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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

woensdag 13 april 2011

LIEFDESBRIEF AAN DE KONING VAN DE NACHT; LOVE LETTER TO THE KING OF THE NIGHT



Complex contribution to the project "The king" by Anke van den Berg, Belgium.
First I painted a small envelope; then I wrote a new poem around that image; then I glued the small envelope on a large one and painted a new text around the small one.
I wrote the poem on the back of the envelope but in invisble ink (so it is a secret love letter to the king of the night). I plastified the envelope (the ink disappears when heating the envelope for plastification, traces remains of the writing). The typed poem is included in another small envelope taped on the back of the plastified large one.
In Dutch they say "moet er nog zand zijn?!

I reproduce the poem here below (oh yes, several of my American friends are learning Dutch now, maybe I should ask the Flemish government for a grant?!)
The poem contains references to The magic flute by W.A. Mozart.

DROEFZOET

** voor Anke **



De koning van de nacht
heeft zijn staplaarzen
aan de waterkant gezet.

Paradijsvogels vliegen verschrikt
op
en neer
in hun spiegelpaleis.
Zij imiteren de dogma's van de liefdesleer,
demonstreren het zeer gebrek
aan tederheid en lief gestuntel.

De koning van de nacht
gaat voorzichtig op zoek
naar de verloren mantel van licht.

Hij zingt niet
bevend een hoge C,
imiteert aldus droefzoet
zijn verboden verbannen
koningin.

Eén enkele traan zwelt op
in de hallen van de nacht,
een rode kersenpit in het krieken
van de naderende
dageraad.

Het onheil is geschied,
ontheiligd is zijn zoekende liefde.
De opkomende zon dreigt
dramatisch het neergaand sprookje
te vermoorden.



Guido Vermeulen
11-12 april 2011
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