The Royal Rosamond Art Galleary
by
John Presco
Copyright 2023
In 1960, my uncles, Jim Bigalow, showed me the painting his friend, Walter Keene, gave him. Jim had the Keenes over for dinner, frequently. It was Christmas. I said this
“This is not real art. This is commercial art made for the masses!”
Jim gave me a look, that could kill. He was furious. The Prescos were not invited back next year. When Christine became famous, we never heard from Bonnie, Jim, and Mike Bigalow.
I got MY family back! Heather is MY daughter. Tyler is MY grandson. Ember is MY granddaughter. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, and, my company The Royal Rosamond Art Gallery – I GET TO PLAY GOD – AND GODDESS! Alas, I will get MY way. I will soon send out invitations to AI Artists and ask them show at my AI Gallery. I’m going to contact the AI Artist ‘Rosy’ and ask her to render my Bond character, Miriam Starfish Christling – who is now the Bodyguard of the Royal Rosamond Art Gallery. Starfish will protect John Presco ‘Art God’ from all who mean to do me harm, or rip-off any aspect of the Royal Rosamond Brand. I have asked a couple of people for assistance, and they want everything. There are no binding contracts or agreements – at this time.
Twenty years ago, I was shocked to see the artworld of an old Iranian man, who posed as a woman. He ripped off the name of the famous fashion photographer, Sarah Moon. Today, with the exploring of AI Art all over the internet, this is MY touchstone, for I was mistaken for Bejan Djamalzadeh, who concealed his identity in order to make more money by knocking off Rosamond look-alikes. Of course his work was compared to the art of Rosamond. No women objected to him being an Imposter. It was just fine that his women were…..Rosamondish! Marilyn Reed took some of my work to Ira of the Ira Robert Gallery, and he said they were too “surrealistic” and if I altered them, he would give me a show. I was not “Rosamondish” enough. If yu take the letter SARA MOON you can make..
ROSAMOAN
Did Ira Cohen set up the Red Baron publishing to handle Bejan – and hide the fact he was a man?
I hereby declare that all AI portraits of women are…….ROSAMONDISH. I have a vested interest in perpetuating this title via my DNA SIGNATURE for many generations to come.
Royal Rosamond Art Gallery is proud to present my latest work ‘Tyler In The Field’. Tyler Hunt is my grandson who wanted to be an artist. But, his wicked grandmother frowned upon it because she wanted to be the Heir to the Rosamond Brand. While doing a watercolor portrait of Tyler’s mother when she was sixteen, I offered to teach her Rosamond’s style. Again, the Wicked Granny did not like this. No Rosamond Blood and DNA flow in that evil woman’s veins. Ripping off my DNA in order to make money and own power – is the most dramatic story in The History of Art.
I began this work using Fotor, by typing in “Boy walking in field of grass” The boy in the blue shirt of the Evolve 2. The boy with dark hair, is Evolve 5 – and is the boy I knew – before he was handed over the Tea Party fanatics.
This is a young man making his way in the world, determined to have his own way. Tyler is an Aries, whose hair turned darker as he grew older. My grandson joins my brother’s son, Cian Presco, who was rendered by my sister, Christie Rosamond Bentonm and tiled ‘Garden Child.
I wish my grandson all the best as he is about to be a man. There’s a great big wide world out there.
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Meeting ‘Sara’
Sarah Moon – Silverstein – Marilyn
Posted on September 17, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is the testimony of Steven Silverstein who met and worked for the real Sarah Moon. Marilyn Reed was a friend of the Silverstein family and posed for a photographic shoot on Malibu Beach, where Steven honed his skills that would make him world famous. I did a painting from this image and gave it to my childhood sweetheart.
“I was broke when I returned but a month later got a call from Sarah Moon whom I had met while in Paris. She asked if I would help her crew with a production in Los Angeles. With the money I made, I bought a new 35mm Nikon and launched the testing I hoped would take me back to Paris. I worked hard at it, working twice a month with two models, Amy and Pam. To support myself I took a job as a waiter but was so bad at it I only lasted a week! As luck would have it, the very day I was fired, I got a call from Warner Bros. Records to do an album cover. I started picking up freelance jobs with more record labels and magazines – A&M Records, Capitol, Playboy and others.”
