Ancient Breathing / Lewty, Simon., 1991
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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
- Lewty, Simon (Person)
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.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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