Art: Analyses cela, huile sur lin by Boré Ivanoff
The Radioactive Wonder Boy
Are you happy? I’m happ-
ening in two spaces at once
Jump when they call you
Call you, it’s all you’ve got
A worn-down robe and another shot
It’s hot
In the lights of vivisection
The inflection is natural, but
It’s unnatural to be this way
And say
What you’re thinking
You’re thinking
Your thinking
A heat-seeking bomb set to stun
They’re stunned
To see your face
Unhinged, eyes blank, thank you for showing me
I see fever
I write sick
The pit broke crust
On loosening teeth
I’m underneath
Here
Just here
Adjust here, 30 degrees
And a mound of bees
See, it’s fracture
It’s fallen
It’s future
A shooter
Unmasked, life drawn
This one is for you
For you, for
Brittle-nosed doctors
Biting back alchemy
Sit next to me
Tuesdays, they bring jello
Thursdays, they bring bile
Just smile
Act like you’ve been here before
Before isn’t memory, but erasure
But I’m not sure
I do know this
If you’re biting on the bullet
Best not miss
Don’t miss
Don’t miss
About the author:
Jake Bailey is a schiZotypal experientialist with work in The American Journal of Poetry, Diode, Palette Poetry, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. Jake received his MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles and lives in Illinois with his fiancée and their three dogs. Find him on Twitter (@SaintJakeowitz) and at saintjakeowitz.wordpress.com.
In the artist’s words:
Eastern European- born, contemporary, protean artist, based in Paris since 2001. Since 2012 he paints exclusively Paris. Parisian views, ‘jamais vu’ motives are his special feature, blurring the line between abstraction and realism. For Boré Paris it’s the kind of place that offers the right combination of inspiration and pain and suffering to keep him stimulated and painting. Independent and self-confident, with a remarkable ability to surprise and intrigue the viewer … he prefers the enigmatic, the unconventional, and the unexpected. His work is precise, yet it teeters on the threshold of delirium and chaos. He brings outrageous levels, of pictorial realization to his work. His compositions are a sophisticated exercise in the manipulation of form, keyed-up color, density, illusionism, brushwork, and compression. The interior and the exterior merge to produce a single image whose complexities are almost impossible to untangle. The result is which the abstract nearly trumps the real. Boré wants to see how far he can push reality to the other side where the “real” is still recognizable, but becoming totally abstract, building that tension until they are just one and the same.
Boré Ivanoff (BG-FR) https://boretzart.wordpress.com/