I don't want to tell you the truth. I want to tell you the right thing. —Traci Brimhall
Our thoughts have a life of their own, independent of our will. —Emerson
To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other. ―Albert Camus
Duration crinkles space to place
Gazing through infinite parallels —
Without wishful convergence,
No dangling divergence,
Absent fake vanishing point.
Gazing through infinite parallels —
Without wishful convergence,
No dangling divergence,
Absent fake vanishing point.
In this finding at zero point, a single still point,
Symbiotic star bodies called walls stream by
signaling eternal animation —
Pinballed abstracts on the move.
Relativity as such.Symbiotic star bodies called walls stream by
signaling eternal animation —
Pinballed abstracts on the move.
Surprise!
The artful universe an unbending all-strikes alleyway!
NOTES
— Traci Brimhall, from the poem Light in the Basement, in the collection Rookery (2010, Crab Orchard Review)
— Emerson, from the Journals, 1865
— Traci Brimhall, from the poem Light in the Basement, in the collection Rookery (2010, Crab Orchard Review)
— Emerson, from the Journals, 1865
― Albert Camus, Create Dangerously, a lecture on December 14 1957
(PDF of the Lecture, given four days after awarded the Nobel in Literature)
― Image below: detail of Mosaic by Russell Ziolkowski in Springfield City Hall
The artist chooses his object as much as he is chosen by it. Art, in a
sense, is a revolt against everything fleeting and unfinished in the
world.
― Albert Camus, in Create Dangerously
― Albert Camus, in Create Dangerously
