The other character, the Prefect, is oppressed by a persecution complex which causes him to believe he is the target of conspiracies, machinations, surveillance, traps and shadowing.

He feels he is being spied on, everything is against him, everyone is watching him from windows, from shops, from bars; wherever he goes, wherever he stops, there’s always someone behind his back watching his every move.

Deeply disappointed by the behavior of his superiors who had promised him a promotion and the directorship of the prefecture, he was unable to bear the deceit and it makes him lose his mind.

Corn Dance in Santa Clara, 1950

Two dancers leave the northern kiva to enter the plaza of Santa Clara, one of the tewa pueblos.

They participate in the Corn Dance; the woman wears the typical tablet headdress and a wool cloak with an interwoven wool and cotton belt and high moccasins.

Her arms are adorned with turquoise and silver bracelets and she wears a turquoise and coral necklace around her neck.

They both hold fir springs.

The man has painted his body with white and black and wears a seashell and coral necklace, a cotton dance skirt with woolen embroidery, a beautiful cotton belt and a leather belt with bells.

The anklets are made with skunk fur and are sewn to white moccasins; he has a fox tail hanging behind him.

In the voluptuousness of her refined furniture

Before dinner, she plays Claude Debussy.

CHARLES MARTIN 1913

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

When will you end, snowflakes which descend,

Assailing as if by blows, upon the tip of my nose!

CHARLES MARTIN 1913

The picaresque tone, the bewildering dialogues, the appearing and disappearing characters, the clamorous, impudent absence of any narrative structure.

A fascinating predilection for mental shifting, for the voluptuousness of sinking, the masochistic pleasure of senseless conversations, which once more place television as the undisputed protagonist, alongside our daily blah blah…

In other words, our days, our senseless busyness, the newspapers.

All my memories of Gambettola’s countryside: the hunchback who asked for money to show his wife’s tits.

There were different rates: from outside of the house through the closed shutters; from the threshold, she at the end of the kitchen lifting her pullover slightly; without the pullover.

Generally, four or five farmers would follow the wretched husband, elbowing each other, laughing excitedly and bashfully.

Video, audio, sculptures, photographs, with one constant fixation: the subject of the body in movement, the speed (Saturn in Gemini) in relation to the endless landscape of his native land.

His unusual “Placet and highway”, an unlikely highway barrier made of bottles, object, cans in the infinite desert.

Amidst skateboards, hip hop and graffiti, the impossible delirium of “Forma Bilancino” is in perpetual motion.

That’s what they do, do, do

Marionette: 3 pirouettes and then they’re off.

GEORGE LEPAPE 1912

ALLEGORY OF THE EARTH– MINIATURE OF THE “EXULTET”, DATING BACK TO THE 11^th CENTURY– CATHEDRAL ARCHIVE, BARI

The large sleeves of the female surplice were already characteristic of 11^th-century fashion, as were the tight sleeves of the tunic, worn underneath, of which only the cuffs could be seen.

The decoration of the fabric probably has an allegorical character, as does the fantastic hairstyle that portrays the Earth’s vegetation, while the simple combing of the hair, parted in the middle, is inspired by reality

ALL THE COLOURS OF INFAMY

I don’t like him much!

In the small world of colours, yellow is the outsider, stateless, the one which others mistrust and who is devoted to infamy.

Yellow like fading photographs, like dying leaves, like betraying men…

Judas’ robe was yellow.

In olden times, forger’s homes were daubed with the colour yellow.

The star which marked the Jews and destined them to deportation was yellow…

There’s no doubt about it: yellow does not have either a good reputation or a good story.

But for what reason?

Let’s finally uncover the mysteries of the colour yellow.