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| "The Embrace." (Dec. 5, 2013) |
Cactuses to cracks in the crags,
The hot earth dragging. Here and
There dry dirt baking beside hot
Black pavement where cars kick up
Dust in their rubber sprints. Hearing only the endless road-
Woosh miraging over the riverless
Ditch.
Is this dry land so endless?
Yes, to the bone.
3 comments:
Can you talk a little about this photo and the previous photos? (The poem feels like an endless loneliness that has been absorbed to the bone...and "the embrace" is a joke...the two objects cannot even touch yet they claim to be embracing one another)
You're right about the embrace, it's important that the two objects are not touching. But it's unclear whether the two objects are static or whether the image implies movement, as if we were watching the two objects at the onset of an embrace. I think what's important about the image is the idea that the two objects are simple and contained in their shapes, but at the point where the shapes start to converge their forms break down and become more complex, harder to contain. It's as if the attraction which brings the two together also destroys the two shapes to some degree. I was trying to do something very similar to what Rodin did in his sculpture "The Kiss" where the two forms, because they interact so intimately with one another, ultimately obscure one another. So that if we quite literally separated the two figures we would find flaws or blemishes in the form at every point where the figure contacted the other. And ultimately I think these ideas serve as a effective metaphor for what actually happens between two people in any intimate relationship.
Wow, thats brilliant! I love how you drew a parallel to a couple hundred year old sculpture...so many of these themes (like the chemistry of two people will cause transformation when separated) echo throughout history.
Metaphorical expressions of transformation are far more accurate than what the physical body can reveal. It is so damn confusing! The themes that have echoed throughout human history are simple… so why do humans still struggle with them 3 thousand + years later? What if every moment we were slightly transformed our physical appearance changed too? That way our mental/emotional/inner experiences would correlate with our external appearance. Blatant honesty. Perhaps that would solve some of the worlds problems.
Every time we meet someone we are slightly transformed…just like the blemishes that would appear on a lovers’ face just after separation…that is why there is no such thing as a “perfect self referential painting.”
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