len as lazarus, 2015, 8 x 12, oil on altered digital print     



(Lazarus) ... what makes him a Christian martyr, possibly the only Christian martyr, is that he lived for the cause of the Christ, of the life, and he could do so only by no longer being mortal, i.e., dead while alive, but instead solely alive. 
-Toufic



len as lazarus, 2015, 4 x 4, oil on altered digital print                          



“however much the farmer toils and sows
never will he reach the transformation
of the seed into summer. Earth bestows,”
- Rilke



len as lazarus, 2015, 4 x 4, oil on altered digital print                           



How come the image in the mirror that the dead or the schizophrenic (someone who died before dying) faced did not turn toward him? It was because the turn of the one in the mirror, a(n) (un)dead, to answer the sous-entendu call using his proper name was overturned by an over-turn: or because the one facing the mirror was then assuming other names, if not all the names of history as his name(s), and so called the one in the mirror by one of these other names, with the infelicitous consequences that it was another who was being called. Did Antonin Artaud at some point see himself with his back to himself in the mirror? Was it because he has at that point already died,
-Toufic



len as lazarus, 2015, 4 x 4, oil on altered digital print                           






len as lazarus, 2015, 4 x 4, oil on altered digital print                           






len as lazarus, 2015, 4 x 4, oil on altered digital print                           






len as lazarus, 2015, 4 x 4, oil on altered digital print