Jackie Triptych
Andy Warhol
John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Andy Warhol turned his, the nations, and Jackie’s pain into art. Dissatisfied with the media coverage, and acutely aware of the symbol that Jackie Kennedy was becoming, without agency or choice, Warhol re-enacted the event over and over again by silk-screening images of the grieving Kennedy taken from Life magazine. The work is at once compassionate and detached; by focusing on the first lady’s face, he emphasis and reminds us of her bravery, her courage and her grief, but he also participates in the process of removing her humanity and making her become an image, a representation of the nation and a historical event. Warhol, in 1964, was only beginning to get to grips with the new art of screen-printing, having started less than two years earlier. The Jackie works marked a turning point, as he realised the power of a repeatable medium, and how the images that were flooding public consciousness could be replicated, distorted and recontextualised to speak to a wider idea permeating the culture.
Monday 1st June
Today, the Moon rises in the constellation of Scorpio in its sidereal rhythm. With this movement, it also reaches its lowest position on the horizon, from which it will begin to set a little higher each day over the next two weeks. This upward movement can help the sap to rise, supporting the development of the plant above ground: the leaves, flowers, and fruits. By contrast, there is less affinity with the forces beneath the diaphragm of the soil, making root development subtly less effective during this time. Alongside this larger shift in rhythm, we also see the Moon at apogee, meaning it is at its furthest point from the Earth. This is a rhythm separate from the sidereal movement. In the very early morning, apogee may bring forces of cosmic light and distance, though this influence quickly fades, allowing the watery, transformative forces of Scorpio to come more fully through.
30 Fire (The Phoenix) - The I Ching
The Phoenix is pure gain...
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