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«If you measure me with cries and butterflies / You'll find me bigger than my cage / And yet, tell me, how is it that there's room for me in here?» Ο.Α.

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«Ἄν μὲ μετρὴσεις μὲ φωνὲς καὶ πεταλοῦδες / Θὰ μ’ εὕρεις πιὸ μεγάλο ἀπ’ τὸ κλουβί μου / Κι ὡστόσω, πὲς μου, πῶς χωρῶ ἐδῶ μέσα;» Ο.Α.

Oil and indelible marker pen on glass-fibre canvas

Height:

36 inches

Width:

47 inches

Caregory:

THE LAW OF THREE

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«It is only that the waters were abruptly withdrawn / and immured in a safe square. / - A crossword for resourceful solvers / they told me / and, what is more, if you are lucky / you may for a length of time / escape the little black box.» E.A.L.
«What I haven't cured, this / defines me./ And the desolation is spacious / and the night shining with tears / and love is at a downward angle, so / the meanings slide » Ε.Α.L.
«Now with a pencil / (or with your imagination) / see to it / that a dew settles on these things, / because with a plain single stroke / my sadness is beyond description.» Κ. D.
«Dreaming means / hearing a thousand yeses singing / from the throat of no. » Κ.D.
«Torn up papers with words never heard before / haunted with a phosphoresent glow the dead body / of love / no, no, the defection to the life parched of water / was announced orally / something else must have been written...» Ε.Α.L.
«That's fine and natural, that is. / That I should have to put on glasses / to be able to see / the things that are glaringly obvious.» Κ.D.
«If you measure me with cries and butterflies / You'll find me bigger than my cage / And yet, tell me, how is it that there's room for me in here?» Ο.Α.
«And then, I didn't grow accustomed. / One day I will take myself in my arms to comfort me / so lightly dressed I was born » Ε.Α.L
«I borrowed an anigma / and enigma I returned. / The solution to a yesterday / I left unresolved / one thing depends on it, / the enigma of the asymptotes. » Κ.D.
«Treasures which are effigies of a useless moment / of lightning flash / which the poem threw out / and a quiet retreat of people and sky» K.D.
"My Soul/ springing up into the vastness/ My Body/ rendering your earth" O.A.
«Listen to the echo / not the sound / Look at the shadow / not the body» Ο.Α.
«You wore me, I wore you, / choice of a single dress for every day » Κ.D.
«In the meantime the green door / does not lead to the lesson at the Conservatoire» E.A.L.
«but to a table in an operating-theatre / where nostalgia carves up more deeply / than the unforeseen» Ε.Α.L.
«Again the past / dawns within me / again destiny / snows before me» Ο.Α.
«Spring/ and the soil frolics / Spring and the bodies / remember» Ο.Α.
«Yes / I am of the flow / of the waters / look / and again in the depths / I am in the making» Ο.Α.
«Memory is what I collect / memory and silence / sour nourishment / for the harsh winter» Ο.Α.
«The only credible witness that we have lived / is our absence.» K.D.
«A little poem. And if - God forbid- / in the end there isn't enough oxygen / console yourself by saying that at least it escaped / that lost foot-slog / that great bearfoot Don Quixotics / got in the neck.» Κ.D.