The View from the Bottom of the Well

I cannot concentrate on the “hear” and now. I cannot concentrate on the here and now. On you. I cannot concentrate on the here and now, be concentrique. You cannot concentrate on the “hear” and now. You are not looking at me. Your eyes are trembling. You are trembling. Your gaze is nowhere. Your hands are trembling, your legs are cold, and your eyes are trembling more and more. I want to concentrate on your fearful face because I feel you trying to escape, to get into orbit, and to leave, but there is nowhere to go.

I cannot concentrate because I just hate it, anywhere but here. Is it fear? Fear of what? I am not actively or passively fearful, I am as tight as a knot and as hard as stone. I kn ...

1996

Portfolio with 9 drypoints

21.6 x 15.8cm

529.1996.1-9

Image © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY, 2019
Text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019