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Tuesday 31 January 2017

Thursday, 26 January 2017

The reading stopped a few pages from the end of the chapter at: the apathy of the stars” (17.2226).

Catherine has captured some of the reading in a painting. She writes: 

I tried to feel how words like envy, jealousy, abnegation and equanimity would reflect colours combined with a portrait of a nobody. This is how I see these different feelings worked into a portrait.

Catherine Meyer © 2017

Monday 23 January 2017

Thursday, 19 January 2017

The group read down to: “the woolen mattress (biscuit section)” (17.2041)

Catherine Meyer takes the last lines of the reading as a lead for a watercolour: the idea that, when an iron is unavailable, one can still press trousers by folding them neatly and placing them lengthwise between two spring mattress. She writes:

My painting shows Bloom who enjoys the merits of an occupied bed, the female warmth and the trousers, which will be ironed in the morning.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Thursday, 12 January 2017

The reading stopped soon after the description of the Wonderworker at, “a lady by origin” (17.1853).

The Wonderworker is described in more detail on http://www.jjon.org: It was a “small spade-shaped” device designed “for the insertion in the rectum, intended originally as a cure for hemorrhoids but later accepted for its talismanic properties in the treatment of all human ills” (http://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-environs/wonderworker, from Norman Lewis's autobiographyJackdaw Cake).




Monday 9 January 2017

Thursday, 5 January 2017

The reading resumed again in the new year with some of “Ithaca's” long lists. The group was lively, the reading room packed and they progressed to: all recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality” (17.1633).

Catherine Meyer, Zurich artist and long-standing member of the reading groups, sends these visual contributions for the blog and writes:

For this painting I just had to choose a long list, describing either books or the interior or the exterior of Bloom’s imagined house. The result was a picture devoid of emotions but containing all the details mentioned in the list. Too boring. I made two other paintings with the same topic. I wasn’t successful and I didn’t like them.

So instead of going through the list again I said to myself, I have my own inspiration, and I made a watercolour depicting Bloom’s leisure activities.


Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2017