Desire and Unseen Orders
TLS January 12 2011 from Julian Bell's review of Deanna Petherbridge's The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and theories of practice : ... Klee's notion of "taking a line for a walk", or Matisse's "desire of the line"... *** from John Ray's review of British Museum exhibit "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead": O my heart of my mother, my heart of my forms, do not stand against me as a witness, do not oppose me in the tribunal, do not incline against me in the presence of the Keeper of the scales, for you are my spirit which is in my body, the god with the potter's wheel who moulded and made safe my limbs. Go on to the happy places to which we speed. In ancient Egypt, these were the words that were needed during the judgement of the dead. The subject's heart is being weighed in a balance, in the presence of the most awesome of the gods. In the opposite pan of the scales is the feather of truth, and the heart of the righteo...