"Bent to the shape"
Sekula, Kline, Ignatow, Berssenbrugge, Roethke, Issa
The heart is a bit sad on all four corners, when it’s such a clear fall day in the middle of summer and all is wide open + you hear that… -- Sonja Sekula
"7-Levels" (1958), ink and watercolor on paper
You don't paint the way someone, by observing your life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to in order to give, that's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving. -- Franz Kline
"Black Reflections," 1959
David Ignatow:
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge:
Theodore Roethke:
Issa:
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