"Wake Up from Yesterday: The Video Diary of Patti Smith" is black leather, and its size, thickness, and texture in the hand are a bit like a Bible. Open it, and there is a photo on each page, mainly black and white, with occasional color. Each photo is accompanied by a date and text.
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Black leather cover, the texture of holding it is like a Bible
From the first day of January to the last day of December, from the seaside to a person The back view of the white-haired woman waving to the camera with the audience at the performance. This is Patti Smith's year.
These photos are from her instagram. Photos on instagram come from polaroid cameras, archives and mobile phones. Patti Smith has a big heart. This heart searches in the long river of time, especially loves the dead and the people who write (the two are usually combined into one - the dead writer), and is full of deep affection for home and family, daily objects and the scenery on the road.
During the epidemic, Patti Smith completed this image collection by playing games with time in her room. Like playing cards, she rearranges and combines the lucky pieces of time into a fictional year. During this year, time seems to flow normally. Dates and footnotes capture it and prevent it from deforming and slipping away. The dimensions are infinite.
Inside page of "Wake Up from Yesterday: Patti Smith's Photo Diary"
Patti Smith is extremely interested in people's resting places on earth and in eternity. She visited many graves, touched the wings of the angels who guard the tombs, and tried to make the headstones speak. She took pictures of many single beds, including her own and those of long-dead people. The folds of the bed and the surrounding light and shadow, the vine-covered tombstones and the silent guardian statues are a more approachable face of death (sometimes not necessarily, Frida Kahlo had a skeleton hanging above her bed). Patty wore old boots, walked to those places, stared at them carefully, and recorded them with her camera.
There is no burden in talking to Patti Smith like this. As readers, we don’t have to think of her music, poetry, and her fiery years. She is no longer a rock star, poet, and writer living in the fog of the past. She is now reduced to a person, an eye, and a pen.
Patty herself probably feels most comfortable this way. There are pages of her pictures made up of just these things—camera, coffee mug, glasses, paper and pen filled with writing, her hands.
Inside page of "Awakening from Yesterday: Patti Smith's Photo Diary"
"Nothing can match the atmosphere created by old Polaroid film. Except perhaps a poem, a musical phrase, or a mist-shrouded forest."
In March 2018, Patty debuted on Instagram at the suggestion of her daughter Jesse. "I used my own hands as an image to first explore the virtual world." Since then, these hands have appeared in many images. Unlike her lanky figure, Patty's hands were surprisingly fleshy. Wear very thin rings and bracelets (maybe because this will not affect your activities), and you can tell that you have hands that are accustomed to working.
Except for her hands, the details of Patti Smith's life in this collection of images will not make people feel surprised, but will only make people feel kind.
On the first and last day of July, the photo is of her garden. What else could Patti Smith's garden look like? Plants grew freely, asteraceae and polygonum threatening to overwhelm the bronze statues of the boy and the bird. The huge sunflower lowered its head, and she tolerated the extremely strong ragweed underneath, allowing it to bloom and set seeds.
As the guardian of the poet Rimbaud's estate in Xufeiliroche, Patty also allowed the plants in the courtyard to grow wildly, surrounding the houses with yellow walls and blue windows, retaining the poet's atmosphere.
There are no weeds in the world, just like no experience is wasted. That's the kind of person Patti Smith is. She will not fall into the trap of nothingness. Puccini's "Tosca" contains her favorite aria: "I live for art and for love."
Her art and love are already reflected in "Just Kids" express fully. "Robert was my lover. February 14, 1968." As long as Patty Smith lives, Robert Mapplethorpe will never disappear. On his birthday, Patty presents him with an artist's crown of thorns.
Photos make disappearance impossible. In the book It's full of ghosts of yesterday, including Patti Smith's own.
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In Chicago in 1947, a big-eyed little girl spent her first Christmas. She Over her head, the silver strands hanging from the Christmas tree shine. With a new toy rabbit, her mother encourages her to walk through the kitchen for the first time and explore new areas.
In 1951, Germantown, Pennsylvania, a little girl rode a bicycle and put on Easter coat, "ready to go to the outside world". The little girl on the bicycle touches her concert poster on the previous page. The little girl grows up and walks around, drinking mace at the Wilderness Detectives' cafe Carl Wine, “Coffee with the ghosts of Camus, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. "
Today, she is still tirelessly venturing in distant places. On a yellow wall in the American alley, Patty is wearing a black top hat, with the small pointed collar of her white shirt exposed under her coat, looking straight ahead firmly. Text accompanying the photo: “Some plans are made with a spirit of optimism, knowing that there is a high probability that they will not be realized. "
Patti Smith floats freely in time, but she is not without roots. She has two parents and two children; her late brother Todd, "the love of my heart". Her daughter Jesse is her Holy Mother, son Jackson is the keeper of the family. Father's mug and mother's keychain each occupy a page.
