NUCCIO MULA
International Art Critic
“YOU QUESTIONED AND YOU DIDN'T COME”
LIKE A CANDLE WHICH, IN ORDER TO LIGHT UP THE OUTSIDE, AT THE SAME TIME EXTINGUISHES ITS OWN INSIDE WITH A MERCY, FATAL, UNSTOPPABLE AWARENESS, THE SHORT BUT VERY INTENSE EXISTENCE OF MICHELE CEA CONTINUES, EVEN AFTER THE APPARENT BITE OF DETACHMENT, TO IRRADIATE WITH SPLENDORS AND SHADOWS THE HERE OF THOSE WHO REMAINED BEFORE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE AFTER FOR A “CORREPONDENCE OF LOVING FEELINGS” (AND OF MEMORIES, AND OF REGRETS, AND OF FINDS) LOVINGLY REPATTERNED IN THE SUPERSIGN OF “GOING BACK WITH THE HEART” (THIS IS THE ETYM, VERY BITTER AND SUBLIME, OF “MEMORY”) ON THE ROSARY CONFIGURING A “WAY CRUCIS” OF PUNCHING SECULARITY IN THE RE-EMERGING OF STATIONS AND SIGNS. RETROPRESENCES OF QUESTIONS, WORRIES, AND HONOR GATHER TO TARGET THE DENSE WARP OF THE CANVASES AND THE ILLUSORY IMPENETRABILITIES OF SURFACES NEVER INTENDED FOR SUPERFICIAL DECORATIVENESS, TO ASSEMBLE INSTEAD, EVEN IN THE CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES EXILED ONLY TO SERVANTS-INSTRUMENTS, WHISPERS AND SHOUTS OF BERGMANIAN MEMORY, INVOCATIONS AND EVOCATIONS, EMPLOYMENTS AND DUELS, SIGHS OF SURRENDER AND STROMBS OF COUNTERATTACK, ILLUSIONS AND YEARS. THE PERCEPTIVE AND VISUAL TRINITY / TRIMURTI OF THE BEFORE, THE INSIDE AND THE BEYOND THEN COMES TO APPEAR ON THE PARAMETERS OF AN INEXHAUSTIBLE AND UNTOUCHABLE PROCESS OF MONITORING AND SCANNING TO IDENTIFY AND BEYOND THE FRUSTRATING LIMITATIONS OF EVERY USUAL, VERY BANAL “DISTINCTION” BETWEEN THE “FRONT” AND THE “BACK”, BETWEEN THE ABOVE AND THE BELOW, TO ARRIVE, INSTEAD, AT A TOTAL CIRCULARITY OF EXPRESSION AND CREATING WITHOUT VALLEYS AND LIMITS. CONVERGENCES OF MULTITUDES GIVE, AGAIN, TO VOICES AND SILENCES THE UNIQUENESS OF A SHARED FEELING BUT ANYTHING BUT FAR FROM MASSIFIED AND STANDARDIZED, SINCE, INSTEAD, THERE IS A CLEAR SOURCE OF CONGENIALITY IN THE HARMONY / SYMPHONY OF AN EMINENTLY PIRANDELLIAN "FINDING" TO CHALLENGE, IN THE NAME OF BEING, EVERY TYRANNY OF DISGUISED FEASINESS. EVANGELIARS OF THE UNINITIATED AND THE UNFINISHED IMPETRATE ILLUMINATION FROM THE EYE OF KARMA HIDDEN BETWEEN THE NON-FULL AND THE NON-EMPTY TO BALANCE ANGUISHES, HARMONIZE DEUTEROSCOPIECES, SOOZE AFFLICTIONS. MAZES OF TRAPS ARE UNMASKED TO PHYSICAL VISION TO POINT OUT/ALERT OF STRANGULATION PLOT; SHADOWS