Time flows, and the cats have grown a little older. The Balse newsletter, issue number fifty.
So many expressions, encounters, and words. The green that lies ahead; the mist left behind.
Have I grown, even a little?
Let us hasten forward. Along this river. Following the animal paths. Relying on a faint scent.
Carried on the wind, I hear the sound of drums.
floor, mattress, in Venezia
月日が流れ猫たちは少し歳をとった。Balseニュースレター、５０回目。
多くの表現、出会い、言葉。先にある緑、後に残る霧。
俺は少し成長しただろうか。
先を急ごう。
この川を沿って。獣道をたどって。微かな匂いを頼りに。
風に乗って太鼓の音が聞こえる。
アカデミアの路地を入ってしばらく歩くと昔ながらの水道があり、昼間その上に素敵な若いカップルが寄り添う。彼らは物珍しそうに僕を見る。彼らを写真に収めることはもうできない。時が過ぎるということは。そういうことであり。成すということはそういうことである。
Turning down an alleyway from Accademia, after walking a short while, there is an old-fashioned water fountain. In the afternoon sun, a beautiful young couple leans close together above it. They look at me with a curious wonder.
I can no longer take their photograph.
That is what it means for time to pass. That is exactly what it means. And to achieve something—to truly create—is exactly that.
Talk To Me , because I think you are Betraying Your Own Potential.
I pulled out the Morandi book, imagining a life depicting the most mundane—which is where the beauty lies.
the ghost that is Wagner in Venice; the flickering light reflection from the water.
Or it was the filament? The clock sounds Eleven
A Percussive sound from Rare material
Send all forms of life Ascending.
Twisted yes, - but It's You, It’s me
I stutter when I speak of love and death
we secretly wish we can be - Iyo no Hito 異様の人— The Singular Outcast
You feel it too? the Lacuna
The Swamp
No, I feel that Joy Has A Habit Of Returning
No, it’s Not Just a Cultural Decline
But, I may call it loss of Innocence
My mind wonders away to the Farmhouse in France
Your Tear eyed face, visual purple - questioning why, negotiating with the past (Artist Peter Doig: “I like the singleness of being a painter.”)
We press Control + Enter, reconstructing the Pattern of Matter, - a state where Technology no matter no more
Words beyond:
Matteuccia - Beyond botany, the name is also associated with Matteuccia de Francesco (died 1428), an alleged Italian nun and "witch" from Ripabianca. She was tried in 1428 for sorcery in one of Europe's earliest documented witch trials, where she famously confessed to flying on the back of a demon. [1] WIKI
Mashrub - Mashrub (مشروب), also commonly spelled Mashroob, is a noun of Arabic origin that translates to "drink" or "beverage". It is widely used across Arabic, Urdu, and Persian to describe any liquid intended for drinking. [1, 2, 3] Poetic Symbolism: In classical Urdu and Arabic poetry, the word often symbolizes the intoxication of love, spiritual ecstasy, or the fleeting, sweet joys of life. [1] WIKI
DJ sets:
HAAi UK Techno, Breaks & Dubstep DJ Set Live From DJ Mag
Hyperpop & Dubstep mix in an NYC Nail Shop | Tiffany Day PAN!C ROOM
till next time.
Charles A. Balse
Matthew Wong Interiors
Words of Wisdom
If there's any single force behind the wild range of Warhol's art, it is his hatred of the already done.
Philip Pearlstein remembered that, more than anyone else in their clique, the young Warhol believed "that you should always try to find something new." This idea, so central to Warhol's entire career, wasn't something he was born with; we can track him learning it as a student aesthete in Pittsburgh. A teacher of his at Tech is supposed to have laid down the law to him: "You have got to do things the way you want them, and be damned with what I think, be damned with what anybody else around you thinks. Go do it the way you see it, to please yourself, or you'll never amount to anything."
Warhol, lake Gopnik, page 65
The completeness of nature displays itself to another sense in a similar way. Let the eye be closed, let the sense of hearing be excited, and from the lightest breath to the wildest din, from the simplest sound to the highest harmony, from the most vehement and impassioned cry to the gentlest word of reason, still it is Nature that speaks and manifests her presence, her power, her pervading life and the vastness of her relations; so that a blind man to whom the infinite visible is denied, can still comprehend an infinite vitality by means of another organ.
