Table Tops
Henri Burkhard
Like so many American artists at the turn of the century, Henri Burkhrad had to leave his native land for Paris in order to find his painterly voice. Paris was the centre of the avant-garde, a melting pot of radical ideas, experimentation, and wild characters who encouraged each other to push the envelope further in a single minded journey towards subjective truth. Burkhard had a by-the-numbers artistic education, attending three of the great Académies in the city and honing the traditional skills he had learnt as a young man in New York to novel effect. He returned home shortly before this work was painted, bringing with him the new way of thinking he had learnt overseas, and was quickly celebrated as a leading figure in the American modernist movement, exhibiting extensively at major galleries and museums across the country. Burkhard fell into relative obscurity later in life, and his contribution to a uniquely American painterly style is rarely discussed, but his cubist inspired still lives still retain a sense of potency today.
Thursday 4th June
The Moon rises in Sagittarius before transitioning into the constellation of Capricorn, bringing us into a more earthly disposition, perhaps even influencing the weather and drawing our attention back towards matter, structure, and form. As the Moon enters Capricorn, it also joins Pluto. Pluto is currently in retrograde, meaning that from a geocentric perspective it appears to be moving backwards through the heavens. For many, this can be experienced as a long period of deep reflection, inner transformation, and the uncovering of what has been hidden beneath the surface. Pluto takes around 248 years to orbit the Sun, while the Moon takes only a month to move through the twelve signs of the zodiac. Because of this, the Moon quickly comes into conjunction with Pluto, bringing a brief but powerful meeting between a slow, generational force and the fast-moving rhythm of our emotional life.
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