Summertime by George Gershwin
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A Great Connection - Atlanta’s Art on the Beltline
Atlanta’s Art on the Beltline has selected sixty-six visual and performing art pieces to present along the 22-mile loop of proposed transit and urban green space. Water Is Life – Hidden Springs, Atlanta (the performance piece I proposed) is included as part of this three month event which is now in its second year. *** One Saturday morning I join a number of the other artists to walk part of the Beltline to locate sites for our outdoor projects. Early into the hike a fellah walks up beside me and says, “Hi, Sandy”. “Hi.” "You’re from Erie,” says he. “I am,” says I. I look him over carefully and decide I don’t know him. He certainly seems to know me. *** Presque Isle, Erie PA - Oct. 2010 Photo: Sandra Hughes Usually, only family members and long time friends call me Sandy. Occasionally, someone says it intuitively which I always appreciate because I actually prefer Sandy to Sandra. I adopted the use of my full, formal, first name some decades ago as a career tactic (back
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The cover of ARC 3!
THE COVER from ARC magazine, Issue 3. FIND out more here . The cover is by Lavar Munroe.
The coffins that moved
9 out of 219 by Ebony G Patterson at Alice Yard Ebony G Patterson in conversation with Alice Yard's Christopher Cozier. Photos by Andre Bagoo. COFFINS everywhere. And bodies, too. They move, are moved, were moved. How motion stops the clock, makes the ephemeral eternal. How streets outside can enter these walls, this yard. Places of mourning become places of candle-light and flight. To feel alive. This is Ebony G Patterson's 9 out of 219 . FIND OUT MORE about this show, part of a series marking Alice Yard's fifth anniversary, here . * SEE more from the show here and here . * "The work, both in its participatory aspects as well as its form, evoked Emily Dickenson’s famous poem, “A coffin—is a small Domain”, the opening lines of which are: “A Coffin—is a small Domain, / Yet able to contain / A Citizen of Paradise / In it diminished Plane.” By making a place for these objects, the artist has taken the artist’s own space and carried it beyond its traditional limits. &
From 9 out of 219
FROM the first in a series of shows to mark Alice Yard's fifth anniversary. Photos by Andre Bagoo. READ more here .
'For we ourselves are luminous'
* At night, you see, there seems to be one lit room. Who is at its exit, in the doorway, back turned? The soft rectangle of human frame widens. Who waits within the metal edging? In this state of nervousness, forearms go cold seconds before hands catch fire, excessive lotuses of flame. Would you – two dark torches loose at your sides – would you walk into the first of the long dark corridors in a building that consists more nearly of corridors than any that should ever have been designed? Each corridor runs like a spill of milk on a black tile reflected in a smoked glass ceiling clapped on the width of one layer of a hotel. These corridors are dark; you would feel them all like paleness? Though there were light I could not name their handcrafted nougat colours, gentler, intentionally washed-out. I walk in the dark, and you feel the walls’ paleness? For we ourselves are luminous. Except we do not give off light. —From About by Vahni Capildeo, featured at Poetry International Web . *
The poem is already
Image from Danielle Boodoo-Fortune's tumblr . You are reading this And the poem is already Halfway down my throat... READ more poetry from Danielle Boodoo-Fortune at tongues of the ocean here
In a small space, so many coffins
LAGAHOO: The creature takes on the form of a man with no head who roams the night with a wooden coffin on his neck. On top of the coffin are three lighted candles — NALIS * * * A COFFIN—IS A SMALL DOMAIN A Coffin—is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave—is a restricted Breadth— Yet ampler than the Sun— And all the Seas He populates And Lands He looks upon To Him who on its small Repose Bestows a single Friend— Circumference without Relief— Or Estimate—or End— — Emily Dickinson * * * On Monday 25 July , at 7 pm , Ebony G Patterson will present her work in progress 9 of 219 at Alice Yard, Woodbrook. Both installation and performance, the work will be a “bling” funeral using the Patterson's characteristic heavily decorated objects. Audience members are asked to participate by bringing candles to join in the vigil. All are invited to the event which marks the start of Alice Yard's fifth year anniversary. * * * MORE on the arti
