Saturday, June 5, 2010

darkness moves


gestures rather than signs
departures

awakening
further awakenings

stroke by stroke

approach, explore stroke by stroke
land stroke by stroke

spread out
transform stroke by stroke

give rise to erect
release stroke by stroke


(text from henri michaux's stroke by stroke [1984] - archipelago books - 2006)
(image found by scrubbing around on quicktime file of leo mccarey's ruggles of red gap - 1935)

1 comment:

the art of memory said...

to grasp while abstracting yourself ever more, to grasp the tendency, the accent, the pace, the space. to grasp the underlying.

who could, wholly, escape from signs?

grasp: translate. and everything is translation at every level, in every direction.