A Song For Rudy Burckhardt and a Song of Fire: The Towers (9/11)

David Shapiro

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up poetry.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up cities like bags of leaves.

“5WTC, II”, mixed media collage on paper mounted on canvas, 14″ x 10″, 1998.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up an architecture.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered one red orange sexual flower.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered the bus and the passengers.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up our friend.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered his clear water-towers, his windows and his door.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up the word poetry.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up the snow and a house within.

And
so the snow fell

And
fell on his fallen leaves.

And
oh the snow fell

And
covered up his photographs of snow.

And
so the snow fell

And
covered up even passing clouds.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up poetry.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up cities like bags of leaves.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up an architecture.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered one red orange sexual flower.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered the bus and the passengers.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up our friends.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered the clear water-towers, the windows and the door.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up the word poetry.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up the fire and a house within.

And
so the fire fell

And
fell on their fallen leaves.

And
oh the fire fell

And
covered up their photographs of fire.

And
so the fire fell

And
covered up even passing clouds.

Title:
The Art of Pamela Lawton: In Memory of Architecture

Writer:
David Shapiro

The

art of Pamela Lawton is audacious and learned, a synthesis that at once makes
her work seem extremely elegant and yet keeps it inexhaustible and troubling.
The truth is, as she has conjured up, her childhood was one of intent drawing
and full of music, and she trained herself in modern models by her early youth.
She is a fine draughtsman, but she has also learned to constrain mere facility,
which no longer dazzles her. She is always committed to vigilance and
observation sur le motif, but she can make these observations while carving a
face through staves, collaging a mystique with pools of color, or easing a
contour as much as building up a Paradise. Thus, her work alludes
simultaneously to water and light, to architecture and landscape, and to the
stress of modern glass where it erupts in shadow-play like a Javanese masque.

A Song For Rudy Burckhardt and a Song of Fire: The Towers (9/11) – David Shapiro

A Song For Rudy Burckhardt and a Song of Fire: The Towers (9/11)