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Solocoptro (after decampos) / Torres, Edwin., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53727-642805

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Scope and Contents

This print was commissioned by the Telephone Journal for the exhibition at The EFA Foundation "Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited" from November 4 - December 17, 2011. [The Sackner Archive lent an original manuscript and limited edition works to this exhibition]. From the catalogue, the following citation was printed. "This piece is an homage to the mantras I read within de Campos's aesthetics"”where words transmute into each other as they roll over their own repetition"”creating breath within breath, an echo of language as it shape shifts past surface-meaning into base-origin, the primal sound underneath. I also wanted to walk in the minimalism of his graphic sensibility while inserting a charge of my own. His piece "CODIGO" spoke to me in its graphic vertigo. I read "GOD" in the letterforms, a circular oneness, a vortex that traps while liberating, perhaps my own illusions revealed. I went off on that tangent, designing the G-O-D letter forms into a circular logo and then writing the poem itself based on the process of that visual exploration. A maze of what might be considered amazing, to then get lost in that faith. Thereby affirming my personal dilemna, my continued polarity around human belief systems, like religion, like poetry." The text reads 'amazing god a maze in god amazing god a maze in god amazing god a maze in god amazing god a maze in god a maze in god a maze in god of age is god of aging god a face of god evasive god a gaze at aging made enraged a gaiting sage effaced in cage a saving grace a save in race a saving grace a save in race a gaze at aging made enraged a gaiting sage effaced in cage in all a civil all a sin of all a sinner wall is in of all a leader walls to be of all we see a wall to be of all we lead of all we bleed of all we bleed of all we bleed of all we bleed.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2011

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 print (ink jet color print, archival matte cover stock)) ; 72 x 56 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

flat files

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Hopewell Junction, New York : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Edwin Torres 2011 (l.r.- verso). Nationality of creator: American. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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