Someone is offering
$10.00 to anyone who can play the piano without any rhythm or tune. Failing at the
challenge, a man is playing a melody, enjoying himself. i step up to the keyboard, which
is covered with a sheet of ice beginning to crack, and flail at the keys....
I awake
to thinking how organized sounds entrain the brain, coaxing neurons
to flutter like a butterfly, or how a bear dances, and how there is nothing surprising
about this: the crude attempts of that lost creature, man, could
not cover more than a tiny part of the aesthetics of the universe.
No matter what image an artist invents, our
perception of drawing will focus less on lacunae, gaps, revisions,
redundancies, all that contributes to the initial process of composition
and belongs to the pages of ‘studies,’ than on the
almost imperceptible outline of the work, on semi-erasures, the
partial concealments of a face or a shoulder, the very gradual
displacement of a motif in the space of the page
no matter how distorted, arbitrary, absurd, simple, elaborate,
or tortured myriad beings respond to the modalities
of art.
Sasquatch lifts
his feet
stomps
the earth
smiles as the wind
picks up
his beat.
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