Ohne Titel / Untitled, 1987, color photograph, 27,7 x 20,2 cm
Ohne Titel / Untitled, 2006/1973 (Estate print), color photograph polyptych, 25,3 x 18,1 cm
Jeder Möchte String / Everybody Would Like String, 1987, mixed media, 75 x 40 cm
Ohne Titel / Untitled, 1987, color photograph, 27,7 x 20,2 cm
Ohne Titel / Untitled, 2006/1973 (Estate print), color photograph polyptych, 25,3 x 18,1 cm
Jeder Möchte String / Everybody Would Like String, 1987, mixed media, 75 x 40 cm
Gina Pane, Melancholy Action
Helen CHADWICK
Meat Abstract No. 5: Heart of Liver, 1989
Polaroid, silk mat
81 x 71 cm
98 x 77 cm overall
Nan Goldin, Bathroom, Hafen Bar, Berlin.
Yoko Ono
The Tetsumi Kudo and Carol Rama exhibit at Fergus McCaffrey (June 2018)
I Feel Your Heart Beat In My Throat, Peter Gallo
Adán Vallecillo. Amantes imperfectos 2012. 4,5 x 4,5 cm. Estuche y pilas gastadas. PM8 Gallery. Vigo (Spain)
Intermitent rain, by Roo Borson
Claude Debussy – Arabesque n°1
with Alberto Neuman
Rain hitting the shovel
leaned against the house,
rain eating the edges
of the metal in tiny bites,
bloating the handle,
cracking it.
The rain quits and starts again.
There are people who go into that room in the house
where the piano is and close the door.
They play to get at that thing
on the tip of the tongue,
the thing they think of first and never say.
They would leave it out in the rain if they could.
The heart is a shovel leaning against a house somewhere
among the other forgotten tools.
The heart, it’s always digging up old ground,
always wanting to give things a decent burial.
But so much stays fugitive,
inside,
where it can’t be reached.
the piano is a way of practising
speech when you have no mouth.
When the heart is a shovel that would bury itself.
Still we can go up casually to a piano
and sit down and start playing
the way the rain felt in someone else’s bones
a hundred years ago,
before we were born,
before we were even one cell,
when the world was clean,
when there were no hearts or people,
the way it sounded
a billion years ago, pattering
into unknown ground. Rain
hitting the shovel leaned against the house,
eating the edges of the metal.
It quits,
and starts again.
from Sudden Miracles: Eight Women Poets
edited by Rhea Tregebov (Second Story Press, 1991)