Various Materials, 2021.

Chance! Meeting: GOD --- FOUNTAIN --- PARAPLUICE --- Your Softslapfilthy Lid I Kiss R. Mutt Mutt, R. Dushit's La Mère

Annotations:

GOD: “God”, sculpture by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Schamberg, 1917. For a long time "God" was attributed to Schamberg only, who made a photograph of the sculpture.

FOUNTAIN: “Fountain”, attributed to Marcel Duchamp, 1917. Chances are, that it should be attributed to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. "One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.", Duchamp wrote to his sister in 1917.

PARAPLUICE: Poem + Gouache and ink painting by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: “Forgotten — like this parapluice Am I by you— Faithless Bernice!”, 1923-24.

Chance Meeting: “(...) chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.”, a sentence from the Comte de Lautréamont’s “Les Chants de Maldoror” (“The Songs of Maldoror”), 1868-69; often referenced by André Breton as an example of Surrealist thinking.

Dushit:

“Graveyard Surrounding Nunnery

When I was Young — foolish — I loved Marcel Dushit He behaved mulish — (A quit.) Whereupon in haste Redtopped Robert came — He was chaste — (Shame!) I up — vamps fellow — Carlos — some husky guy — He turned yellow — (Fi!) I go to bed — saint — Corpse — angel — nun — It ain’t (Fun).” Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, ca. 1921.