
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, William Carlos Williams
You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, William Carlos Williams
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouth with myriad subtleties,
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but oh great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!


As if some little Arctic flower,
Upon the polar hem,
Went wandering down the latitudes,
Until it puzzled came
To continents of summer,
To firmaments of sun,
To strange, bright crowds of flowers,
And birds of foreign tongue!
I say, as if this little flower
To Eden wandered in —
What then? Why, nothing, only,
Your inference therefrom!
Sam Gilliam
Peter Schjeldahl on Gilliam’s Formalism, 2020.
Roundtable at Pace Gallery – Hickey, Martin, and Moten, via Zoom, 2020.


“Imagination, too, is old habit, assiduously maintained despite consequences.” EG
Cathreine Cattaruzza. Depuis 1992, elle poursuit un travail photographique sur Beyrouth. Fb video (at the Lebanese Pavilion-Venice Architecture 2018).