Thursday, 9 June 2016

Please note that there will be no reading next Thursday, 16  June 2016. The Foundation remains closed all week due to the Joyce Symposium held in London, which the staff are attending.

The last reading stopped at: 

THE QUOITS

Jigjag. Jigajiga. Jigjag. (15.1138)

Catherine Meyer, local artist and regular member of the reading groups, sends in the following:

Bloom is in an imaginary court and four women are accusing him having behaved indecently and obscenely to them. Mary Driscoll (scullery maid), Mrs Yelverton Barry, Mrs Bellingham and the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys are shown on my painting. In the background is the court room with Bloom and in the foreground a rendering of the four furious ladies. The story gets more and more crazy and the various  allegations link back to Sacher Masoch's book Venus in Furs (Venus im Pelz). Technique: charcoal and pastel.

© Catherine Meyer, Zürich 2016

Thursday, 2 June 2016

The reading stopped at: 

BLOOM 

(indistinctly) University of life. Bad art. (15.840)

Catherine Meyer sends an illustration for one of the scenes read with the group. She says:

For my charcoal painting, I have illustrated Bloom together with various dogs at the moment when he gets rid of his crubeen and trotter in a “dark stale stunk corner”. In the foreground another dog “drives a cold snivelling muzzle against his hand, wagging his tail”. At the same time a “wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out”. In the background “two raincaped watch approach, silent, vigilant” (15.663–67).

© Catherine Meyer, Zürich 2016

Thank you, Catherine!