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Ancient Breathing / Lewty, Simon., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07655-7800

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Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The images read from bottom to top, move from earth to air, and then back again as a metaphor for breathing. A landscape signifies breathing of earth and a mandrake root "screams" when pulled fro the earth. A balloon man adapted from a Chinese Taoist illiustration of psychic breathing, hovers over the sea in a place where air is "worth breathing." The scroll contains automatic writing done as Lewty focused on the rhythm of his own breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1991

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 scroll (ink, paint, handwriting)) ; 26 x 244 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

scroll cabinet

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: Leamington Spa, England : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Simon Lewty (t.c.- verso). Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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