Here is the real SaraH Moon with the H put back in her name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Moon
Last night I discovered Steven has become an artist. His art resembles the work I did inspired by Stefan Eins. I am going to e-mail Eins – of FasHion Moda – this post and have him go to the June Bateman Gallery in New York.
http://www.silversteinphotography.net/
http://silversteinfineart.com/silverstein-fine-art-blog-1/
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f71/steven-silverstein-photographer-260915.html
I suspect Red Baron publishing was founded by Ira Cohen who owned Ira Roberts Gallery. I believe 1979 was the year Christine went with Circle Gallery, and did very well. Was Ira jealous? Did he want revenge? After all, he claims he developed her style. Rosemary told me Ira wanted me in his stable of artists, before Christine sued him. Marilyn did take some of my work to his gallery, but, they were not what he was looking for. He wanted Fashion Portraits, like Christine and Sara Moon were cranking out.
So…..will the real Sara Moon, and Christine Rosamond…..please stand up!
Here is a photo of Rosemary with her doves. Throw some roses around her and you got the faux Sara Moon. The name – works! From Rosemary was born a world famous artist like Leonardo Da Vinci, and a pre-Brown solver of mysteries, as my letter to Lillian proves. But, here is the clincher. Belle’s parents conducted Labyrinth rituals that are linked to the name Rosamond, thus the Legend of Fair Rosamond, who was the subject of several Pre-Raphaelite portraits, that can be linked to Grail Lore. Fair Rosamond has been making a fashion statement for hundreds of years. She is the archetype lineage of beautiful women, who suggest they have good genes. No one can handle a Ugly Jesus! Why? Because, he’s like a Muse – and the Republican party has got him.
The well-to-do Republican hands his wife a Gold Card and a pic of the blue-eye Chefon Jesus and bids her to go shopping. Gone is the wealthy Catholic feeling of worshipping Mary ‘Rose of the World’ Queen of Heaven with crescent moon.
My plan was to have Belle Burch come to my home where several empty canvases await. But, on the way here a wicked witch and demonic fairy, captured her, put her under her spell, and she fell asleep! Right on que! Now there grow a mountain of thorns and roses, maintained by the Rose Baron.
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-and-the-idea-of-beauty
Let us not forget about Marilyn, who makes a living sewing, and went to Paris to learn how to be a fashion designer. Rosemary wanted to be my muse, but, Marilyn would no let that happen. Why do artists and writers capture beautiful women and shut them away in a tower and labyrinth? Is it so their mothers can’t get at them?
Hey! Where did Leonardo go? M – for Mother! We all got one!
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
EPSON MFP image
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/meditations/samaha9.html
http://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Chatsworth/red-baron-art-publishing-inc/40302324.aspx
Red Baron Art Publishing, Inc. filed as an Articles of Incorporation in the State of California and is no longer active. This corporate entity was filed approximately thirty-six years ago on Tuesday, May 1, 1979 , according to public records filed with California Secretary of State.
THE story of “Fair Rosamond” and her mazy Bower, though it cannot lay claim to that standard of authenticity which is generally required of historical data, has for so long occupied an honoured position in the realm of popular romance that, in a book professing to treat of mazes from a broad point of view, we cannot dismiss it quite as briefly as we might perhaps do in a book on English history.
Catherine brought Javanese gamelan music to Eugene in 1992 with the founding of Gamelan Nuju Laras, well known for accompanying labyrinth walks.
http://coilhouse.net/2007/11/once-upon-a-time-with-sarah-moon/
http://www.junebateman.com/artists/silverstein/t00.html
http://www.junebateman.com/artists/silverstein/t10.html
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f71/steven-silverstein-photographer-260915.html
Steven SILVERSTEIN has gained a significant reputation photographing fashion and beauty for over thirty years and began shooting abstract fine art in 2013. Known throughout his career for conceptual work, lighting and a graphic simplicity that allow for an instant read, his images – whether fashion or fine art – often draw the viewer in for a closer look.
