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/