Capturing the flow
Capturing the moment or the flow
doesn’t really characterize
whatever it is that I’m part of —
that we’re part of or pass through
or happen in or with or despite.
So I make these line drawings
which tick along as I make them
and as I tick along. They don’t capture
anything as it is or was, yet neither are they
wholly independent of what happens
with me in this flow.
I work on them until they are right,
until they are something on their own.
It’s not enough that they might be
representative of something I know, they
need to be a new thing —
with the proviso that they include
the familiar, the mysterious, and the beautiful -
with fine sensuous lines like Rico LeBrun used
and that Picasso wrestled with & romanced
in the line likenesses he loved —
little realities that spin on the page
so that they are as difficult to completely know
as any part of the flow — this art that we are.
June 2, 2010
Capturing the moment or the flow
doesn’t really characterize
whatever it is that I’m part of —
that we’re part of or pass through
or happen in or with or despite.
So I make these line drawings
which tick along as I make them
and as I tick along. They don’t capture
anything as it is or was, yet neither are they
wholly independent of what happens
with me in this flow.
I work on them until they are right,
until they are something on their own.
It’s not enough that they might be
representative of something I know, they
need to be a new thing —
with the proviso that they include
the familiar, the mysterious, and the beautiful -
with fine sensuous lines like Rico LeBrun used
and that Picasso wrestled with & romanced
in the line likenesses he loved —
little realities that spin on the page
so that they are as difficult to completely know
as any part of the flow — this art that we are.
June 2, 2010
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