Thursday, 3 November 2016

The last reading stopped at: “The Arabian Nights Entertainment was my favourite and Red as a Rose is She.” (16.1681)

The reading was another “exciting and enthralling one”, says Catherine Meyer, who sends a rendering of it in one of her own equally engaging paintings. She writes:

Earlier in the day Bloom had seen those Grecian statues, perfectly developed as works of art, and wondered whether they also had an anus or not. Thinking back to those perfect statues and looking at an old photograph of his singing wife which he has been showing stephen, he then remembers “the morning littered bed etcetera and the book about Ruby with met him pike hoses (sic) in it which must have fell down sufficiently appropriately beside the domestic chamberpot with apologies to Lindley Murray” (16.1472).

I chose these thoughts for a visual interpretation. It is an echo to the third chapter where Stephen thinks about the “ineluctable modality of the visible” (3.1).

Audible and written words = nacheinander

Visible and paintings = nebeneinander

So, you can see Bloom’s various thoughts in one picture. I had a lot fun with this subject and have thus painted it in lively colours.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016