SAY VIJA CELMINS
Slides. I have some terrible slides--
a revolver [awkwardly painted] . . .
you might say that the subjects have already been flattened.
Very childlike.
It’s too late. It was so long ago,
just because it set something off,
a connection, not an abstract connection, about space.
Clipped from one of those books
extraordinary images—-I did not think these were.
Like to make dense paintings
mute. So here
I’m trying to tone down, coming out of action painting.
No, I was trying to redescribe it thru my body.
Spirit in which I did this?
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 12-13-06 (9:24 PM)
Revised from a rough draft written during a staged conversation with this
Latvian-American visual artist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
DC. Her manner of talking attracted me immediately. Video footage of her
images and voice (from another occasion) can be accessed at:
www.pbs.org/art21/artists/celmins/index.html
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