(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
(…) the conventions of blazon: a type of catalog verse in which the poet lists the physical attributes of a (usually female) subject (…) strains the relation between the subject and her metaphorical body (…) re-organizing the poem, he proposes a headless subject who carries her head in her hands. We encounter the body of the text at the shoulders, after which we descend. Her head is placed in between her hands, as she touches and holds her head, and thereby her own textual representation. (…) authoring and not: he appropriates the poem (…) without taking the helm completely, thereby leaving a “headless” production with its meaning unfixed and unsettled. (…) having multiple authors but none, neither body nor metaphor, flickering in its meaning.
—Pia Louwerens, 2023
Descending Catalogue
a rearrangement of the poem L'Union libre (1931) by André Breton
artist book
2022
colour & b/w ill., 210 x 160 mm, 57 pages