intervention statement: laredo 009
AMARIE BERGMAN
“there were
days of fire diversely separated marking lighting the duration shadow
a tree presided over the equilibrium of riches its leaves advanced
on invisible distances of time from green to brown a
veiled rhythm seizable solely by the blood by a diffuse vision by
something like the ubiquity of senses
the journey was still long of the sky in the sky where nomad
winds pitched tents light then dark and longer slower
was the slope of marked days
as if life sliding by had wanted to hold itself back add its signature
to the natural alternation to crease the downy cheek of childhood to reassure
to light up” [1]
[1] Jacques Roubaud, E (excerpt, final lines 1.1.17 o [GO 129]), 1995, translated by Katheryn McDonald http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/rift/rift04/roub0401.html
Gratitude to Paul MacGillivary for listening so patiently to my strategy along with the results of various wind/ light/ shadow preliminary tests. Many thanks to the unknown dear who abandoned a red hula hoop so I could have it to remember the obsession with mine when I was 8, channelling entrancement while imagining sunlit palm trees.
laredo 009
'Garden Island' verge / Bunbury, Western Australia
14 October 2023
images: https://www.amariebergman.com/gallery/images-laredo-009
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