eol, hand cut paper, glue, 72 x 57 inches, 2007
The collage depicts an apartment interior rotated a quarter turn clockwise. Phrases from the artist’s poem have been cut into the silhouettes of objects in the image.
The phrases carved into the silhouettes expand the phrases’ meaning while still being tempered by the other phrases that form the poem.
This text reads:
| language was once so easy | I fear | I know
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| even | fact disputed |
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| now | I calculate | disguises
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| I hear nothing | when people speak | secrets are unraveling
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| no longer full | sentences | but short phrases
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| words without |
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| resolve |
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| remember without | words | without
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| “days” | and “dogs” | my handwriting no longer differentiates |
