sphere
site-specific wall drawing presented at fried fruit gallery, wilmington NC
december 8, 2023 - january 7, 2024
sphere takes its title from a long poem by A.R. Ammons. I was already falling way into this poem before I knew that I had just moved to the same area of eastern NC where Ammons lived out his boyhood and, I have to imagine, where his conflicted vision of “the plenitude of nothingness!” was born.
“…but if I back off to take the shape of a tree
I gather blurs: when does water seeping into the roothairs
pass the boundary after which it is tree: the light, the
surrounding, penetrating, shading light, at what aural
remove from the actual leaf does light cease to be tree: or
do the tree boughs linger all the way into the sun: when
the leaves fall, as they are falling now in shoals of variable
intensities, when does the wind have them and the tree give
them up: is the high syrup invisible moving under, through…”
Installation / details
(click to zoom)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6416755ebc230cc28a53531dfe34b142cac1b89e0d3d41f7189ed3216fd4decf/sphere2.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65fe573ee0c2847138d26b0572630f4366232e419de2b393ff5c5bcb249c5501/sphere4.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de84f7fa5bc579a72ceefa79a997fc12d452e058d9ef80679c06f1615dc1155c/sphere7.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c93d5d60d32adeacc48b51dd4151d364ea9acebabfd9b6014acedf33427a794/sphere1.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a913e5112f4f9094f28f153abe7742001890d09fbb526945d83b3a49a6436eb/sphere6.jpeg)
Process
Un-process