1.24.2007

Shuijing in Studio



To all: Nice to be back amongst and amidst you...

It was one of those moments, talking with Shuijing, here in graduate school from the capital of China . Always a sense of the distant place she comes from, even as she makes such an earnest effort to communicate. (To make things objective, share in common.) Late afternoon, ninth floor of Wurster Hall, wide bank of windows to the south, looking out over misty winter rooftops of Berkeley and Oakland, backlit by the sun. Beautiful light. Desks still unsettled--not yet inhabited--it's just the beginning of the term. A rucksack, computer gear, pile of books and notes. Shadow opening on concrete wall--the new seismic pour--a burnished gray expanse, maybe four-feet thick, heavily reinforced... and within, another shadow, someone you almost know...

We were sitting and talking about her project in Beijing--to bring old forms into a world made entirely new... Raking light on wall just beyond, and the one curious non-Bauhaus arch... Pulled out my cell-phone camera, another kind of eye--like the story by the assistant of Joseph Cornell--riding with him on a bus once, somewhere in Queens, he noticed Cornell looking out the window and up into the sky--broad daylight, but the moon, quite visible, high above...

1 Comments:

Blogger Forrest said...

thanks Tony

the feeling is on both sides of the table

9:45 PM  

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