SPEAK JUAN MUNOZ
Started Spaniards feel idea. Trick
jetty such that transition
my outdoors Mondrian floor freezes.
SPEAK JUAN MUNOZ
Slow I spent one year in New York--I made one drawing.
Spain, I stopped traveling, finally set up a studio
when I started making objects looking at the world
always conceptually oriented--the dwarves, ventriloquist’s dummies . . .
Trick like a labyrinth, but one without walls [Smithson’s Spiral Jetty].
Jannis Kounellis>>I learned that the repertoire should be extremely open.
Muted and bound, forever moving and forever going nowhere.
That they wish that they could do more than they do.
Think that they are trying to articulate.
Making the smiling Chinese statues who didn’t like to be left alone.
Cut through the architecture of the preceding exhibition.
Can make a sculpture that appears to weigh 1 ton out of 10 pounds of . . .
Baroque intellectual implications of drawing a straight line.
Freezes.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 8-10-11 (11:10 AM)
Experimenting for the first time with the eDiastic poem generator, I was initially surprised by the brevity of the result and rejected the first two texts. The third version struck me as presentable if I clarified the syntax with punctuation, but I decided first to work my way thru my source manually as I've done for years. Once I finished revising the acrostic sonnet, I returned to the computer-generated result and almost immediately treated it with a bit of punctuation.
Here's a link to a much earlier work I initially drafted while sitting in a museum auditorium listening to a curator talk about Juan Munoz's mid-career retrospective. I had met this artist even earlier when he had given his own talk, and we both thought that there was a possibility for a continuing professional connection, but sadly in the interim he died unexpectedly at the age of 48.
http://www.wildhoneypress.com/Biographies/week2/Barry.htm
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