Peter
Blegvad, Angel Trap (Blue),
Ink and watercolor impregnated with Suze (liquor made from blue gentian), 1977.
Ink and watercolor impregnated with Suze (liquor made from blue gentian), 1977.
I wanted to emulate country music’s way with outlandish
metaphors and narratives that don’t seem bookish or elitist. I met someone the
other day who said he’d quoted my lyric “I gave myself to you intact / but you
gave twisted wreckage back” in his divorce proceedings. Always glad to be of
service.
Peter Blegvad, Lion — Imagined, Observed, Remembered. Ink and watercolor, 1984.
The goal of all my work is essentially the same:
demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention,
and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic
existence. Or something like that.
From Peter Blegvad Interview in The Believer (link)
by Franklin Bruno: Nov./Dec. 2009
Video Link: Peter Blegvad -- The Driver's Seat (solo performance at Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow, 1996)
Video Link: Peter Blegvad -- The Driver's Seat (solo performance at Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow, 1996)
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