Thursday, April 21, 2011

Robert Duncan: the pebble that dropped into that quiet as a pool broke up


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Amouniala Falls near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo: photo by Ad Meskens, July 1989




In the shuttle flying under the swift sense of the work, the "incident here and there" gathers so many instances from themselves into a moving significance, unfolding or discovering a design, that we see now the art was to set things into movement, was not only the weaving of a work of art but as if each knot that bound the whole into the quiet of a unity were also the pebble that dropped into that quiet as a pool broke up, was knot but also slipping-of-the-knot, to set up an activity thruout in the work of time and space within time and space.




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Tropical Rainforest, Tioman: photo by Gregorik, 29 October 2009
Robert Duncan: from A Day Book (aka The H.D. Book), 1959-1964