Black Light

Black Light
Rosário dos Mosteiros



Black Is The Light

Black is the Light that comes from Heaven
Black is the Light that changes your Life

Xanadu (Ofvaticanfame) for Blogspot.Com (June 2006)
(Thanks to Lisboa and Reality)



Rosário dos Mosteiros (Pt I)


(ONE--Transept)

Without Nose Too
Tomb of D Inès de Castro

Nose damaged as if withered out
featuring celestial to your left
holding horizontal head of Inès--

Cherub’s cherubims seated aside
and deterioration to our right’s
as all hall’s light touches frontal face
to pray for reparation of sin
and restoration of art.

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(Thanks to Mosteiro de Alcobaça)


(TOO--King’s Room)

Terracotta Kings

In mirror places plaster gives sway to brown
where terracotta hasnot been heated thoroughly
it may leave off to show inside of black
not to be covered by any mask of restoration.

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(Thanks to Mosteiro de Alcobaça)


(FOR--Kings’ Room)

Head Duarte

Split in bay and gray
its eyes are covered by dark
of twilight in and outside of monastery
growing deeply brownish unto its beard
it speckles russet and red on its bust.

Woodenly painted irish’s irises
and big back oakly pupils

underneath

small crown as compared to miters and crowns
of Archbishops and Popes

near and closeby

they stare down as if lost in thoughts
about there split appearance
the fall from grace and separation from body
because of reasons of .... and restoration
... inside ... moustache
curls all over beard as well as

Black Light ...

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(THEE--Refectory)

San Bernardo
Sir-face like Terracotta

Pale surface like plaster
when it is in fact wooden
sculpture like terracotta
when it is actually wood
crusted and busted
split but not entirely yet
cracked but not open yet
crackled but not damaged yet.

Yet--

it shows humble draperies
not that flamboyant and exuberant

though--

hands left out like an empty mannequin
still to be dressed up to prepare for sales.

His head--

to the left as well as to back right
missing by splinters
though parts’ absence don’t seemingly
distance our human shape

--

only lacking an ear to a side
like Saint Peter did Not after Christ’s capture;

doubles of his and its, is and ours,
ambiguity of reverence and sense
in semeiosis of religion’s trinity

when ours is only hours
and Yours is both His and its
we may await salvation from wood
where icon is index is symbol.*

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(Thanks to Mosteiro de Alcobaça)


(FIRE--Relics’ Chapel)

Without Face Too
Virgin Relicário

Standing on three angels
like Shiva on a vehicle
the heart shows light and
slightly reflective peace

of glass deeply blood inside.

Her head has lost its face and
flat front has been blackened
as burned by desire to God;
emphasizing heart over sight

in spiritual ecstasy of identity
of grace of glass and light of black.

Face smashed into small pieces
split out and not to be replaced
after temporary restorations
of four hundred degrees of clay;

in between Saint Isaiah in lime
and rustic angel in music
aesthetics of deterioration turn
into metaphysics of spirituality.

Xanadu (Ofvaticanfame) for Blogspot.Com (June 2006)
(Thanks to Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça
Alcobaça Portugal UNESCO and Isabel Costeira)



Notes, allusions, references

Rosário dos Mosteiros comp. Khajuraho Styles

Without Nose Too--comp. Tanyao Caves--A
Metaphysical Approach

Terracotta Kings comp. Poetical Portrayal of
Terracotta Warriors and Horses

*Il Mosè--Semeiosis (Pt I)/Michelangelo in Vincoli

Images

A Chinese Catalogue
http://scars.tv/xanadu.html
(Tanyao Caves)
cave16--untitled too, cave18--long sleeve,
cave20untitled ..., without nose ...

Andalusian Arts
http://www.angelfire.com/blog/xanaduarts/
Andalusian_Arts
Alcobaça D Inès Tomb
Virgem Reliário
San Bernardo ...