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.”
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
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