Patti Smith - Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)

Is this what it's all about, in the end ? ...

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. 

- Michelangelo -

Karl Lemieux... Hypnotic genius.

Karl Lemieux is truly inspired, immensely creative and amazingly talented. His esthetic is definitely unique and original, beautiful and timeless, tormented, raw but also mellow, violent and peaceful... absolutely brilliant and delightful.

I don't know if any video in the World can show the intensity of his art as it is on a big screen... how brilliant and beautiful it is... Still, it remains extremely moving and "not too far from the truth"!
He doesn't have that much of a presence on the web either...


Karl is also a member and co-fonder of the Double Negative Collective, based in Montreal. A couple of his incredible films can be seen by following the link below, along with other beautiful films from his über talented partners in that collective.

www.vitheque.com/DoubleNegativeCollective


I guess, the best thing to do for now is just to keep looking for one of his performances ( It feels good to live in Montreal, as he resides here & offers projections sometimes ) and otherwise, to just keep digging once in a while in that big garbage that the internet is, and find one of his gems here and there when they happen to be published...

Here are a few links to a couple of interviews and videos ( Among them a couple of projections during Godspeed You! Black Emperor shows ) just to get a slight idea of his work, in different fields of expression:

http://www.incite-online.net/lemieuxone.html

http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/ARCHIVES-EN-MUTATIONS,664

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel (Violin And Piano)

Alexandre Pouchkine ~ Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)

VERS D'ALBUM POUR SOSNITSKAÏA

Ô vous qui unissez au plus près des cœurs

le charme de vos yeux qui brûlent,

il faut être un peu fou pour vous aimer, vraiment,

et bien plus fou pour ne point vous aimer.

 A *** !

Je revois l'instant merveilleux

où devant moi tu apparus,

vision à peine ébauchée, 

claire image de la beauté.

Accablé jusqu'au désespoir, 

assourdi par le bruit du monde,

j'entendis longtemps ta voix tendre

et rêvai de tes traits aimés.

Les ans passèrent. Les tempêtes

au vent jetèrent tous mes rêves

et j'en oubliai ta voix tendre

et les traits purs de ton visage.

Mes jours se traînaient silencieux

dans une sombre réclusion, 

sans génie, sans inspiration, 

sans vie, sans amour et sans larmes.

Quand sonna l'heure du réveil, 

devant moi tu réapparus,

vision à peine ébauchée,

claire image de la beauté,

et mon cœur s'est remis à battre,

ivre de voir ressusciter

le génie et l'inspiration,

la vie et l'amour et les larmes

POÉSIES 

nrf Poésie / Gallimard

Traduction de Louis Martinez .

*********

TO...

I just recall this wondrous instant: 

You have arrived before my face -- 

A vision, fleeting in a distance,

A spirit of the pure grace.

In pine of sorrow unfair,

In worldly harassment and noise

I dreamed of your beloved air

And heard your quiet, gentle voice.

Years passed. The tempests' rebel senders 

Have scattered this delightful dream,

And I forgot this sound tender

And how heavenly you seemed.

In gloomy dark of isolation,

My days were gradually moved, 

Without faith and inspiration, 

Without tears, life, and love.

My soul awoke with decision: 

And you again came as a blest, 

Like an enchanting fleeting vision, 

A spirit of the pure grace.

My heart beats on in resurrection -- 

It has again for what to strive: 

Divinity and inspiration,

Life, tears, and eternal love.

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, December 1995,

Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, July 1996.

The Dream

Not long ago, in a charming dream,

I saw myself -- a king with crown's treasure;

I was in love with you, it seemed,

And heart was beating with a pleasure.

I sang my passion's song by your enchanting knees.

Why, dreams, you didn't prolong my happiness forever?

But gods deprived me not of whole their favor:

I only lost the kingdom of my dreams.

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, January, 2000

Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, March, 2000

Tarkovski on Arts, Solitude and Life