"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> In New York, of course, the "subway", when it extends to the boroughs, 
> becomes the "elevated".  When I ride off of Manhattan into Long Island 
> City I can look down onto many flat industrial rooftops  and see, 
> literally, fields of marsh grass growing out of the tar and waving in the 
> wind.  (The Day of the Triffids was another great take on this theme.)

Ah yes! I can see those roofs... It reminds us, I believe, that we are only 
passing things on this planet. Tolerated, insofar as we grew from the vast 
geosphere/biosphere. But only tolerated. We are transient beings here and 
nothing more.
>
> For my own part I have be working on some things sourced in the work of 
> Vija Celmins, especially her "spider web" messotints.  And so your 
> picture, and my train ride through the "Falls" area, brought me to this 
> sort of association too:
>




> And you, O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded, in 
> measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, 


> fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.


Thank you Jim. This is very appropriate and strangely familiar to my 
thoughts at the moment of conception of the image too. It was not purely 
hazard that I made it around the period of my 60th birthday. Period of 
meditation... So, your poem is going to form an integral part with the 
image, I'm afraid :-)
Vija Celmins: That's intriguing work she's making! Very subtle. I am very 
curious to see one day how this is inspiring you in your own field.

Thomas

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