And thus as we descend the scale of being, Nature speaks to other senses—to known, mis-understood, and unknown senses: so speaks she with herself and to us in a thousand modes. To the attentive observer she is nowhere dead nor silent; she has even a secret agent in inflexible matter, in a metal, the smallest portions of which tell us what is passing in the entire mass. However manifold, complicated, and unintelligible this language may often seem to us, yet its elements remain ever the same.
Theory of Colours, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Preface
Saul gave the impression of being friendly, nonthreatening, almost cuddly, which probably accounts for his ability to quickly establish a rapport with the subjects he photographed. When a staff member at the Strand Book Store in New York introduced Saul to the influential documentary photographer Helen Levitt, having spotted them thumbing through art books, Levitt said to him,
"You look familiar,
" and Saul replied, "I am."
In private, however, Saul could be reflective and a touch melancholy, especially when talking about his childhood. All his life he wrestled with the expectations that his father, a rabbi and pre-eminent scholar, had for him. It was taken for granted that Saul would carry on the great Leiter rabbinical lineage. That assumption was ruptured when he had an exhibition of thirty-five watercolors and drawings at the Arts and Crafts Center in Pittsburgh in August 1945, which was reported in the Jewish Criterion.
"My father cried. He was ashamed. He said to me,
'Now everyone will know."
"What did your father mean by Now everyone will know'?" I asked.
"What you are."
"And what is that?"
"A very bad thing, an artist."
Saul's unwillingness to follow in his father's footsteps may have propelled him to become the artist that he became. "I didn't want to do what was chosen for me, he said. "That I knew. What I was going to do I didn't know. I still don't know. Do I know what I've done?" He viewed his life as an unsolved puzzle, and this made him especially attuned to the beauty, mystery, and
unknownness of the world.
Saul Leiter, The Hidden World of Saul Leiter, Adam Harrison
Tile In the Masons' language, to tile or cover the Temple is to protect it from 'rain-damage' caused by the intrusion of the uninitiated and of external influences. Thus one of the Outer Guards is the Tyler who only admits the candidate after he has answered questions suited to his grade. Unless it is "tiled" or covered, the Temple will let in the rain and hence, in French Masonry, the words 'It's raining' mean that there are uninitiated intruders in the Lodge meeting (BOUM).
Tiles symbolize the protection of a secret, and in their nocturnal aspect utter indifference to spiritual influences and the powers of self-development, a regression into what has been acquired and fixed. Thereupon the secret becomes corrupted and void of meaning.
Dictionary of SYMBOLS, ‘tile’
Main Studies
Lauren Quin Eyelets of Alkaline
Nik Gelormino “Well”
Christina Quarles The Ground Glows Black
Devin B. Johnson: Crossing
FARLEY AGUILAR Into The Reflection
Gallery Artists Show
GROUP SHOW: 7 ARTISTS
Landscape Reimagined
Reinhard Pods: Bilder 1979-2024
Sol LeWitt: Open Structure
KANJI WAKAE ” Questioning through Painting ” 若江漢字 絵画という問い ー
Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2024-2026 Exhibition “Wetland”
Naofumi Maruyama, Beginning
Goro Kakei “Human Issues”
Mozart's Requiem
Kohei Nawa Photon Camp
Sarah Martin-Nuss
Van Hanos Psychic Death
Constanza Schaffner “Pasolini's Garden”
CHARLES RAY Fallen Horse (2025)
Lakich Studio of Neon Art DTLA
MICHELLE BLADE It's About Time
CORINNA GOSMARO The Whole Adrift
Melike Kara Everything Knows
June Canedo de Souza: All top teeth knocked out at once
Theory of Colours, Goethe
Warhol - If there's any single force behind the wild range of Warhol's art, it is his hatred of the already done.
