the bath

Water intoxication....while bathing I listen to music. Like Sabicas. I made a tape of Y TUS LABIOS. Just one song that's played over and over again. A Satie-like repetition. Over and Over. Over and over. The need to exhaust a pleasure. To wear it out before it wears you out. Compulsive behaviour--it's not always optional.

Bonnard's wife. She was neurasthenic. Fragile. Frightened. Obsessed. Constantly washing herself. Too clean to be cleaned. Bonnard watched her as she bathed. As she scrubbed herself away. From watching he went to painting. He painted her body. Her body washing. He took her obsession and turned it into art.

Art is sometimes just little more than Painted Obsessions.