Thursday, May 27, 2010

Witness: Five Poems from text



1.

apprehended, recorded and relived
sprawling venues of multitude
modest poetic and meaningful

A universal theme,
feelings relay loss and remembrance,
charcoal drawings on timber.

discussion
briefly abundant with residue
in the act of recording
one's own life
history can be soothing,

buried artifacts
Carefully and thoughtfully curated
depressive and uplifting, traumatic and hopeful.
the way psyche continues alongside
the entrance of faces
inscribed with peace.

A spectacular scale
of two bodies
text, snapshots
a third, exquisite haziness
wooden moving objects

semi-fictional traces of boundaries
obscure, obfuscated simplicity,
capturing the passage into
real time
the entrance and exit to
Loss
and achingly beautiful ordinariness
of this unspeakable location

2.

touching,
An astute notion
in its physical scale
The result of disparate times

3.

six different cultural parents
alongside
studio photographs of African Americans
'witnessed'
by a ghostly ancestral presence.

4.

A Chinese-born performance hovers,
suspended in New York,
Accompanied by a sheep costume,
white doves enacted a gesture
to dominate the front lawn
wearing a series of calligraphic marks.
conceived specifically for martial arts

5.

Recollections of characters
replete with the momentous symbols
In My Father's House and In My Mother's Garden
followed by a quiet text
containing terms of its installation
transcribed across the gallery walls.

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