Thursday, 25 August 2016

The reading stopped at:

LYNCH:

(points) The mirror up to nature. (he laughs) Hu hu hu hu hu! (15.3820)

Catherine Meyer sends her rendering in image: 

A painting of the three girls Kitty, Florry and Zoe – one on which, funnily enough, the sunny weather had its influence. Unconsciously I drew the interior of the brothel and the three prostitutes in shiny yellow and light colours. It seems to me that, in the brothel chapter, the three are having quite a good time, chattering and squabbling and, with a bit of luck, earning at last a few coins.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016

Thank you, Catherine!

Thursday, 18 August 2016

The reading stopped at: 
BLOOM: Done.Prff! (15.3390)

Catherine Meyer sends her painting with these words:

In the last reading we were still surrounded by the same characters: Bello, Bloom and some others such as Milly, Nymphs, Voices and the Echo. Still insulting Bloom. That’s why I clung to the lovely limerick that Fritz recited to us 5 minutes before the end of the reading. The sentence that reminded him of the limerick was:

“The wanton ate grass wildly.” (15.3357)

It is the paragraph in which Bloom confesses his first adventure with a girl named Lotty Clarke. Joyce describes the sex appeal of springtime and Lotty. At reading “the wanton ate grass wildly”  Fritz recited, with a chuckle, the following limerick.

There once was a girl from Madras

Who had such a beautiful ass

It was not round and pink

As you probably think

But had two ears, a tail and ate grass. 

From here, I began to think about donkeys and how I could put together a pink round ass with no pink round ass but long ears, a tail and grass:

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016

Thursday, 11 August 2016

The next reading will be picked up at, “The sins oft he past (in a medley of voices)” (15.3027).

Catherine Meyer sends in the following image to illustrate the reading, with a few accompanying words: 

The Bella Cohen paragraph seemed an obvious choice. It is full of hints and descriptions and I have made a charcoal drawing of it.

Bella is dressed in an ivory gown, her eyes are deeply carboned, she has a dark fan and a sprouting moustache. Bloom has been humiliated by Bella and has to kneel down to lace her hoof.

In the background the devil is in the door, Richie Goulding sitting is in a chair and indefinable next to him are Zoe and Kitty.

But the main topic is the rendering of Bloom, who is enslaved and treated as an inferior character. I painted him three times in a kneeling position, face covered and hiding his lust and reluctance.

Not really a summery picture but a rendering that tells a long story about human beings and their wrong ways.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016

Thursday, 28 July 2016

The last session stopped at STEPHEN'S “Cardinal sin. Monks of the screw.” (15.2653)

Local artist Catherine Meyer sends a picture to illustrate the last reading , a “stately, rubicund Ben Dollard”, as she calls it, and continues:

I love the adjectives Joyce uses to describe his characters and I am delighted with his fantasy and imagination that seem to be endless. So the following paragraph triggered my curiosity as to wether and how Ben Dollard would appear on the paper. The description of Ben Dollard by Joyce is:

“Ben Jumbo Dollard, rubicund, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fatpapped, stand forth, his hoins and genitals tightened into a pair of black bathing bagslops.” (15.2604–7)

Enjoy Ben Dollard's self portrait.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016