Allen Ball: The Wordless Book & other sounds
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Allen Ball, "Zero One," 2005-2020
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Allen Ball: The Wordless Book & other sounds
"These paintings trace the buzzing sounds that the bees in my mind have drawn in their journey to yet another flower in yet another garden." - Allen Ball
‘In his book: Où boivent les loups, Tristan Tzara writes:
Le marché du soleil est entré dans la chambre
Et la chambre dans la téte bourdonnette.
(The market of the sun has come into my room
And the room into my buzzing head.)
In order to accept and hear this image, one must experience the strange whir of the sun as it comes into a room in which one is alone, for it is a fact that the first ray strikes the wall. These sounds will be heard also-over and beyond the fact-by those who know that every one of the sun’s rays carries with it bees. Then everything starts buzzing and one’ head is a hive, the hive of the sounds of the sun.’ 1
1. Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press Books, 1994, p. 226-227.