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sculpture – in progress – by Holly Suzanne

On Form

 

as texture,

an enabling contact,

that if something matters

it will be

informed by us

when perceived

and then translated

 

the calla lilies

with their winding stems

and supple flowers;

each leg informs a dress

while the breast transforms the torso

 

as movement –

similarity,

exactly that comparison and difference

filling all the spaces

never empty

except we name them so;

 

your hands informed this clay,

transforming,

from state to state to state

like ice and steam and liquid

of the water as it matters,

now held within my gaze,

translating

hand to hand to hand

 

the I

devises language,

number, color, context

angle, pleasure, measure,

the shaping and the making

meaning each again

 

so a form is a relation

some object to another -

each as subject -

to encounter

and engage

 

we know

through what we handle

the forms

we apprehend

N Filbert 2012