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The Potato Eaters
Potato eaters – five peasant women, clothed in rags, seated round a square table in a brown room. The scene is set. Outside the frame,...

Richard Mather


Selected Fragments
Selected Fragments Tool-use If the hammer is a symbol Of the power of the hand, The hand is the product Of the need for a hammer. Horizon...

Richard Mather


Observations of Mountjoy Scott, the Earl of Ardenforde
Lord Ardenforde opens a jewellery box to reveal a platinum brooch, rhodium watch, immortal diamond choker; and on the quiltwork, a...

Richard Mather


Itself in Mind for the Future
We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic forms, not...

Richard Mather


Temple Curtain
"The temple curtain made of some heavy purple fabric, with its curious pleats ..."

Richard Mather


Leibniz’s Soul
What is amazing is not that my corpse was contracted and compressed into the earth’s dark matter (while my grave went unmarked and...

Richard Mather


Sky
It was at this point I stopped dreaming and looked at the sky and saw what seemed to me a mirage reflecting upon itself what it mirrored...

Richard Mather


When We Were There
When we were there in the crooked hell of that scarlet and black room, the world was a useless idol broken and beyond repair. But now we...

Richard Mather


Thought
Thought Putting aside the extensive facthood of properties and things distributed in space, one has to wonder whether existence’s sense...

Richard Mather


The Light in That Place
Photo credit: Rachel Posner / Posner Family Estate, courtesy of Shulamit Mansbach, Haifa, Israel / yadvashem.org “Our holiday has been...

Richard Mather


Krishna
Krishna Statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple (Singapore) Courtesy of AngMoKio / Wiki Maya clouds -- sattva, rajas and tamas -- Encircle...

Richard Mather


The World Is Folded in to Every Object
The world is folded in to every object And each thing or idea is the folding And unfolding of space, time and history. And the atom is...

Richard Mather


Tool-use
Tool-Use If the hammer is a symbol of the power of the hand, the hand is the product of the need for a hammer.

Richard Mather


Adam’s DescentÂ
Adam is a dry rib but sinews are stretched, tissue and flesh fashioned. Man of Spirit, embodied. Descending the mountain with Moses, he...

Richard Mather


Fichte / Picture
Fichte / Picture There is nothing real anywhere, neither outside of us nor in us. I know of no being at all. Not even myself. Images...

Richard Mather


Ishmael’s Moon
On the other side of the optic glass,
Ishmael's albino whale of the sky
Leprously blemished, ghastly white.

Richard Mather


Uncommitted
Uncommitted You can hardly say that I abide by the rules of political commitment or that I affect the diction of the dispossessed. ...

Richard Mather


Lettrism
A tool for imitating movement,
For the small things that penetrate,
For the breath's expulsion ...

Richard Mather


Horizon
objects are luminous: their light appears on the intellect’s horizontal plane (the boundary between knower and known).

Richard Mather


Food for the Moon
Coldly satanic is the phantom moon whose hollow shell is the alien body of a god who hatched and died too early.

Richard Mather
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