Thanks, Doug. I agree with your assessment, except that it was probably
Pound's "In A Station Of The Metro" which unconsciously guided my editing
out two of the four lines which came to mind as I watched the film, trying
hard to write about Bruce Conner and unintentionally ending up with a work
about Jay DeFeo. On this viewing occasion, there were no words to
appropriate on the screen or soundtrack, so I was wary of a foregrounded
ego. In fact, I became aware of the possibility of such a reading just as
I was about to post the poem and note. Eventually I concluded that the
information about my references would bury an undesired initial reading
ignoring them. Barry
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:52:56 -0700, Douglas Barbour
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>A kind of pomo haiku, Barry? I like it, but realized after reading your
>explanation that I really needed it, in that I did not know about the
>artist or the painting....
>
>Doug
>On 17-Nov-05, at 12:31 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> THE WHITE ROSE
>>
>> [via Bruce Conner]
>>
>> Once protectively covered >
>> Jay DeFeo’s bed.
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 11-17-05 (2:29 AM)
>>
>>
>> Written while watching for perhaps the third time Bruce Conner’s 1967
>> film
>> documenting the removal of a now-legendary, 2300-pound painting (“The
>> White
>> Rose”) from the upper level studio of artist Jay DeFeo. On this
>> viewing I
>> was struck by DeFeo’s performative activity of placing relatively small
>> sheets of paper over the front surface of her huge painting and then
>> laying
>> down on it, once the staff from Bekin’s had moved “The White Rose”
>> from its
>> initial vertical position to a horizontal location on the floor of her
>> studio. Eventually I began to consciously consider this activity in
>> relation to the use of mattresses as material for art making by Robert
>> Rauschenberg and Guillermo Kuitca. Jackson Pollock’s painting of
>> canvas
>> laid out on the floor also came to mind. Despite its rescue and
>> exhibition
>> in the late sixties, “The White Rose” apparently “languished” in
>> storage at
>> the San Francisco Art Institute for 25 years until it underwent
>> conservation and entered the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.
>>
>>
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