orange.

In response to brians post about the hexagram for john cage. i wouldn't have thought of that image as being a poem, but since you said poem....that's how i'm supposed to read it? of course its just an image but homeboy saying "this is poetry" is a suggestion that we use our previous experiences with poetry to create the filter through which we recieve the 'information' contained within.

Let's look at another example of poetry that expresses a similar question.


carl andre poems in cases at the chinati foundation, marfa, tx.













so....is "orange" repeated in a square a poem? "anus" maybe more so?
are we supposed to see the orange?

i think carl andre's trick (andre's work is one of the cornerstones of mininmalism) here is that he's got these great poems but you're looking at them in the context of a giant facility devoted primarily to minimal sculpture. the combination of these elements (poetry and minimalist sculpture) does something interesting to your interperative faculties in trying to aprehend how to deal with the subject matter.

especially when you've got these two things that are all serious n' shit....minimalist sculpture...poetry....and there's a little square poem repeating...anusanusanusanusanus.
carl andre was acquited of charges that he pushed his wife Ana Mendieta (also an artist) out of their 34th floor apartment's window.