tired of waiting: plumage, color, unpainted fork under tables. the figure is doused in cavafy, but no, alas, not by us. where is my opal, where is my frame with eyes

“Few people think about why our genitals perform two such contrasting functions: the production of life and the removal of dead waste from the body?” (S. Varakin). The Creator, having combined the organs of reproduction with the organs of excrement and given a person the opportunity to experience “evil joy” from the desecration of another person, apparently believed that he would not find a better guarantee of the preservation of the species.

“Before him, a stranger to his country and his time, a space opens up where he can think and even think about thinking.” This is quite easy to state, but it is impossible to achieve. In other words, it is impossible to achieve while being in the “average”, that is, no low, mental, vital, namely, unchanged (non-yogic?) state of consciousness.

E.M. Abalakov, “Alpinist”, the image was created approximately in 1938-40, installed at the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition (VDNKh) in 1954 They come down to the viewer from above. The gods descend from the peaks to mortals, clinging to the icy slopes with ancient crampons and ice axes so as not to slip into the fire of human existence too quickly. Their features are drawn very vaguely, they do not resemble anyone and at the same time - everyone at the same time.