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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
from Minor Traveler
The cure is a monocle.
Under tiers of the opera, crowned with a serious light
and the swansdown, that everybody said, but here
its lightness urges, bewitched, perhaps not.
The gold line is fine, as is the steal, but mention
bananas and the girders crumble too eager to show
what they're made of, show off the sessions
and sessions of internal rhyme,
too easily to climb.
We flowers fade, happy, at sunset.
– John Ashbery, published in New American Writing, Spring 1990
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Corridors 1994 transparency in lightbox Tate Gallery |
At Night Before Spring
Two nights before the equinox that will
turn into spring in the dark the next time
before the last spring in a thousand years
as we count them I find myself looking
at the transparent indigo humor
that we call the night back in the daytime
and I see beyond acceleration
each of the lights complete in its own time
in the stillness of motion the stillness
with no beginning all in one moment
a friend beside me whom I do not see
without words making it come clear to me
the youth of heaven the ages of light
each of them whole in the unmoving blue
each with its number known in the unknown
each with its only self in the one eye
even as I watch it we are passing
the numbers are rising as I am told
they will rise and it will be spring again
it seems that I have forgotten nothing
I believe I have not lost anyone
– W.S. Merwin, from The Pupil (Knopf, 2001)
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| Catherine Yass Northwest C4 2001 digital print on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Northwest C6 2001 digital print on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Northwest D2 2001 digital print on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Northwest D6 2001 digital print on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Northwest F3 2001 digital print on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Catherine Yass Northwest F6 2001 digital print on paper Tate Gallery |