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Tag: time

Harrison Street (3 GIFs)

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A summer art project: Sculpture, ‘The Cosmos’ created with youth. You are seeing half of the sculpture. Plaster gauze, rope, acrylic paint. Also balloons. I don’t know why exactly I superimposed this image over a photograph of Harrison Street. Perhaps curvilinear shapes address time. Or the shapes are somehow ancestral. Perhaps such ‘continual vegetal designs’ balance the angularity of buildings while adding human dimensions of roundness and multi-dimensionality. I don’t know. It just seemed the thing to do.

Theory

finally wthis is true w

Physics again standing on its head

Physicists discovering an upside – down world

perhaps this wshe was w

The elementary particles comprising stars can leap

It seems

Across time (if there really is time) reappearing

And appearing in numerous locations at once

new star

The simultaneous stars stretching across infinity

Are one and the same

Projections of one star

multicoloured wfaded w

One star only we see here and there

As if altering as if shadowing our days and years

With a spectacularly aloof performance

deer what w

Like the lover

You just can’t forget

her face wbyzantinian

Previously published in my fourth book of poetry Hierarchy of Loss (Ekstasis Editions 2007)

and ink sketch

 Digital art based on an ink sketch in my moleskin sketchbook.

traces

Transfiguration by Steven McCabe

A butterfly wing

Grazes your cheek

Travelling

Two thousand years

Per second.

My latest video poem (or film poem if you prefer). We originally filmed and recorded the drumming over two years ago for a different project which never saw the light of day. In the meantime I become interested in juxtaposing silent footage with live action. I realized we could use silent movie title cards for the poetry and not compete with the sound of drumming. The poem Transfiguration was originally published in my 1999 collection Radio Picasso (watershedBooks). My poetry videos can be found @ http://www.youtube.com/mccabesteven