THAT SPEECHLESS GREEN MAN INSIDE A CYBORG ↗
BY ERIC GIRAUDET DE BOUDEMANGE
SOLSTICE↗
Listen
There
Down, down, there
>>>Big FIRE BALL
The big FIRE BALL ↗
Here
Blue small
Blue bottom ball
Look in the moon and wait
Look all that moon ↗
Solstice FIRE
Dance-ING light
in the ice-ING night
Men dance-ING with inside monster ↗
>> 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
The cold secret of wilderness
>> 1 – 0 – 0 – 1 ↗
That speechless green man inside a cyborg ↗
Please
>>> Open mouth CAREFUL ↗
Talk-ING mouth ↗
>> AH ↗
Talk-ing monster ↗
>> AH – B – B – AH
>> Slap, jump, walk, run
Hands up, head down
>> Foot-(s) PLURAL, like
hammer-(s) PLURAL, inside a FIRE
Secret fight
in the ice-ING night
PARADISE↗
>> 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
tree-(s) PLURAL
Forest on the hilltop
>> Rock, nest, flat rock
Water, turtle, mushroom trail
Apple, peach, pineapple, tree
Velvet-plant bird, banana nest
Apple ↗
Banana
Carrot
Dog ↗
Egg
Fruit
Grapes
Hill
Ice
Juice
Kiwi
Lemon
>>>> M&M&M&
>>>>>>>>>>> M&M&
>>>>>>> Oil ↗
Peach
Question
Raisin
SSS
>>>> SSS
>>>>>>>>> Snake ↗
Tomato ↗
Umbrella
Vitamin
Watermelon
X
Yogurt
Z
SNAKE
SSS
>>>> SSS
Snake in a tree ↗
Jump, chase
>> Run, place
>>>>> Fight, bite
Break, Snake ↗
Bite, Open And Eat, Snake
And Drink Inside
The Snake
>>>> SSS
Feel like jelly
Your name is KANZI ↗
KANZI walk
KANZI talk ↗
Broken big sick panzee ↗
Gorilla, panzee, orangutan
Forest men of yesterday time ↗
Open mouth careful
Talk-ING mouth.
Talk-ING monster ↗
That domestic forest man inside a cyborg ↗
>> 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
>>>>>>> Pine cone
>>>>>>> Pine needle
Scrubby pine nook
>>>>>>> Burrito, banana
Banana burrito ↗
In the marshmallow FIRE ↗
Eat hot dog
Chase a squirrel
Think a cat
Tickle a turtle
Bite a bunny ↗
Slap a snake
>>> Until it break
The eloquent savage inside the cyborg ↗
ARCHITECTURE NOW↗
Inside the log cabin
Bathroom, bedroom,
colony room, criss cross corners,
observation room
Hilltop, house, swimming pool
group room and middle test room ↗
Lookout point, up here!
Some monsters are down there: ↗
Outdoors, close to the trailer and the tree house
Walk outdoors with a LIGHTER
Make a FIRE with the LIGHTER ↗
>>>>>>> Small rock hits
a big flat rock
>>>>>>> Small rock break to make a knife,
with the flat rock
Tools of that eloquent savage ↗
PLAY-YARD
>>>> Play,
Balloon, balloon, jump, keep-away ↗
>>>> Play, put, paint
>>>>>>> Throw, tickle, touch
>>>> Pretend, point, pee ↗
That is the dance of the hairy
>>>> Play-ING to pretend
To be that eloquent cyborg
>> > Open mouth careful
Talk-ING mouth.
Talk-ING monster
>>>>>>>>Touch, me ↗
Touch the rock
Touch, foot, hand, head, hot
Touch the flat rock
>>>>>>>>Electric shock ↗
>>>>>>>>>>>>Swelling tummy. Medicine
>>>>>>>>>>>>Swelling tummy. Vitamine
That eloquent sick man is a cyborg ↗
>>>>>>>>>>>>Down
>>>>>>>>>>>>Sick
>>>>>>>>>>>>Hot head
Cold hand-(s) PLURAL
>>>>>>>>>>>>Hot, hurt
>>>>>>>>>>>>Swelling tummy. Medicine
>>>>>>>>>>>>Swelling tummy. Vitamine ↗
SUE’S OFFICE
You listen the solstice fire dance ↗
Dance-ing light>>>>……>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
in the ice-ing night>>>>……>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Austin
Bill
Chow
Clara
Duane
Elikya
Jon
Liz
Mary
Matata
Nyota
Panbanisha ↗
Rob
Sherman
Sue ↗
In Sue’s office
The light-(s) PLURAL of the solstice
Many dance, some drink ↗
Yellow juice>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lemon juice>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>.>Lemo&m&m&m&ade ↗
Coke and many vitamin-(s) PLURAL ↗
All dance, no hairy
You different
You domestic forest man
You want Sue
You like Sue
> You want to do Sue
You want to drink Sue ↗
It is your secret
Hide-ING here, in observation room ↗
Like the snake
>>>>>>>>>>> >You want Sue to break
You open Sue’s office
You feel the light-(s) PLURAL of the solstice
Many dance and many drink ↗
You touch Sue
Easy baby.
You want to do Sue
Sugar baby. ↗
>>> Pretend, point, pee
That is the dance of the hairy ↗
Men quiet in Sue’s office
You have a rock knife ↗
Tool of the eloquent savage
>>> Open mouth CAREFUL
Talk-ING mouth.
Talk-ING monster ↗
You want to do Sue
You want to drink Sue
Cold kiss ↗
Austin, Bill, and Chow
Throw an Apple, a Ball and Chalk
Your arm break.
Red juice on the fridge
>>>>Hurt.
Cold hand-(s) PLURAL
Hot, hurt ↗
Austin, Bill, and Chow chase
You run
>>>>Bathroom, bedroom,
colony room, criss cross corners,
>>>>observation room ↗
You run
>>>>Throw a rock, ↗
You run
throw a flat rock ↗
>>>>Electric shock ↗
Cold hand-(s) PLURAL
Hot, hurt
You eloquent sick man in the cyborg↗
SOLSTICE #2
Back to the forest ↗
Back to before ↗
Look in the moon and wait
Look all that moon
Dance-ING light>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
in the ice-ING night>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You eloquent green man inside a cyborg ↗
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A poem written in Yerkish, an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. The language employs a computer-based keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas. The language was made famous by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a psychologist and primatologist most known for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their linguistic and cognitive abilities.
The poem also makes links with the folkloric figure of the WILD MAN during the winter solstice ritual. The vegetal Green Man is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.
The French artist Eric Giraudet de Boudemange travels around the world to satisfy his deep curiosity for rites and games. He uses his experiences as inspiration for his artworks. For his art he has learned an obscure darts game from French miners, and deer hunting and pigeon breeding. The stories he tells are about history, politics, folk culture, pop culture, landscapes and biology.