{"id":1871,"date":"2007-10-25T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T23:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:10:15","slug":"when-art-comments-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"When art comments on art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever read Eudora Welty’s Powerhouse – it’s her version of trying to write about jazz after experiencing a jazz musician who entranced her? Or my friend Chris Cressionne used to paint to my brother Robert Namer’s talk radio program. Okay, that’s right, I’m throwing these two in the same vein. I came across this poem today on a website<\/a> I like. <\/p>\n

Time and Materials
\nGerhard Richter: Abstrakt Bilden<\/p>\n

I.<\/p>\n

To make layers,
\nAs if they were a steadiness of days:<\/p>\n

It snowed; I did errands at a desk;
\nA white flurry out the window thickening; my tongue
\nTasted of the glue on envelopes.<\/p>\n

On this day sunlight on red brick, bare trees,
\nNothing stirring in the icy air.<\/p>\n

On this day a blur of color moving at the gym
\nWhere the heat from bodies
\nMeets the watery, cold surface of the glass.<\/p>\n

Made love, made curry, talked on the phone
\nTo friends, the one whose brother died
\nWas crying and thinking alternately,
\nLike someone falling down and getting up
\nAnd running and falling and getting up.<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

The object of this poem is not to annihila<\/p>\n

To not annih<\/p>\n

The object of this poem is to report a theft,
\n In progress, of everything
\nThat is not these words
\n And their disposition on the page.<\/p>\n

The object o f this poem is to report a theft,
\n In progre ss of everything that exists
\nThat is not th ese words
\n And their d isposition on the page.<\/p>\n

The object of his poe is t epro a theft
\n In rogres f ever hing at xists
\nTh is no ese w rds
\n And their disp sit on o the pag<\/p>\n

3\u00b7<\/p>\n

To score, to scar, to smear, to streak,
\nTo smudge, to blur, to gouge, to scrape.<\/p>\n

“Action painting,” i.e.,
\nThe painter gets to behave like time.<\/p>\n

4\u00b7<\/p>\n

The typo would be “paining.”<\/p>\n

(To abrade.)<\/p>\n

5\u00b7<\/p>\n

Or to render time and stand outside
\nThe horizontal rush of it, for a moment
\nTo have the sensation of standing outside
\nThe greenish rush of it.<\/p>\n

6.<\/p>\n

Some vertical gesture then, the way that anger
\nOr desire can rip a life apart,<\/p>\n

Some wound of color.<\/p>\n

Robert Hass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever read Eudora Welty’s Powerhouse – it’s her version of trying to write about jazz after experiencing a jazz musician who entranced her? Or my friend Chris Cressionne used to paint to my brother Robert Namer’s talk radio program. Okay, that’s right, I’m throwing these two in the same vein. I came across this poem today on a website I like. Time and Materials Gerhard Richter: Abstrakt Bilden I. To make layers, As if they… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-ub","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21151,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/21151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}