Born in Los Angeles, SILVERSTEIN began his accomplished fashion photography career with help from photographer Sarah Moon and her husband, publisher Robert Delpire, who introduced his work to Peter Knapp, the legendary art director at French Elle in the 1970s. Based primarily in Paris, he went on to work with other major fashion magazines, advertisers and designers. In addition to shooting portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Carol Bouquet, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Adjani, Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix and many other luminaries, he has created over 50 covers and nearly a thousand editorial fashion pages for international publications such as Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire and Harper’s Bazaar.
SILVERSTEIN has also shot campaigns for some of the most prominent brands in the world including Yves St. Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro, Carolina Herrera, Helena Rubenstein, Lancome, L’Oreal, among many others. His fashion photography has been in group exhibitions including Living the Bon Chic Life (BCBG) in Los Angeles (2014) and Moda in Italia, 150 Anni Di Eleganza (Vogue Italia) at the Venaria Reale in Turin, Italy (exhibition catalog, 2011), as well as published in numerous books including Elle Mode: 600 covers de 1945 à nos jours (Lagardère/Glénat, 2011), Style Elle: Nos Années 80 (Filipacchi, 2003) and Style Elle: Nos Années 70 (Filipacchi, 2002). One of his portraits was chosen in the top 200 from 200,000 images in People Magazine’s history for People: Favorite Pictures (Time Inc., 2000). In addition, SILVERSTEIN has been featured in NPA Pro Spotlight video (2011), Nikon World Magazine (2009) and PhotoArt – Hong Kong (1985), as well as garnering press in other art, design and mainstream media outlets.
Davinci Keane Code – Art Movie
Posted on February 19, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Davinci Keane Code
An idea for a movie or series
by
John Presco
Copyright 2020
For all the bragging the Bay Area has done about it being a Cultural Mecca of America – and the world – the only famous artists of this area, are Margaret and Christine Rosamond – two women! Margaret Starbird – take note! That is about to change when these huge paintings of Biblical scenes begin to appear in galleries in France and England. People are amazed! Many fall to their knees in religious rapture. There are lines around the block. However, the critics are brutal!
“Why are Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s eyes so….BIG!”
Each show will open with Davinci Keane at his easel doing his version of The Last Supper. The gray-haired gentleman turns to the camera:
“Good evening. My name is Davinci Keane. I am the illegitimate son of Walter Keane, the Great Imposter who claimed he did those Big Eye paintings. My mother is ‘Beatnik Alice’ the Queen of Berkeley Poets. Her poem was read in the movie Bucket of Blood.
The story of my father’s faux success, began when Walter brought home some photographs of the Presco Children taken by his good friend, Jim Bigalow. They had finished a round of golf, and Jim stopped by Rexall Drugs to pick them up.”
“Check these kids out. They belong to my wife’s sister. When I pulled up in my new Chrysler Imperial convertible, children swarmed us. They came at us from everywhere.”
“Excuse me. I got answer this… That will be fine. Bring them on by. My agent Sir Knight Bill Arney is bringing another load of tourist over to see my studio at a $200 hundred dollars a pop. We split 50-50!”
Interpreting Other Names in Lot 49
Although the situations of Oedipa and Mary Magdalene are comparable, it is not until other aspects of Lot 49 are considered that the significance of the connection becomes clear to the plot. Tresemer and Cannon assert that Magdalene “is considered the ‘apostle of apostles,’ and is so called even by Saint Augustine,”54 and Leloup goes on to say that “because she was the first witness of the Resurrection, she was considered by the apostle John as the founder of Christianity, long before Paul and his vision on the road to Damascus.”55 Pierce Inverarity, the writer of the will Oedipa executes and her former lover, has been interpreted by Thomas Hill Schaub to be closely connected to St Peter, who along with St Paul, is traditionally credited as being the founder of the Christian Church.56 J. Kerry Grant writes of Schaub’s interpretation of the text:
dark age.
