Image  Galleria  after Poussin
 Christopher Truman 1997

The first of 4 sequenced web sites. Do note
Introductory Observation on the home page
for www.sundialzen.com., the last web site.
In between there are the two zenspacias......
www.zenspacia.co.uk and www.zenspacia2.co.uk

www.christophertrumanzenstructures.com


Cyber Gallery 39

                                             Linoprints

                                             abstract photography

                                             Absence line art 

                                             canary park

                                             monoravian preludes

                                             sculpture pages
                                             back story art photography                                      
                                                  
                              
OCTOSYLLABIC
OBSERVATIONS
after summer school
reading Auden in 2018

A Quip for Schama

What is civilization? 
An interior by Robert Adam

Potsdam Quip

The beauty of Sanssouci
to the horror of Verdun

Civilisation 2 The Raj

What came of civilisation?
The British railways, India

Juvenal at Macdonalds

Overheated, overlit, size
gargantuan, the junk feeder

Hunger Games Province 7

The kingdom of the overboned
too big for a doorway or car

Darker Wood Dutch

The coup counter-revolution
made use of their mahogany

The German Revolution

Nazis torching Old Germany
flared socialism for der Volk

Flaming June

He extended the sunlit day
by an upper lawn in the hills        

Sci-fi Me2

Raw Me2 girly gangs flex time
hand-pleasuring to porn online

Death in China

Surveillance-locked society
the cancering in red China

Shimla to Whitehall

Elephants march a luncheon gong.
A figure wires for promotion

British Pacific Fleet

A shoal of drone submarines run
from our frigate off Singapore

The Smouldering

Two Governments could fall today.
The centres died. Tribal fire

Instagram Instagirl

Is the online wonder girl
alien, in her oval self?

Apocalypse Redux

Cannibalism in Neasden;
in Wood Green; old London burning

The Last Can

Only one can of baked beans left
with a mob charging the front door
               
Weil a Samuel Beckett

Attente De Dieu le premier
et En Attendant Godot apres

Left-bank Jean-Paul Sartre 

Existentialist, Communist;
'Les Chemins de la Liberte

'Sadistisch' Kitsch Bitch

Does the frenzied whip Gauleiter
take a twisted garter to bed ?

Chinese Whisper Terror

Incite a climate of touching
paranoia, to rule through fear

At The Basil Street Hotel 

They lived on peach avocado:
drank imperial bravado

In A Fallen Era

The line garden ran to nettle
and ivy leafing a statue

On Burning Marl

Drawn between heat and pavement
a sliver of soul was hell-bent

Project Coup TB Quote

'I want to destroy every
last shred of Conservatism'

In West Germany: 1932 

In the 'red' Ruhr open trucks rolled
heaving with armed red militia

Dispatcher Nikita

In the state chute dystopia
underground cobra rotunda

Resurrection Battle

AI, big data, the dictator
contra the spirit, the wafer

The Sun King Courtesan

Rolled marbles in the mirror hall
to enter a worn mosaic

Terminal August Couplet

Sadly, I did not reach the beach
to lie with Lady Caroline...

Beating The Miners' Strike: MT

Colonel Guy Long 'warehoused Polish
coal near Antwerp' per pro Nato

London Riot Dystopia

A machine-gun nest at the end
of a street, for law and order

Opposite St. Botolph's Church

An old all-grey unmarked Sea King
hung above a field of cattle

Byzantium

The triumphal gong sounding
on lit marble, is the Emperor

First Darkest Hour

In 410 A.D. our Roman
legions withdrew, to man The Rhine

Roman Law: The Codex

From Justinian in Byzantium
to Bologna, and Africa

German Invaders

Our Saxons loved die grene, die Walde
und die timbered haus; no Villa

Neo-Stalinist State

The rarest move fraught with danger
and they can almost hear you breathe

From A Satire By Juvenal

The Temple colonnades windy
but full of ladies of the night

Where is Agent Nikita?

She of the black leather jeans
and jacket, intent and blonde

Aimless In Croydon

Rounding away at the Golf Club
many a ball went out of sight

Euston Station Rebuild

A Chancellor flew to Peking
to be fed a lot of stuffed duck

Italian Virgin Mary

Taught the blue erotic contour
of a woman, holy mother!

Zabriskie Point

The free-loving counter-culture
against Vietnam, and Mad Men

Zabriskie Point 2

Flesh hammed against flesh, in the sand
her bronzed lithe beauty afire

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Catholic Virgin Rapture

Sinewy tongue rounding his tongue,
her nipples erect in muslin

Failed Journey

She invited me to summer
at her condo in Biarritz

A Mortemart

Languor became her, and lazy
to a sly teasing; a fervour

Sa Galerie

Athenais de Mortemart, Mar-
quise de Montespan a Clagny

   all written by Christopher Truman
 sur son terracotta plateau chaque jour 
  with more on www.sundialzen.com

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We are all closer
to Virgil and Horace
and his Odes than we are to the post-
literate snowflake
strangely postmodern and literal

Horace was born in B.C. 65 in Venusia,
a small town
in the Hellenised south-eastern
region of Italy. A villa quote:

Mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum
     Sera moretur

Cease your efforts, to find
where the last rose lingers

(The White House was founded in Rome
because Palladio had inspired Monticello)

Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum
And seek for truth in the garden of Academus

Non omnis moriar
                             I shall not die           

             Ut pictura poesis                      

by Horace: who loved his Falernian 
villa wine and the poetry of Sappho
as black-leathered Nikita
may have often done,
unzipping
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                          

Christopher Truman has been evolving line art prints drawn using rotring rapidograph pens and black ink on Lana Mills cartridge paper since 1997.
Site images have been scanned from the off-white cartridge paper originals. They can be printed on flecked white oriental parchment. A group may use papers ranging from soft sepia to a sheer white.

His work may principally be seen as creating Zen narratives, loci or aids for meditation, a metaphysical 'storyboard' even. Finding a zen at Selinunte, Cathay can venn the neo-Platonic. In a group of prints, he mediates certain motifs in Vermeer; with another, creates a parallel parallel world to explore. A virtual infinity is quested.

Each group of six to nine prints as panels may be 'read' left to right, or, wall mounted, to the centre; or right-left. Rack-mounted, the running order may vary.


Christopher Truman started his groups of prints with experimental Image Text arrays. The work now lives much in counterpoint to his poetry, reflective of many journeys.

     Staying on for a third year,
canary squares of wild marble
coming together, a butterfly,
the mimosa trembling

an even paler guest, in love
with a paradigm, japonica
returning in awe a ninth time
bent to clip a fresh
     honeysuckle cigarette. 

                                                           from  Wild Marble I  

Christopher Truman

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