OF ANDY G[oldsworthy]
Of looking, of using, trying . . .
fallen into the stream.
And sometimes in counterpoint
not to see that change as something negative, but as
dead trees creased along the fold to catch,
you know, that feeling--at least for me it’s
got . . . I felt I should work with it.
OF ANDY G[oldsworthy]
Of days to make it’s quite high
of pressure—-the challenge was to make that ring of branches withstand
anticipation of something to happen in the future
and this lasted—-I made this
understood by staying in one place.
Very dark earth that is found in the mountains and
gets on your shoes when you walk in the city.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 2-16-05 (12:13 AM)
This past Saturday I saw a dust-covered Andy Goldsworthy in full gas mask
sanding slate for his installation right outside the National Gallery of
Art in Washington DC. I took this unexpected sight as unframed performance
imagery in real life, but alas I didn't have my camera in my pocket that
day. However, I was comfortable enough with Goldsworthy's language from
two previous exposures to filmic documentation that I was able to write
four acrostic and two diastic half sonnets out of a video the NGA made of a
live lecture by AG which I had been unable to attend. So far I've only had
enough energy to revise the first two texts in the series.
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