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( COUPLINGS )
What is the risk?
seduction
or suspension
total destruction
or infinite pause
either way
a disaster
———
Samples:
Leda Atomica
by Salvador Dalí
//
The Incomplete Truth
by Damien Hirst
or suspension
total destruction
or infinite pause
either way
a disaster
———
Samples:
Leda Atomica
by Salvador Dalí
//
The Incomplete Truth
by Damien Hirst
Touch Me
reach out
run your hands through
a child's glossy hair
a tuft of grass
as it sways
in the wind
run your hands through
a child's glossy hair
a tuft of grass
as it sways
in the wind
Serpentine
muscular spirals
curve and curl in
on themselves
lost strand transformed:
a lone creature
curve and curl in
on themselves
lost strand transformed:
a lone creature
Tyger Tyger
"In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?"
———
William Blake
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?"
———
William Blake
The Mathematician & The Artist
the rules are so clear
defined
except...
through my eyes
they have a way
of running wild
defined
except...
through my eyes
they have a way
of running wild
Penetrating Stare
is that all you see
when you look at me
when you look at me
Invisible
no clearer am I
to you
than a shadow
hot skin
chill marble
neither do you feel
or see
to you
than a shadow
hot skin
chill marble
neither do you feel
or see
I AM LOST
if I take flight
blinded by the brilliance
of hope
Icarus's fate will be my own
———
Sample:
Kate MccGwire
blinded by the brilliance
of hope
Icarus's fate will be my own
———
Sample:
Kate MccGwire
A Moment of Doubt
if I carry you
suckle you
love you
will you see me
———
Samples:
Antonio Vivarini
"San Pietro da Verona
che esorcizza il demonio
apparso nelle sembianze
della Madonna"
//
Fernand Léger,
"Feuilles et Coquillage"
Tate Liverpool
suckle you
love you
will you see me
———
Samples:
Antonio Vivarini
"San Pietro da Verona
che esorcizza il demonio
apparso nelle sembianze
della Madonna"
//
Fernand Léger,
"Feuilles et Coquillage"
Tate Liverpool
When the Smoke Clears
what will be left
we wondered
aghast
staring at that September sky
when the blue appeared
aglitter with fluttering papers
and nothing else
screams of anguish
disbelief
filled the street
we wondered
aghast
staring at that September sky
when the blue appeared
aglitter with fluttering papers
and nothing else
screams of anguish
disbelief
filled the street
Self Portrait with Hair
I dislike
going
to the salon
having to talk with people
to whom I have nothing
to say
———
Sample:
Zanele Muholi,
Phaphama, at Cassilhaus,
North Carolina, series
Somnyama Ngonyama
(Hail the Dark Lioness)
going
to the salon
having to talk with people
to whom I have nothing
to say
———
Sample:
Zanele Muholi,
Phaphama, at Cassilhaus,
North Carolina, series
Somnyama Ngonyama
(Hail the Dark Lioness)
Un petit mort
one more
or one less
pigeon
in this world
or one less
pigeon
in this world
Child's Hand
I remember
the heat
of a little hand
upon me
not a thought
just the sense
that my body
is an extension
of her own
the heat
of a little hand
upon me
not a thought
just the sense
that my body
is an extension
of her own
Hard Folds
if I could pause
a fleeting moment
retrace the folds of your shirt
as it falls to the floor
a fleeting moment
retrace the folds of your shirt
as it falls to the floor
Absence of Presence
lost to a dream
you go through the motions
do you even see
what is before you
you go through the motions
do you even see
what is before you
Fragments
shattered
I have reassembled
the pieces
fingering each like
a worry stone
fitted it into place
I have smoothed the edges
have built a carapace
solid and unyielding
but chaos ever threatens
to break loose
———
Samples:
Giovanni Battista Foggini
"Cardinal Gian Carlo
de'Medici"
Victoria & Albert Museum
//
Tobias Rehberger
Cafeteria Design
Venice Biennale
I have reassembled
the pieces
fingering each like
a worry stone
fitted it into place
I have smoothed the edges
have built a carapace
solid and unyielding
but chaos ever threatens
to break loose
———
Samples:
Giovanni Battista Foggini
"Cardinal Gian Carlo
de'Medici"
Victoria & Albert Museum
//
Tobias Rehberger
Cafeteria Design
Venice Biennale
Trapped
we like to think
we are free
to choose
to live
to be
but, looking back,
I am thinking
perhaps
not so much
we are free
to choose
to live
to be
but, looking back,
I am thinking
perhaps
not so much
Just the Two of Us
if there is
a strong wind
I might just
disappear
———
Sample:
Arcangelo Sassolino "Momento" Galleria
Continua Paris
a strong wind
I might just
disappear
———
Sample:
Arcangelo Sassolino "Momento" Galleria
Continua Paris
Wild
leave it be
don't try
to tame me
don't try
to tame me
Perfection
somehow
the difference
between my imagination
and reality
doesn't parse
———
Sample:
Bunny Rogers
(legs)
the difference
between my imagination
and reality
doesn't parse
———
Sample:
Bunny Rogers
(legs)
Splayed
do you seek beauty
or pleasure?
can we find them
together?
———
Langoustines:
Table,
chef Bruno Verjus
or pleasure?
can we find them
together?
———
Langoustines:
Table,
chef Bruno Verjus
Order...
...and disorder
are relative
———
Sample:
Textile by Anni Albers
are relative
———
Sample:
Textile by Anni Albers
Choices
do you feel
brave
brave
Behind the Curtain
what will you see
if you peer
behind the curtain
peel it away
surreptitiously
curious fingers
gently graze
my surface
and beneath?
———
Samples:
Ronan & Erwan
Bouroullec, "Flags"
Bourse de Commerce
Pinault Collection Paris
//
Christ & Jeanne-Claude
"The Gates"
Central Park, NYC
if you peer
behind the curtain
peel it away
surreptitiously
curious fingers
gently graze
my surface
and beneath?
———
Samples:
Ronan & Erwan
Bouroullec, "Flags"
Bourse de Commerce
Pinault Collection Paris
//
Christ & Jeanne-Claude
"The Gates"
Central Park, NYC
Twisted
the path
may not be
as straightforward
as I thought
may not be
as straightforward
as I thought
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