Tag: sea

Janine Antoni, Conduit, 2009, Copper sculpture with urine verdigris patina, framed digital C-print, Image: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm); framed: 27 ¼ x 32 ¼ x 2 1/8 inches (69.22 x 81.92 x 5.4 cm), Sculpture: 2 x 7 ¼ x 2 ¼ inches (5.08 x 18.42 x 5.72 cm), Pedestal: 10 ½ x 10 ½ x 32 ½ inches (26.67 x 26.67 x 82.55 cm)

Source: janineantoni.net

“You Know,” Mary Jo Bang

You know, don’t you, what we’re doing here?
The evening laid out like a beach ball gone airless.

We’re watching the spectators in the bleachers.
The one in the blue shirt says, “I knew,

even as a child, that my mind was adding color
to the moment.”

The one in red says, “In the dream, there was a child
batting a ball back and forth. He was chanting

that awful rhyme about time that eventually ends
with the body making a metronome motion.”

By way of demonstration, he moves mechanically
side to side while making a clicking noise.

His friends look away. They all know
how a metronome goes. You and I continue to watch

because we have nothing better to do.
We wait for the inevitable next: we know the crowd

will rise to its feet when prompted and count—
one-one-hundred, two-one-hundred,

three-one-hundred—as if history were a sound
that could pry apart an ever-widening abyss

with a sea on the bottom. And it will go on like this.
The crowd will quiet when the sea reaches us.