CygnusX

Welcome to CygnusX: a continuing point of reference for current works, for archive items and projects; for random incongruities and improbable juxtapositions...

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Open Moment

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Over by the door shell-suited layabouts Catcalled the swanky clientele; Strange signals from flirty fashionistas In far out drag, voyeuris...

Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Daughter of Night

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This is Nemesis Daughter of Nyx (Night) another early work from the CygnusX Archive. The drawing dates from 1966 and is clearly inspired b...

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Vespula Dreamng

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Here is a recent work. Perhaps it is an illustration for a very Decadent poem... Do you have a mystic sister? Illustration: Vespula Dreamin...

Saturday, 28 October 2023

This Is Inner Space

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...the concept of Tau... the world of inter-atom... It was an area of non-logic which only grudgingly conceded a place to man and his fall...

Friday, 20 October 2023

From The Archive

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There are a few pencil sketches from 1966 in the archive. This rough drawing of The Temptation of St Anthony is probably the earliest. No d...

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AC: London, United Kingdom; For AC poetry is an infinite psychonautical trip; an exploration of the bizarre and the grotesque – yet he describes his work as Realistic. 'Poetry’, he says, ‘is radar’or maybe 'an accident waiting to happen'. Influenced by the dark-side of Romanticism, Decadence and Aestheticism, AC may endorse the iconoclasm of Dada, the 'absolute non-conformism' of Surrealism, the Angst of Existentialism, and the immediacy of Pop. But all these are points of departure, none a destination – we live in a world of tabloid impressionism, open realism and amplified hyper-culture; such is the heroism of our modern life, our Subtopian Materialism. Born in 1949 near Hampton Court, in what was then the Urban District of Twickenham (Middlesex), A C lived in South London until 1963 when he moved to Essex and co-founded the Neo-Surrealist Convulsionist Group in 1966. He moved back to London in 1973. His drawings, collages, reviews, essays, translations, poetry and stories have appeared in numerous small press magazines in the UK and abroad. The poem sequence Space Opera was made into a digital video (by Michelle Martin/OS2) and shown at the onedotzero3 Festival, at the ICA, London, in May 1999.

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