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VISIONARY REVUE PARIS - SPRING 2003

SPRING MORNING THE LONESOME LIFE

1957 1961

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NOSTALGIA FOR LEMURIA

1961

Which is to say, Johfra became more obsessed

From these sketchbooks, the drummels then
began to invade his paintings. During Johfra’s life
with Diana, these humorous and bizarre
reconfigurations of human anatomy became the
dominant theme. The organic growths of his earlier
interior landscapes had undergone a
transformation. While the coralline textures and
fungus growths moved into the background of his
painting, the drummels now advanced into the
foreground.
with organic growth as manifest in human and
animal forms, rather than the earlier plant and
mineral kinds. The substance of his imagination had
now acquired eyes to see, hands to grasp, and
mouths to gape, kiss, or devour.
However, it should be stressed that the pure
‘Mindstuff Landscapes’ also persisted during this
time. Though the drummel was the major evolution
in subject matter, his interior landscapes also
showed a slow but remarkable advance in the
rendering of mineral and vegetal forms - here
appearing like petrified wood, there like frozen ice,
or elsewhere as liquid crystal.

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