the stars are clear sounds; the sun a magnificent silence; the moon?...whispers that are almost sounds in the undulating wave of noise the universe is

cracks in stan brakhage's dog star man - prelude - 1964

painting in dog star man - prelude

painting and some scratching in dog star man, part 3.

- related work -

jackson pollock - triad - 1948

jackson pollock - number 22a, 1948 - 1948

jackson pollock - untitled ca. 1950 (detail)

jackson pollock - one: number 31 - 1950

jackson pollock

barnett newman - untitled - 1961

clyfford still - painting - 1951-52

clyfford still - untitled (ph-58) - 1951 - detail
(one of my favourite paintings in the sfmoma)

robert motherwell - untitled - 1967

robert motherwell - octavio paz, three poems 8 - 1987

robert motherwell - in plato's cave

robert rauschenberg - untitled (glossy black painting) - ca. 1951

alberto burri - cretto - 1973

lucio fontana - concetto spaziale - 1952

(title from brakhage's the stars are beautiful)

plants & earth

hugo simberg in the garden of death 1896

max klinger terrace 1879

johann wolfgang von goethe budding, flowering, and branching systems 1786/87

robert rauschenberg dirt painting (for john cage) 1953 & untitled (gold painting) 1953

jean dubuffet la physique du sol (texturologie xxiii) 1958

jean dubuffet vie exemplaire du sol (texturologie lxiii) 1958

books:
-the painter's garden: design, inspiration, delight, hatje cantz.
-formless: a user's guide, yve-alain bois and rosalind e. krauss, zone.
-jean dubuffet: the radiant earth, pace wildenstein.