Friday, September 16, 2011

Peter Blegvad 60th Birthday Tribute: Two Observations










PeterBlegvad, Angel Trap (Blue),
Ink and watercolor impregnated with Suze (liquor made from blue gentian), 1977.




        I wanted to emulate country music’s way with outlandishmetaphors and narratives that don’t seem bookish or elitist. I met someone theother day who said he’d quoted my lyric “I gave myself to you intact / but yougave twisted wreckage back” in his divorce proceedings. Always glad to be ofservice.









Peter Blegvad, Lion — Imagined, Observed, Remembered. Ink and watercolor, 1984.


 
        The goal of all my work is essentially the same:demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention,and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragicexistence. Or something like that.









From Peter Blegvad Interview in The Believer (link)

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