiek, met douanecontrole, hoge hekken of soms zelfs met landmijnen.
Of we botsen op limieten in normen en moraal.
En, vroeger of later stuiten we op grenzen die ons lijf of geest tegenkomt”
Tentoonstelling in Kunstruimte De Melkfabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 27 mei tm 18 juni, 2023
Drager Meurtant – Staande voor het hek, lino-snede, 2018
Achttien kunstenaars uit acht landen laten hun visie zien in beeld of woord. In bijgaand boek tevens vijf essays van Richard Candidá Smith, Zhinia Noorian, David Estrada, George Kabel en Drager Meurtant, en achtergrondinformatie over over achtergrond en motief van de kunstenaars en beeldmateriaal.
Deelnemende kunstenaars
Initiatief van kunstenaars Drager Meurtant (NL), Jeanine Keuchenius (NL) en Petra Senn (D)
Verder nemen deel:
Katherine Chang-Liu (USA), Brian Dickerson (USA), Nina Fraser (Portugal), Joris van Gennip (NL), Carlo Grassini & Bill Thomas (USA), Sylvia Hubers (NL), Michal Iwanoski (Poland / UK), George Kabel (NL), Max King Cap (USA), Anna-Maria Komorowska (D), Oliver Merce (RO), Dorothee Mesander (GR), Ruth Philo (UK), Martien Vogelesang (NL).
The Milkfactory / De Melkfabriek, Guldenvliesstraat4H, 5211 AM, ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Brian Dickerson: ‘Vroman’ is een drie-dimensionaal ‘constructed painting’ dat aansluit bij het thema ‘Grenzen en Begrenzingen’ door het loslaten van vaste, fysieke posities
Preview (op uitnodiging) op 26 mei vanaf 15 uur
Formele opening 27 mei 14 – 17 uur
Openingstijden: Za 27/5, Zo 28/5, Ma 29/5, Za 3/6, Zo 4/6, Za 10/6, Zo 11/6, Za 17/6, Zo 18/6
Dagelijks van 13 – 17 uur.
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