#hell #card pigment on paper 35x25 cm December 2025
NEW YEAR'S BEYOND BARS

On Attila's horse
loosening the reins around his neck
and galloping with illusions—
the New Year has arrived.
A pack of wolves
comes lashing its oars.
The wolves with which men
have warmed the winter.
Their flanks pawed the ground,
heated, and a plume of mist
moistened their lips.
Maned in blood and mourning,
it began its journey,
unwinding its arteries
on the spindle of an allegro.
We heard it babble
beside piles of dead bodies
and hear tragic executions neighing in the night.
But with a blanket of oblivion
we padded our chests
and with whips of jubilation
we went out to meet it.
In joyful revelry,
we prisoners paraded,
dragging our chains
from room to room.
That merriment was neither
a joke nor a celebration.
It was a rite unfolding
in the tunic of January
like a warm friendship
overflowing with fluttering wings.
When he passed by us,
bridle loose, long neck
and galloping with illusions,
he wore a shattered helmet.
And we raised, in our joy,
the fallen masts,
leaping on a string of roses over
the sleepless parapets
that ultimately walled up
the furies of the old year.
That night we returned
to cross freed meadows,
riders on the galloping
full speed of our dreams.

Pedro García Cabrera

#aarde #earth 1997 #card 15x23 pigment on paper

Today my small discovery was how to #flash #SD #card with an #image using a #terminal and #sudo dd #command. No more flashing #software needed. A new firmware 3.1 was published for Eyesy video synth recently.