SCENARIOS EXPAND IN CRUEL DILATIONS TO DARK ENIGMAS AND PROPHETS TO RESIDUAL ATOLLS OF LIGHT; ILLUSORY COMPOSITIONS ARE EXPOSED BY SCARS AND SUTURES RE-EMERGING, MERCYFULLY, FROM BANDAGES OF HYPOCRISY; BLOOD OF MARTYRDOM GUSHES IN GRAFFITI FROM THE SHAFTS OF THAT TORTURE WHICH, “AB IMMEMORABILITI”, SUBMAILS AND DISCARDS EVERY EXISTENCE PREDESTINED TO PILGRIM ONLY ON PATHWAYS PAVED WITH NAILS, TO HISTORIZE, LIKE A BLOURISM “TSUNAMI” OF SACRIFICIAL TATTOOS, THE FACE, THE BODY, THE HEART, THE SOUL, THE INTELLECT OF ANYONE WHO DARES TO CLAIM, YEARNING AND PAINTING, ANY RIGHT TO A JOY OF LIFE THAT IS NEVER EVER OVERWHELMED BY THE DAMNATION OF SURVIVING, OFFERING HIMSELF TO PAY EVERY PRICE AND EVERY CHARGE. SKELETONS OF POWER, FINALLY, OFFER THEMSELVES TO THE ETERNALLY TEARED AND INCREDULOUS GLANCES OF THOSE WHO REMAIN, TO DISDANGEROUSLY DENY, AND IN THE ARCANA SILENCE OF A HEROIC “NOLI ME TANGERE”, WEAKNESSES AND COWARDS DISCONFESSED BY THE CONTEMPTING FLAKING OF MIRAGES, FAKE SCENARIOS, OVERLAPSES OF SCOURGED BUT UNTAMED EPIDERMIS. AND IN ALL THIS ULCERED UNIVERSE, EVEN THE ORACLE, MOST CLEAR, TREMENDOUS IRONY OF THE PROMISE OF AN “I'LL BE BACK SOON” WHICH WAS IRREVERSIBLY NOT KEEPED, BECOMES, DESPITE EVERYTHING, THE SUPREME ICON OF COHERENCE IN ASSEMBLING, IN A MOCKING FAREWELL, WHAT MICHELE ALWAYS SEEKED BUT NEVER FOUND: “QUAESIVI ET NON INVENI”.
REFLECTIONS
STINGING METEORS STRIKING THROUGH THE SKIES OF ANGUISH , SHATTERING SKIES OF FALSEHOOD
Dense tears flow from stocks and gallows, spreading invocations.
EVERYTHING TAKES PLACE IN THE STORMS THAT ATTACK PURITY
THE BEFORE AND THE HIDDEN SILENTLY TRANSMUT IN THE EMBRACE OF THE BEYOND
GATHERINGS OF PALPITS RESURRECTION ABSENCES AMONG WHISPERS AND SILENCES
THE WOUND OF BREATH BLEEDS HEAVILY
LONG IS THE ROAD OF COMPOUNDS JUMPING TOWARDS THE DARKNESS
TERRIBLE IS THE WORRY THAT ATTACKS CERTAINTIES
SHADOW PATHS SLAUGHTER THE LIGHT
WHILE FATE SPREADS COBWEBS
AND THE NAILS YOU CARESS GIVE STIGMATA
WHILE THE VEILERS GIVE IN TO TORMENT
WHAT IS HIDDEN BY THE DECEPTION OF EXISTENCE?
WHY DIG IF EVEN THE BEYOND IS DELUSION-LIKE?
WITH LIVING FLESH YOU HAVE TRACED THE PATH ON YOURSELF
FOR A JOURNEY OF RIDDLES AND PROPHETS TO SEEK AND FIND YOU
ARCANE CARTOGRAPHIES POINT OUT ROUTES
UNDER THE NETWORK OF LYING
AND A WAY OF THE CROSS SURRENDERS TO NO RETURN
Nuccio Mula for Michele Cea
June 13, 2016