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Indigo Blue - Erasing Words With Ann Hamilton (Sculptor & Installation
Artist) at San Francisco Museum of Art
...The installation has already been up for a few weeks, and the previous
workers have erased several pages. For reasons unknown to me, the book is
being erased from back to front - almost as if the process is to make us
work backwards to the point of the books inception. Some of the pages are
perforated with holes from workers who have been too aggressive. The
assistant curator has sent out an in an email message warning up to be
gentle with our strokes across the page. Indeed, the type on the pages is
variously visible, but definitely unreadable...
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Mom - Critic and Poet
Friday evening I took to reading some poems to my mom - some Jack Spicer,
Denise Levertov and Allen Ginsberg. Previously I have been astonished by
some of the things she has had to say about pieces from Gertrude Steinıs
Tender Buttons and poems in Kenneth Rextrothıs Love And The Turning Year:
100 More Poems From the Chinese. Her manner is to listen closely, and then,
when I ask about the poems meaning, to make an authoritative take on her
sense of what she has heard..
Enjoy, and comments appreciated,
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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