Holding Air:
Helpless Wait

rope, carpet, steel,
upholstered forms, tree limb
velvet blouse & corner of
  concrete and stones found in a suburb of South Carolina.
2022



  A tree doesn’t see; it feels.
With the air held tightly, she waited,     bound.     breaking
.

“she’s aware of each departure and each new arrival.  They produce irritations, they provoke impulses [...] The tricks perform themselves in her, under her skin.” 
- John Berger “A Woman and Man Standing
by a Plum Tree” Photocopies: Stories


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(c) stacy Isenbarger 2023