Hilary Pecis Love Letters
Young British Artists (YBAs)
Aron Demetz Only Counting the Winters
"IMAGINATION," a group exhibition featuring five artists active both in Japan and internationally
Cerith Wyn Evans
JUDD ｜ Marfa
Zadok Ben-David - Second Nature -
ART IN THE PARK : SHUN SUDO "HANA-MI"
Flying Organs yang02
掛井五郎 「人間の問題」
武内雄大「Blinking Bodies」
Nanae Mitobe 水戸部 七絵 “SUNDAY MARKET”
Reika Takebayashi “A petal falling”
Giangiacomo Rossetti. The Dead
LYDIA OURAHMANE May 5 Works
Liu Xiaodong: Host
Helter Skelter Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince
Matthew Wong Interiors
COMING UP
Francois Ghebaly
Antone Könst
Counterpoint
June 6 – July 18, 2026
Keith Tyson
Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles
California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version)
Mika Tajima
37 Dimensions
Jun 27 – Aug 15, 2026
PACE
Urs Fischer: YES and LA DUST
June 19–August 8, 2026
JEFFREY DEITCH
RARE EARTH
SHANNON CARTIER LUCY
Bucket of Birds
JUNE 6 - JULY 11, 2026
Night Gallery
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
THE BROAD
Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions
APPENDIX:
Trailer 1 | Giorgio Morandi's Dust (Giorgio Morandi documentary)
TEASER: The End Of Evangelion 2026
【 OP風MAD 】機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ キルケーの魔女 × 『 CIRCE 』 SennaRin Hiroyuki Sawano / The Witch of Circe
Wagner in Venice - full documentary
Italian artist Lulù Nuti: "When I study the material, it gives me a vision." Louisiana Channel - not being truthful to the matter
Flowers, Death, & Desire of Japanese GIRLY Photography Developing Tank
【永遠の青春名作 銀河鉄道999】子供の頃はわからなかった。 999最後の別れが今、万感になる理由
Doors of Bresson | by Kogonada
HAAi UK Techno, Breaks & Dubstep DJ Set Live From DJ Mag
HAAi, Jon Hopkins - Baby, We’re Ascending
Fred again.., KETTAMA & Shady Nasty - HARDSTYLE 2 (Lou Nour Remix)
Fcukers - 'if you wanna party, come over to my house' (Official Video)
kent watari - nervefield flickering
Ciel & Mathis Ruffing - Hot Squid (Official Video)
Ciel & Mathis Ruffing - Late Summer
Swamp (Ricardo Villalobos Version)
Between Thoughts Shinichi Atobe
Hyperpop & Dubstep mix in an NYC Nail Shop | Tiffany Day PAN!C ROOM
Dries Van Noten – Awaiting Venice Biennale 2026 My Art Guides
The Life and Art of Wassily Kandinsky: Art History Explained
Lone - Home (feat. Merry Lamb Lamb)
Lone - Hyperphantasia Theatrical Trailer
Kaija Saariaho Innocence - Festival d'Aix en Provence
Corsica Studios: Farewell to one of London's best clubs Resident Advisor
Marc Glimcher on Maysha Mohamedi's New Works Pace Gallery
On Betraying Your Own Potential | a perspective from Sartre Zoë Winter
Not Just a Cultural Decline Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry
How I made AFTERTHEPARTY with @itslucaslime Eden FM and Cursus Audio
It's You (feat. Violet Grace) Eden FM
Lone - Sickly, Sweetly, Summer Movie
I stutter when I speak of love and death Charbel Haber
Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin: ITERAE (2026)
Joy Has A Habit Of Returning Chewlie
Loraine James - Detached From The Rest of You (Full Album)
Conrad Van Orton - Plaintive Drift [RRR016]
Dynamic Forces - MS#4 [RRR016]
Artist Peter Doig: “I like the singleness of being a painter.” - questioning why, music of the future, now is the best time for music and painting, negotiating with the past
Gramm - Personal Rock (Full Album)
Photographer Paul Graham invited us into his New York storage
Inside a Furniture Designer's Remote Farmhouse in France
言葉が通じない場所で、“その人”を見つめ続けた結果⎜アーティスト・山元彩香【MEET YOUR ARTISTS】