From: “Jon Presco” <braskewitz y…>
Date: Mon May 31, 2004 6:03 am
Subject: Rosamond
“That which I was obliged to tell you of the beauty of Rosamond, in
recounting to you what fashion she appeared to the eyes of my master,
hindered me from extending something upon that of Albisinda: but I
may tell you with truth, that if Rosamond were not in the world,
perhaps there would be nothing more beautiful then that Princess; and
that next to Rosamond, she has those particular charms, which nothing
can withstand: she has without doubt has less splendor and Majesty
than the Princess of the Cimbrians.”
http://www.geocities.com/prosemont/Pha_Ros.html
In 1677 de Costes de la Calprenede is said to have written the first
historic romance novel when 1668 he compiled the history of the
Merovingian Frankish Kings in his monumental work ‘Pharamond’. Within
we have an account of Pharamond’s love for Rosemonde, the Cambrian
princess whose tribe, the Cimri, are mentioned in the Bible, they
associated with the Royal Scythians and the people of the ‘Prince of
Rosh’ that Ezekiel prophecised against in chaper 38. They are the
horseman of the Russian Steppes who would form the Celtic peoples
when they moved west. The ancestors of the Merovingians are kin to
the Cimri, who they chased into Asia, all the way to Ceylon India.
The union of Pharmond and Rosamonde will create the Sicambrian
Franks. Gardener says this union brought together to Grail
Bloodlines.
Gauthier dedicated ‘Pharamond’ to the Dutchess of Albemarle who
marired Christopher Monck, the son of George Monck the Duke of
Albemarle. Albemarle is the orignal name of the city of Charelston
which was a city founded by the The Lords Proprietors. George Monck
was instrumental in restoring the Stuarts to the throne.
I dedicate my last two weeks of blogging to my late facebook friend, Timothy Wallace-Murphy. He dropped in on the templar-yahoo now and then, and received total respect. He was our Gandalf. Being old school, he understood their was built-in fraud in almost everything, especially when it comes to spiritual matters and seeking the truth. The Eve and Apple story is not about punishment, but our fall from grace when we learn we are not perfect. Is there a Merciful God? Can we find Him in our short life-time?
“Unto thy own self be true!”
When three sisters in AA introduced themselves at the Rosamond after Christine’s funeral, I asked them if our sister completed her third step, and found a higher power.
“No!”
Was Rosamond a authentic human being?
http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2019/07/tim-wallace-murphy-passes-away.html
Sara Moon = Rosamon
Posted on December 4, 2011by Royal Rosamond Press
There is an old Iranian man who has been imitating Rosamond since 1976. He signs these knock-offs ‘Sara Moon’. Everyone thought he was a woman. He kept his true identity a secret for years. Some folks thought I was Moon. Last night I saw how similar the name SARA MOON is to the name ROSAMOND. Drop the D and you have seven of the letters that are in the name Sara Moon.“For over 15 years he was totally oblivious to the ‘Where are you, Sara?’ calls that echoed around the world from the multitude of devoted fans he had unwittingly left behind.
With his absence and Red Baron Publishing gone too, his quiet ‘disappearance’ in retirement from Verkerke, the varied signatures on the artworks created much speculation over the years that followed. Did ‘Sara Moon’ ever exist? If so, where was this reclusive artist now?”
In 1973, Christine Rosamond offered to teach me her style so I could be rich and famous, too. I turned this offer down. In 1985 I sent some of my work to my old friend, Marilyn, so she could show them to Ira Cohen, the gallery owner who discovered Rosamond, and helped develop her style. Ten of the first paintings she did for Ira, were rejected.
Upon seeing my work, that included a portrait of my Muse, Rena Christiansen, he told Marilyn my work was “Too hard edge.” But, if I soften them up, he could sell them. I got his drift. Cohen wanted more decorative fashion art.