A few words and a few photos will quickly make you fond of Patti Smith's family. The family is hers Coordinates. The mother who gave her the white statue of Rumi called her at 6:01 a.m. every birthday: "Wake up, Patricia (her original name: Patricia Lee Smith)" , you were born. "
Love and creation. In 365 days, Patty sent blessings to some birthday people and commemorated more people who died.
On December 23, photos of the ruins of Hadrian's Great Library. "Through other people's words, we What a wonderful world to enter! ”
Among the images Patti Smith looks for every day, writers are the most numerous, far more than musicians and artists. Her comments on literature are so alluring that you want to read them again immediately with Patti’s eyes. Writer's book.
She not only likes reading and writing, words are like her faith.
Mikhail Bulgakov: "Manuscripts cannot be burned. "
Nikolai Gogol: "...words are the same as black words printed on white paper. It can't be chopped with an axe. Long live "
"! Long live! Writing is better than dying. "
Part of the text of "Wake Up from Yesterday: Patti Smith's Photo Diary"
A few more excerpts:
"The desk of the great writer Jorge Luis Borges...it was designed to surround his It seems, perhaps to help him control his infinitely expanding universe. "
" Still Life and "Finnegan's Wake"... Joyce spent seventeen years writing this masterpiece, so there is no need to rush to read it. "
" Charles Baudelaire was born on this day in 1821. He believed that genius means being able to regain your childlike innocence at any time. "
" The great Japanese writer Osamu Dazai calls himself a noble vagabond, but he writes with the patience of a copywriter. ”
“On Vladimir Mayakovsky’s birthday, recall his work. He possessed the dual temperament of poet and thug, and brought us poetry as revolutionary as himself. "
" is an incense burner lit in memory of the great Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the author of "Rashomon". Afraid of madness, he sought peace and ended his life on this day. "
" William Blake was born on this day in 1757... He was always a prolific visionary, with language that had the docility of a lamb and the terrifying symmetry of a tiger. "
" Today is the birthday of the writer Franz Kafka. I woke up and dreamed about him in a cafe next to the Charles Bridge in Prague."
Part of the text of "Wake Up from Yesterday: Patti Smith's Photo Diary"
Among these people, she must have preferred Rimbaud. She took pictures of Rimbaud's manuscripts and business cards, and the baptistery where he was born. Pavillon, Paris The Queen's Hotel provides guests with the magical experience of falling asleep under a copy of Rimbaud's manuscript. Is it a dream or a nightmare?
"On the morning of November 10, 1891, he (Rimbaud) requested to take a boat to his second hometown of Abbey Xenia. He died at this point in the afternoon with his right leg already amputated, his final journey trapped in his imagination. "Patty's "Horses" was originally intended to be released on Rimbaud's birthday, but by some mistake, it was postponed and happened to be released on the anniversary of his death.
"While recording, the spirit of this immoral poet pervaded the world. in the air. "Is it because of Rimbaud? Patty's loyal companion is an Abyssinian cat with pyramid coat named Cairo.
Patty Smith holds the Abyssinian cat Cairo
Poet Rimbaud, After abandoning her pen, she lived a wilder life and died of exhaustion.
Among the artists, perhaps the one who had the greatest influence on her was Jackson Pollock. Like the poet, the painter died young and spent his life in hardship. Patty put August in the middle of Two days are dedicated to Pollock and his partner Lee Krasner. “…Photo of Jackson Pollock with Lee Krasner, given to me by my husband. It hangs in the kitchen of our home in Michigan and is our shared guide. Patty thanked Pollock for teaching her the unusual vision that made her an artist. Pollock and Krasner's struggles with hardship "mirror our own struggles." "
Faced with struggle, Patty has her own way. Love alone is not enough, she also needs luggage for the road, a camera, old leather boots, and a small desk by the window. Work, work, work.
December 28, black table A fortune-telling card with a white background is spread out on the table. How can fate reveal its secrets easily? If you are like Patty, you are also a prepared person. "With every card I turn over, I can find assurance, but also serious challenges, and faces." The stamina and self-discipline required for their time. "So congratulations, you are ready to catch the secret of destiny.
This book has another advantage. After December 31st, don't rush to put the book away. Looking further, the long appendix is A treasure trove of books, music, and art.
This book is just the beginning of the journey. Patti Smith has done an incredibly generous thing.
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