John Batki is a kilimologist, writer, translator, and visual artist. He was born in Hungary and has lived in the United States since age 14. His work explores aspects of the verbo-visual continuum.
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Life is a finite, ready-made task, an endurance no one wants to forgo before it’s time. We live out our lives the way the seasons follow one another with perfect aplomb. Human life has a spring, a red-hot summer, an autumn prolonged into a yawn, a winter calmative, flawlessly attuned to the calendar’s call. We […]
Alan Kennedy suggested I post this brief essay, originally presented in 1996 as a talk and published as Discussion Paper 29, Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study, with illustrations from monographs by Marija Gimbutas (The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe; The Language of the Goddess). John Batki The Ancient Goddess in Krudy’s SUNFLOWER Gyula Krudy’s […]
Tossing the heads of cut grass with a quick peek at the sparrows a mighty wind scooped me up once out of an April evening’s shadows. She was looking for her children and found me on the way. She roared her joy; I smiled, rocked on her huge breast lull-a-lay. She swept me […]