Sara The Man tailor made his art to sell. It’s like painting checks. Mr. Bijan could care less about owning an integral artistic identity, because he loved his bank! I just couldn’t do it! If I had I would be rolling in the doe and my daughter would not call me a Parasite?
Above is a photo of Marilyn on the beach taken by her friend, Steven Silverstein, the famous fashion photographer. Steven’s women are the Real Deal, real Fashion Plates. Steven photographed some of the most beautiful women in the world, included the First Lady of France. Perhaps I should have become a fashion photographer?
It’s never – too late!
One of Moon’s women is titled ‘Hippie’. Marilyn was a Hippie. She was my first Muse who feels the injustice parasitical outsiders have inflicted upon my family.
I understand folks don’t like me because I keep pointing out real fakes, frauds, and parasites. That many of Moon’s fans don’t mind that he hood-winked them – is the real study here! Behold the Republican candidates who are running on the platform Democrats are parasites!
Some of my friends wonder why I gave up wanting to be an artist.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2011
http://www.sara-moon.com/sm-bijan/sm-bijan-html/my-trip.htm
http://www.polyvore.com/sara_moon_claudia/thing?id=4532767
http://marialaterza.blogspot.com/2011/05/sara-moon-teheran.html
http://www.stevensilversteinphotography.net/
Rose Selavy + Sara Moon
Posted on December 4, 2011by Royal Rosamond Press
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Posted on December 4, 2011 by Royal Rosamond PressThe really famous world artist, Marcel Duchamp, dressed in drag and called himself ‘Rose Selavy’. When he came to America, Vogue magazine did an article about him, and exposed him to celebrity status – American Style – where he lay his famous signature on his fans and other items in order to generate more fame – and money! This inspired Duchamp to render a check to pay for his dental work. His dentist took this check as payment understanding it would be famous one day and worth more the the cost of his work.
When Christine Roosamoon died, she left behind thousands of unsigned lithographs. Stacey Pierrot petitioned the probate court for an Estate Seal in order to apply the ROSAMOND signature from the Land of the Dead. This Seal of the Dead was a metal object that was applied to a the lower right hand corner of these prints, and the paper was raised up in a intaglio manner to make an embossed signature that can be read by the blind. This made Pierrot an Art Check Writer, who loves her bank! How can she blame Mr. Sara Moon for his attachements, his, blood-sucking?
Duchamp was a friend of Denis De Rougemont ‘The Prince of European Culture’ and co-founder of the European Union, that is rewriting its Constitution in order to keep the European Economy from collapsing. Rougemont may be our kinsfolk.
Sane folk understand the Banks of the World committed massive fraud on the people, while stupid Republican want to believe the Poor Parasitical People are to blame. This is because they are into Stupid Voo-Doo Economics, where we find Mr. Lucky Jesus handing out autographs like crazy to his – Chosen Ones!
Vogue refused to put Duchamp’s painting they commissioned on the cover of their magazine. Did in of Rena’s siters appear in Vogue? How about Steven Silverstein’s images? Did Duchamp understand fashion models were all the vogue, and thus he became one?
Jon Presco
Copyright 2011
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Rrose Sélavy, or Rose Sélavy, was one of the pseudonyms of artist Marcel Duchamp. The name, a pun, sounds like the French phrase “Eros, c’est la vie”, which translates to English as “eros, that’s life”. It has also been read as “arroser la vie” (“to make a toast to life”).
Sélavy emerged in 1921 in a series of photographs by Man Ray of Duchamp dressed as a woman. Through the 1920s, Man Ray and Duchamp collaborated on more photos of Sélavy. Duchamp later used the name as the byline on written material and signed several creations with it.
Duchamp used the name in the title of at least one sculpture, Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? (1921). The sculpture, a type of readymade called an assemblage, consists of an oral thermometer, a couple dozen small cubes of marble resembling sugar cubes inside a birdcage. Sélavy also appears on the label of Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette (1921), a readymade that is a perfume bottle in the original box. Duchamp also signed his film Anemic Cinema (1926) with the Sélavy name.
