semi detached is a photograph taken in Alfred Unger’s apartment, Cologne, Germany, circa 1989. The motif is of a bookshelf in the artist’s grandfather’s library: a golden Buddha statuette and the 2 Stars of David that he and his wife were forced to wear in Nazi Germany are propped up against books on art, literature, the theatre of pre and post war Germany and the history of Israel.

xxxxxxxxxx“And what of unconscious meanings, which are by definition not deliberately xxxxxxxxxxintended? ‘I really do think with my pen’, Wittgenstein observes, ‘because my xxxxxxxxxxhead often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.’”

xxxxxxxxxxLudwig Wittgenstein, “Culture and Value”, Chicago 1984, 17e, quoted on p.47, of xxxxxxxxxx“The Meaning of Life”, Terry Eagleton, Oxford University Press, 2007,
xxxxxxxxxxISBN 978-0-19-953217-9

Tanya Ury commenced writing the bi-lingual half dimensional poems late 2009. This collection of one-liners was continued in 2010, during the time of discovery and treatment for Ury’s breast cancer, when she postponed all other projects.

xxxxxxxxxx“Certain slips of the tongue in the course of a phrase give us sudden insight xxxxxxxxxxinto ourselves by substituting one word for another, and the unwelcome word is a xxxxxxxxxxmeans whereby poetry escapes and perfumes the phrase. These words are a danger xxxxxxxxxxto the practical understanding of discourse. In like manner, certain acts. xxxxxxxxxxFaults sometimes – they are deeds – produce poetry. Though beautiful, these xxxxxxxxxxdeeds are none the less a danger.”

xxxxxxxxxxP.42 “Miracle of the Rose”, Jean Genet 1951, Penguin Books 1971,
xxxxxxxxxxISBN 0-14-018054-0