Saucy Leechcraft
Alice Könitz, Annette Weisser, Cal Crawford, Matthew Grover
Nora Shields, Peter Wu, Rochele Gomez, Zack Stadel
April 21, 2012 - May 17, 2012
Opening reception on April 21 from 7 to 10pm
Saucy Leechcraft
Alice Könitz, Annette Weisser, Cal Crawford, Matthew Grover
Nora Shields, Peter Wu, Rochele Gomez, Zack Stadel
April 21, 2012 - May 17, 2012
Opening reception on April 21 from 7 to 10pm
SAUCY LEECHCRAFT
If Sanguin humour do too much abound,
These signes will be thereof appearing cheefe,
The face will swell, the cheeks grow red and round,
With staring eies, the pulse beate soft and breefe,
The veynes exceed, the belly will be bound,
The temples, and the forehead full of griefe,
Unquiet sleeps, that so strange dreames will make
To cause one blush to tell when he doth wake:
Besides the moysture of the mouth and spittle,
Will taste too sweet, and seeme the throat to tickle.
If Choller do exceed, as may sometime,
Your eares will ring, and make you to be wakefull,
Your tongue will seeme all rough, and oftentimes
Cause vomits, unaccustomed and hatefull,
Great thirst, your excrements are full of slime,
The stomacke squeamish, sustenance ungratefull,
Your appetite will seeme in nought delighting,
Your heart still greeued with continuall byting,
The pulse beate hard and swift, all hot, extreame,
Your spittle soure, of fire-worke oft you dreame.
If Flegme abundance haue due limits past,
These signes are here set downe will plainly shew,
The mouth will seeme to you quite out of taste,
And apt with moisture still to overflow,
Your sides will seeme all sore downe to the waist,
Your meat wax loathsome, your digestion slow,
Your head and stomacke both in so ill taking,
One seeming euer griping tother aking:
With empty veynes, the pulse beat slow and soft,
In sleepe, of seas and ryuers dreaming oft.
But if that dangerous humour ouer-raigne,
Of Melancholy, sometime making mad,
These tokens then will be appearing plaine,
The pulse beat hard, the colour darke and bad:
The water thin, a weake fantasticke braine,
False-grounded ioy, or else perpetuall sad,
Affrighted oftentimes with dreames like visions,
Presenting to the thought ill apparitions,
Of bitter belches from the stomacke comming,
His eare (the left especiall) euer humming.
From Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum,
attributed to John of Milano, 11th Century.
JB Jurve is please to present SAUCY LEECHCRAFT, a group show featuring the work of eight Los Angeles based artists. The exhibition will be on view from April 21 to May 17. The opening reception will be from 7 – 10 pm, Saturday April 21, 2012.