From 1922 the name Rrose Sélavy also started appearing in a series of aphorisms, puns and spoonerisms by the French surrealist poet Robert Desnos. Desnos tried to portray Rrose Sélavy as a long lost aristocrat and rightful queen of France. Aphorism 13 paid homage to Marcel Duchamp: “Rrose Sélavy connaît bien le marchand du sel” [in English: “Rrose Sélavy knows the merchant of salt well”; in French the final words sound like Mar-champ Du-cel — Duchamp’s compiled notes are titled ‘Salt Seller’]. (Note that the ‘salt seller’ aphorism – “mar-chand-du-sel” – is a phonetic rearrangement of the syllables in the artist’s actual name: “mar-cel-du-champ.”) In 1939 a collection of these aphorisms was published under the name of Rrose Sélavy, entitled Poils et coups de pieds en tous genres.
The inspiration of the name Rrose Sélavy has been viewed to be Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan’s librarian of The Morgan Library & Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library) who, following his death, became the Library’s director, working there for a total of forty-three years. Empowered by J.P. Morgan, and then by his son Jack, Greene built the collection buying and selling rare manuscripts, books and art.[1]
The late Ilmar Laaban – an Estonian poet, lecturer, polyglot and intellectual who died in exile in Sweden, who is often called “the father of Estonian surrealism”, wrote a collection of poetry called “Rroosi Selaviste” in Estonian that is based on wordplay and puns. Rroosi Selaviste (published 1957) is without a doubt one of his major accomplishments – a playful homage to his native tongue that not only shows the suppleness of the Estonian language, but also showcases Laaban’s virtuosity as a wordsmith.
Niandra LaDes, an alter ego by John Frusciante, was based on Rrose Sélavy. This character is also featured on the cover of Frusciante’s 1994 album Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt, which is a screenshot from a film by Frusciante’s then-girlfriend, Toni Oswald. This film remains unreleased, though a tradition among the avant-garde is to show the film in the proximity of items bearing a similar resemblance to a Duchampian “fountain”. [2
You know, I like signing all those things – it devalues them,” Duchamp confided to Richard Hamilton at the Pasadena Art Museum. (Tomkins 1965, p. 68.) A retrospective of his work had just opened (1963) and without reluctance Duchamp spent the morning signing papers, posters and other objects. His fame in America was greater than ever, and as Duchamp recalled himself he would sign anything in those days. (cf. Judovitz 1995, p. 162.) Many more shows were put together in the years to follow. Vogue interviewed Duchamp, museums organized round table discussions where Duchamp himself would frequently show up, and slowly a body of literature emerged that vainly tried to pin down the meaning of his work.
A little over a year after Pasadena, the same ritual took place: a show opened at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in New York and an unknown man entered.(1) Philippe Bruno, more of a groupie than an art collector, had cut out all newspaper reviews of the show and pasted them in his copy of the show’s catalogue. If Duchamp could sign this please, maybe on the blank check that was attached with a paperclip to the page where the Tzanck Check was reproduced (facing L.H.O.O.Q.)…
http://silversteinfineart.com/artistbio/
The Rose Wing
Posted on May 2, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
The work of Disney Artist, Eyvind Earle, hung in the Rosamond Gallery in Carmel. Eyvind illustrated ‘Sleeping Beauty’.
It is time to promote my muse and the television series she will star in, called
‘The Rose Wing’.
It’s about a Dutch Artist and Model, who moves to Carmel California and opens a gallery and fashion boutique. Right away, Arion Roozmonde is puzzled by the looks her first visitors give her. They wander about, like ghosts.
“Are, you related to Christine? Who gave you permission to paint like her. My God, look at these clothes!”
“Who are you talking about?”
“Rosamond!”
“I am Roozemond!”
I am going to contact Clint Eastwood and see if he will produce ‘The Rose Wing’ and ‘Victoria Bond’. I see Lara living in Carmel – by the sea!
