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On Sat, September 17, 2011 16:07, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Colour, shifts of image: neatly caught, Lawrence, as felt/seen…
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> Doug
> On 2011-09-16, at 3:24 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> Time of yellow whiteness, unexaminable,
>> our eyes purpled in quickening blindness, too bright, the bay hot ash,
>> surroundings fully melted, fire of unconsuming strength far greater than
>> spreading river or lethal tide. And one has looked away, called by the
>> small clicking sounds of this home stretching, on the edge of the abyss
>> of stellar power; tea cold. And yet, the human isn’t entirely unmade;
>> small details grab against the powerful shut out. A half-built flat roof,
>> is it? shiny stream in a dry landscape; blue, perhaps rollered, already
>> congealed wherever glimpsed; rugs of matt dead ocean sometimes
>> glistening, a dazzle mixed at the farther shore; the Hayle mouth in
>> conflagration, many words lost and more feared entirely dead. The
>> burning sea’s inbound, the observer participant at once, big, just where
>> observation is irrelevant. In all things. The church bell clatters out
>> the quarter. An whole hour shriveled, learning how not to look.
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> People say they have to express their emotions.
> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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