Photographic Artist’s Book: photograms, photographic prints including Sabattier effects (pseudosolarization).
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (for Wallace Stevens), 2018
Photographic artist’s book created in response to Wallace Stevens’ poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Among twenty snowy
mountains
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three
blackbirds.
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass
The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden
birds?
Do you not see how the
blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.
When the blackbird flew out of
sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bauds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
Kodak No. 2A Folding Autographic camera
If Wallace Stevens had a camera, it might have been this model.