In 1974 Christine offered to teach me her style so I could be rich and famous, too. There was a mystery artist doing imitation Rosamonds. I can do Arion Roozemond’s paintings that will hang in the set-gallery, that will be famous. Tourists would come watch the shoot. They will want a Roozemond, who signs her work by her first name………..
Arion
I want a studio above the gallery. I want Euro Models to fly in. I will pick them up in Greyhaven. They will be chaperoned by French female foil masters. When someone wants a Arion, they ring a buzzer, and I send one down the dumbwaiter. In fact, I just wrote myself into the series.
I will be Orson Welles, like, running about the courtyard in my fancy bathrobe – guarded by my babes, who ask;
“When are your going to get around to painting us? You’re such a bull-shitter!”
Sondra Locke played Jennifer Spencer, an artist who lives in a house by the sea, in Sudden Impact. I would like Sondra to play an artist who owned a gallery next to Rosamond’s gallery. She fills Arion in, bit, by bit, with very cryptic and surreal language.
The Rose Wing is about the formation of a Guild, that never declares itself such. But, there is a mutual bond that they try to define so that their lives can be real. They agree they are Master Illusionists, who like to get a pay day, but, hey struggle with commercialization, and the idea they had sold their soul to the devil to get where they are. What had become of their spiritual nature they swore they would never allow to be compromised?
There is an antique upright in Roozemond’s gallery. It came with the lease. Though it was slightly out of tune, it brings Arion much solace – and she did not care to analyze, why? When Arion plays, her music floats through the artistic community, like a ghost. There are dark men in the art world. They come here to hide. Arion’s tune, always finds them.
One evening, while Arion was on a ladder hanging some track lighting, she felt a presence watching her. Looking down, she beheld a dapper gentleman with a white beard.
“I am wondering why your gallery has no name, no marquee.”
“That’s because I have not come up with one!”
“May I make a suggestion?”
“Be my guest!”
“How about…………The Rose Wing?”
Arion felt a tingling come up her legs and resonate at the top of her head!”
“That’s…………”
Arion looked down, and he was gone.
“……….perfect.”
Arion Roozemond worked late into the night accompanied by her large Franz Schubert collection that was the cause of her break-up with her husband, who tolerated Franz.
“He’s sooooooooooo tedious! He never gets to the point. Why the Gestapo adored him, is beyond me. Schubert was too civilized. Where’s the bravado?”
Arion felt her ears glowing the color of steel just taken out of the forge.
“Speaking of getting to the point. Where’s the baby you promised me. Have you ever gotten a woman pregnant?”
Arion left her husband’s dinner plate the way he left it – for a week! She could not believe he stormed out of the house – without a word! Looking at the mold grow on the Bush’s baked beans he loved so dearly, and, the deflated kernels on the con of cob his teeth tore into, Arion had enough! She rose up, grabbed the plate, stomped on the peddle of the garbage can, and let him go!
“Fuck you – too!”
Finally, her master[piece was………
“Finished!”
She rendered her Rose Wing on a metal sign that was made to hang on the ornate wrought iron arm that was bolted into the red brick next to the carriage light. She began with one rose then smaller roses grew from those red roses, that tapered down to become wings. She thought about putting words on her marquee, but, it spoke for itself!
“Tattoo! I’ve always wanted a tattoo! The Question is, where to put it?”
Then, another question came to her, that ruined her……Victory? It formed at the core of her being, her very soul. It almost reached her lips, but – she grabbed the ladder and rushed outside.
“I have to stop talking to myself.”
Knowing she was too wound up to go to sleep, Arion put on ‘Rosamunde Air’ and did her Tai Chi……..till the first light, appear.
She did not know she was being watched. When she went outside to breath in the morning air, she suppressed a scream when a white owl flew down from the tree, picked up a mouse in it beak, and flew back into the tree.
Is this a good omen, or bad? Arion did not move her lips, because she thought she saw movement in the shadow.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2018
Gestapo Owned Viennese Art
Posted on January 16, 2017
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