TAXONOMY AND GRACE AND CLOUD ROOMS

Cloud Room / Bing Bu

The Cloud Room designed by Shanghai-based architect Bing Bu sits on the roof terrace of the National Art Museum of China, a historical landmark from the 1960’s in Beijing.

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STOREFRONT

When Vito Accondi and Steven Holl get together ...
Critical Futures Debate - The Storefront for Art and Architecture + Domus

PLACE AS A PAUSE

Untitled, Untitled and Untitled, from the "Place as a Pause" series, by Marika Asatiani.

'Place as a Pause' reminds me of a book I stumbled across on google books the other day: 'The Small Space of a Pause: Susan Howe's Poetry and the Spaces Between.' I'm hoping to get around to reading the majority of the work at some point. The author, Elizabeth Joyce, unwraps the 'space' of the poetry in such a lucid manner. The poem she has included on the opening page of her introduction is Untitled, 1976, and was previously unpublished. I am at odds as to why she has removed the dashes characteristic of Howe's work (and, for those who are familiar, extremely resonant of Emily Dickinson's punctuation). 

The small space

Of a pause

A haze

Blink into aching lost

Only words remain

If the print is available

The green of a city

A tumble of omens

In a western direction

Narrowing from side to side

Space as emptiness...

Is her theme

The whole page

Not just one part

Positive and negative space

Where?

Or sailed away

In the small space

Of endless possibility

Susan Howe

I am also enjoying one of Elisabeth W. Joyce's other works - Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde. More work by Marika after the break.