tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post383341766105393976..comments2024-02-24T20:29:17.083-05:00Comments on MINDFUL PLEASURES: HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy by Philip PullmanBRIAN OARDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-4859677215891739572009-01-12T20:45:00.000-05:002009-01-12T20:45:00.000-05:00Julia,Thanks for the interesting comment. Your rem...Julia,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the interesting comment. Your remarks on the psychoanalytic interpretation of some elements in the series show me that it's an even richer imaginative creation than I had realized. Even though Pullman might have constructed the last part of book three a bit better, the good in these books heavily outweighs the bad. <BR/><BR/>I went to your website and checked out the paintings online. Good stuff. I was especially drawn to the marvelously haunting "Fences#3", "Doppelganger," "End of Authority" and "Interpretation of Dreams". Your "bare subjects" are uncanny; I'm sure I've met some of those people in my dreams... Thanks.BRIAN OARDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-38520414773481842162009-01-11T17:03:00.000-05:002009-01-11T17:03:00.000-05:00hi there, I stumbled upon this post- or should I s...hi there, I stumbled upon this post- or should I say, fell through a window?. I agree quite a lot with your assessment. I loved the first 2 books and most of the third and then did feel let down by the end. I'm not sure what would have been better as I didn't want it to end at all. I want to add that I am a psychoanalyst and a painter. As an analyst, there is quite a lot in this series that works as metaphor for experiences of trauma- severed child, spectres; as metaphor for analysis itself- the method Lyra uses for reading the alethiometer; etc. I was working on a series of abstracted portraits ('bare subjects') while I was reading the books, and Pullman and his characters made their presence known; for some examples, you can go to my website at www.juliaschwartzart.com. <BR/>I am also so pleased to have been directed to your website and your blog; love many of the same books. love to view paintings in the same way. recently was moved to tears while viewing at length a single Martin Kippenberger at MOCA in L.A. where I live, that opened a door (or a window?) to a new body of work. this is not yet on the website, still in process wet paint images on facebook page if you're interested... thanks, juliajulia schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09306907651957641425noreply@blogger.com