Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: Baudelaire

A distraught, obsessive-compulsive parent--armed with kitchen cardboard, gesso, construction paper, markers and a pile of old Nylon magazines--makes a note for the kidnappers. It's a note for us, as artists, to heed: instead of holding the child captive within, let the girl go! Charles Baudelaire put it this way: "Genius is childhood recovered at will, a childhood gifted now, for self-expression, with the tools of adulthood." ( Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils... )

To the kidnappers: a desperate plea for us, as artists, to release the inner child...bring the boy out! This is not psychobabble. Charles Baudelaire put it this way: "Genius is childhood recovered at will, a childhood gifted now, for self-expression, with the tools of adulthood." ( Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils... )

Again, inspired by the file-folder mail art of Robes-Pierre . Sources: --dark pink architectural feature from a photo by Jeffrey Becom --paper w/ Asian characters from Indus Valley site ( Archaeology ) --white Grecian head from a magazine, source unknown --rubber stamp by Stamp Francisco --typewriters paper from Rossi --"ceci n'est pas un pipe" by Magritte Lines coming out of white head: --"I first met Dean not long after...": opening of Kerouac's On the Road --"Ohne Finsternis kein Licht": Without darkness there is no light (German proverb) --"luxe, calme et volupté": luxury, peace and pleasure (from Baudelaire's "Invitation au voyage") --"Let us go then, you and I": opening of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"